Sentence examples for edifice of time from inspiring English sources

Who can forget Mr Banks's classic midlife lament: 'A man has dreams of walking with giants To carve his niche in the edifice of time.

The greater the edifice, the greater the shadow it casts – and the internet is the greatest edifice of our time.

Other features of the precinct included a broad road flanked with votive offerings and the precinct of Artemis, with three temples superimposed on one another, perhaps the oldest edifice of pre-Hellenic times.

Each year astronomers bring down from their heights more views of the awesome cosmic edifice stretching in all directions out to the beginning of time.

The Mayan temples were originally as ornate as any neoclassical edifice in Europe, but they've since been stripped down to their essential form by wars, looting, and the passage of time.

These sketches testifyto collapsing arrangements whose underlying edifice is time.

Throughout that time, however, outside the august stone edifice of South Africa House on London's Trafalgar Square, there were demonstrators, daily gathered, stubbornly calling for apartheid to end.

Mr. Saillard said he chose her because of that ability, and because her appearance — her white skin and hair — while striking, can also, at times, be as plain as beige, like the edifice of a museum.