Sentence examples for constructed edifice from inspiring English sources

Saying the actual lines was a final touch applied to an already elaborately constructed edifice.

In 2010 The Secret Garden Party will be prizing open the chinks in man's most carefully constructed edifice; Reality.

As soon as proceedings got under way on Saturday, the carefully constructed edifice swiftly began to collapse.

Their ruling described contract penalty clauses as "an ancient, haphazardly constructed edifice which has not weathered well".

But most analysts (they're indefatigable) agreed that Obama's speech, and the carefully constructed edifice of public diplomacy of which it was the keystone, was a factor in the outcome.

From his opening meditation on the single phrase with which Leonardo breaks off a page of geometrical annotations, "because the soup is getting cold", Nicholl proceeds to build a painstakingly constructed edifice of possibilities: "It tells us a great deal: that Leonardo ate a bowl of lukewarm soup on a day in 1518 hardly qualifies as an important piece of biographical data.

Museums self constructed edifices for Piano, Pei, Gehry, Meier and others, with impressive housing, innards vacant, airy and cold, contents purely incidental.

These articles tend to focus on newly constructed edifices, but buildings, like life, are affected by entropy.

When reminded that the ultimate goal was edifices, not bricks, they replied that, if enough bricks were available, the builders would be able to select what was necessary and still continue to construct edifices". 1 "It became difficult to find the proper bricks for a task because one had to hunt among so many.

Tax credits cuts may yet be the policy that sees Osborne's carefully constructed political edifice start to crumble.

In five years they had constructed the edifice, and it stands today as one of the major monuments of architectural history.