Instead you'll find thousands of much humbler structures, characterized by simplicity, functionality and what-you-see-is-what-you-get directness.
Mr. DeCarava (pronounced dee-cuh-RAV-ah) told Charlie Rose in a televised interview in 1996 that photography was an ideal way to get at the directness he desired from art.
And, meeting Bacall, what you get is precisely this directness.
Kevin isn't a dickhead because he's just very direct, and sometimes when he crashes between a meek couple whose adult son has left home and now they find themselves with £1.2 million and a hole in their lives that can't be filled by anything but excessively complex concrete-based construction work, that directness gets mistranslated a little along the way, comes out as dickheadishness.
Watch Siegmund and Sieglinde's terrified flight from Hunding from 2 00 27 onwards to get a sense of the physicality, emotional directness and compassion that characterises the whole thing.
The edges and corners of Roger's personality can make him hard to take, but Florence's combination of hesitancy and directness make Florence hard to get a handle on.
"So there was a bit of directness applied; come down here, get the result and concentrate on performance.
I love the directness of course with the audience - sometimes I get a little scared, because it's so close to people... it has almost a spiritual realm but the directness of it is fantastic because you really see every moment of emotion.
"Rolling Log Blues," from the compilation CD A Richer Tradition--Country Blues & String Band Music, 1923-1937 has that sincere vinyl directness and honesty of having only one take to get it right.
In a soft, lyrical voice, Margaret speaks from across the centuries with an emotional directness that gets inside your head.
Egyptian society values hospitality and personal honor over precision and directness; there is a kind of emotional camouflage that Egyptians wear to get through their days.
