Today, in an age when France no longer has compulsory military service, and when, as here, society is large and complex and there's no one Tower of Babel being built but dozens or hundreds, each group of speakers of a given language, be it small or large, can, in effect, build a tower of their own.
By pondering Babel's stories, Trilling avowed, the reader builds an inner political decency.
Wobbly beats build upward, stretching Babel-like to the EDM gods above, before tumbling into a sweaty electro maelstrom.
You're supposed to build the Tower of Babel before God knocks it down.
Genesis claims that these Jews went on to build the Tower of Babel, although there is no physical evidence of its existence (or of the Hanging Gardens, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world).
This was not by divine will, for "when they began to build the tower [of Babel] it was by human counsel, not by divine — indeed God was not pleased".
It was a Babel of voices.
We ate amid a babel of laughter.
The land, he said, "must not become a Babel of languages as she is a Babel of religions".
Democrats' campaign message mostly is a Babel of individual voices.
The film set is a Babel of voices and accents.
