Sentence examples for great edifice of from inspiring English sources

The great edifice of la cuisine française is crumbling.

A related difficulty is that open-minded observers will want to know why buffoonish impostors can pose such a threat to the great edifice of science.

"Fear Itself," Ira Katznelson's revisionist study of the New Deal, shows how the great edifice of American social democracy, passed with the support of Southern Democrats, rested on and upheld the color line.

It may say something about the shortcomings of Ascot's great edifice of a grandstand that the 80,000 who watched Black Caviar in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes could not generate the same atmosphere as 32,000 at Town Moor.

In its quiet, understated way, the poem reminds us of the aboriginal human substratum on which the great edifice of American liberty was built and how that indigenous culture was lost in the process of building.

At the heart of this issue, is not just Labour's great edifice of health and safety bureaucrats, but an essential love of control – a desire that nothing spontaneous should occur without some podgy, milk-faced martinet ensuring that the artist knows that he or she is allowed to perform only at the indulgence of the state.

Houses on its west side, near the tonier suburbs of Clayton and Ladue, are great edifices of brick and stucco set on grand, sloping lawns and costing into the millions of dollars.

And so it went on throughout the middle ages and beyond: the great edifices of the gothic master-builders fell or burned down, were neglected or dismembered, suffered undignified "improvements".

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

Llwyd described the church in 1833 as "a small but neat edifice, of great antiquity".

"He didn't want to put up a great edifice for the glorification of his name.