Sentence examples for edifice complex from inspiring English sources

"It's the house of somebody with an edifice complex.

Livingstone's towers answer to his curious edifice complex.

In light of this analysis, the Paulsons clearly have an edifice complex.

As with Livingstone, power seized him in the grip of an edifice complex.

When University of California officials resisted, he said that they had an "edifice complex".

Or were they monuments to herself, the manifestations of a condition that one commentator wryly describes as "an edifice complex"?

❦ I am a child of two cities with markedly different edifice complexes.

Louis B. Cushman, chief executive of Cushman Realty in Houston, who knows both father and son, said, "Jeff Hines has helped take the business in new directions now that the days of building so-called edifice complexes or corporate monuments are over".

Architecture refers to the design and construction of individual buildings, bridges, monuments, towers, and similar edifices as well as integrated building complexes.

Politically though, May is personally associated with the complex edifice of the Chequers deal, for which she lost two cabinet ministers.

Mr. Potter gave that one an unaccompanied tenor prelude in the spirit of Michael Brecker, starting sparse and gradually constructing a complex edifice, phrase by knotty phrase.