Sentence examples for edifice which from inspiring English sources

Sebald understands that a life is an edifice, which we build partly to hide its foundations.

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

Visit to the U.N. Secretariat Bldg., a 39-story edifice, which will be finished by Jan .'51; other bldgs.

In 1931, one writer described "the money-eating" St. John the Divine as "that hungry edifice which swallows a million dollars as a hippo engulfs a peanut".

The Kierkegaard show, however, occupies a basement gallery in the 1999 extension to the 1906 edifice, which is known as the "Black Diamond".

Walter Reed is a vast campus of red brick buildings in north-central Washington; its centerpiece is the main hospital, a gigantic edifice, which opened in 1977.

The letters forming the last name of postmodern architect Michael Graves become fanciful edifices, which echo the patterns and textures found in Graves's buildings.

The Victorians were proud of their town halls; cities such as Manchester and Leeds commissioned imposing edifices which reflected the affluence of the industrial age.

Together again, Adam and Eve drive around the spookily deserted Detroit, admiring the crumbling industrial edifices which are so beloved of "ruin porn" photographers, and which make the city such an inspired setting for a vampire film.

In the first game in the series, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, the vampire Kain embarks on a journey to restore the Pillars of Nosgoth nine supernatural edifices which are inextricably tied to the health of the land, but become corrupted.

But the scientists wrote that one set of studies on a single species was "not a sufficient edifice on which to build a regulary assessment".