Sentence examples for less edifice from inspiring English sources

There's a motto in Latin somewhere for this: less edifice — more education.

That imperial edifice was less about race than about class and status, he insists.

But the edifice is less formidable than it seems, in part because of the nation's costly and unique military role.

Therefore, we concluded the phreatomagmatic explosions creating volcanic edifices are less likely origins of the mounds in the basin.

And not just the north and south buildings but also the adjacent 7 World Trade Center, a smaller edifice, suffering much less damage, that collapsed in an identical manner but received far less coverage from -- what's the phrase I'm looking for?

The movie's house of mischief, St. Mathilda's School, is an imposing edifice only somewhat less forbidding than the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane in "Shutter Island".

Organized labor loved him for his edifice complex; critics were less kind toward the folie de grandeur of Albany's South Mall and the World Trade Center's twin towers, mockingly christened Nelson and David (after Rockefeller's brother).

The algorithm overcomes the principal limitations of a stand-alone closed-contouring approach and provides improved estimates of edifice size that are less sensitive to topographic gradients and the choice of contour search interval.

But the gallery plunged bravely ahead, and this week its new, eight-story Foster + Partners-designed edifice opened with a less-than-dazzling exhibition of paintings by the Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca.

Not least for the reasons stated above, but also because the new architecture may well be less photogenic or media friendly than the edifices of the ageing star architects.

Acid dispersion is an indication of eventual collapse-prone sectors of a volcanic edifice, but the presence of a less extreme hydrothermal system can already be sufficient to cause massive edifice collapse (López and Williams [1993]; Reid [2004]).