Sentence examples for edifices from inspiring English sources

The Qatari and Chinese edifices about to rise along the banks of the Thames are pastiches of the Gulf economy.

These edifices of sound – though disturbingly dissonant for an audience in 1913 – are chosen with impeccable refinement, and they underpin the score's complete arc with a structural surety on an almost Beethovenian level.

In the 80s, the edifices of the second world war seemed as legible to me as the promise of a European future.

These do not, however, resemble the community edifices that one finds in more established neighbourhoods.

Some critics of the project, including the German Bundesbank, argued that the single currency would not work without it.But Maastricht, like many edifices, did not end up quite as the architects had wanted.

He stayed on in the army after the war until 1967 when he worked part time for Robert Fleming, a merchant bank with family connections.In his army days he had bought a house in Oxfordshire, and preferred it to the edifices he eventually inherited in 1975 as duke of Norfolk, particularly Arundel Castle in Sussex, the ducal seat, nearly 1,000 years old, brimming with history, but mostly comfortless.

At the bottom end of the market, that means sheds with beds; at the top end, "iceberg houses", the term for properties whose owners have constructed great edifices below ground to get as much living space as possible on their exorbitant little patch.Foreigners buying for investment, along with the difficulty of getting mortgages these days, have boosted the private rented sector.

The sudden and unexpected failure of the body is a shocking catastrophe that threatens the flimsy edifice we call the "self", with a corresponding strain on intimacy.

Isn't it time to give up on the whole lousy edifice?

After a description of the hotel's interior, Gautier arrives in a room where "several human shapes were stirring about a table, and as soon as the light reached me and I was recognised, a vigorous shout shook the sonorous depths of the ancient edifice.

Moving down and through the old town centre, the impression of a European capital is maintained: the bustling Mercado Central, where I foolishly chewed on a piece of pulpo (octopus) to impress the locals; the Plaza de la Libertad; and the imposing edifice of La Moneda.