Sentence examples for behind the edifice from inspiring English sources
The dissonance between rebuilt beachfronts and devastated housing can make it seem like a Hollywood Western town where there is little behind the edifice on main street.
As his widow grapples with the mess he has left behind, his children begin to question the edifice on which their own beliefs are based.
Preparation for the 2012 European football championships, to be held jointly with Ukraine, has swelled Polish pride (a huge new national stadium, pictured, rises on the Warsaw skyline like the mother ship from a science-fiction novel).But behind this cheery façade the edifice is creaking.
"Ein Deutsches Haus" actually serves as a visual monograph of Lagerfeld himself: recognizably literate, playfully structured to expose the warm interior behind the blunt edifice.
Hollywood showbiz is about the now and the new, so there is something subversive about Gondry pitching his tent in the wasteground of obsolescence behind the gleaming edifice of modernity.
The edifice is a kind of greenhouse.
But then, the edifice came tumbling down.
The edifice has virtually collapsed, but the foundations are solid.
A group of town houses hidden behind a unified facade of concrete and glass in formerly industrial Dumbo has some calling the edifice a future landmark — and others saying it's reminiscent of a 1970s-era office building.
Then, in late 1942, the edifice began to topple.
