Sentence examples for impressive edifice. from inspiring English sources

Inevitably, however, its impressive edifice began to crumble.

When this impressive edifice of brick and green glazed tile opened in 1936, the local paper called it the "swankest of swank eating places".

"It's an impressive edifice, no question," Mary A. Bohen, a neighbor and member of the center, said of the $79 million building.

The shrinking leadership of the Islamic Republic is increasingly finding itself in the same place as the masters of the Soviet Union, resting its power on a seemingly impressive edifice of terror that is likely to prove just as unreliable and unsteady.

Few thinkers have built such an impressive edifice of logic and evidence upon such a thin foundation of speculation.

And he took it for granted that I would find the impressive edifice and music itself a satisfactory recompense for my troubles.

The established churches were impressive edifices and the ministers men of great "magnetism".

Support has come from the Saudi government; the royal family; Saudi charities; and Saudi-sponsored organizations including the World Muslim League, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth and the International Islamic Relief Organization, providing the hardware of impressive edifices and the software of preaching and teaching.

The more impressive the edifice you'd like to build, the more important a stable base becomes.

According to Catholic teaching, the office was created when Christ named the apostle Peter the first leader of the Church, saying, in a pun on the Greek meaning of Peter's name, "Upon this rock will I build my church". The more impressive the edifice you'd like to build, the more important a stable base becomes.

The structure that Norberg-Schulz has fashioned is surely one of the most impressive intellectual edifices that any architect has ever produced.