Sentence examples for human edifice from inspiring English sources
"One Run Elmer" (1935) finds Keaton in another lunar landscape, his tiny gas station the only human edifice in an unbounded desert.
Reichert: The Human Edifice, by Mel Gooding (Artmedia Press, £14.95) Marcus Reichert is a well-known film-maker and painter as well as a novelist and photographer.
Crystal will be more aware of just how much she has depended on the structure that the Church provides, and the world will be scarier now that she's seen how human an edifice it is.
But when hatred festers in human hearts, no edifice of brick or steel will subdue it.
The towering edifice of human cultural evolution would topple.
But if you want to effect a breach in that stolid edifice the human personality I think it helps to cultivate this Kierkegaardian sense of defenselessness.
Fichte gave a practical or voluntarist cast to the formula cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"), which Descartes had proposed as the bedrock of certainty on which the edifice of human knowledge could be constructed.
He knew that Jim Crow, like slavery before it, was an edifice to human greed.
Here in the UK, threats by a previous Conservative government to ignore a controversial judgment on the killing of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar did not materialise; all past UK governments have realised that what is at stake is the entire edifice of postwar human rights protection across Europe.
The entire thing is an edifice to callous human folly, to how bad things could have been, and in many ways could still be.
