Sentence examples for massive edifices from inspiring English sources
The play of light on these massive edifices – not always perfectly on cue, but that will come – gives these sets a febrile, ever-changing vitality.
Parma, 20 miles away from downtown, is defined by auto factories: massive edifices to another era that now sit mostly idle.
The city boasts 1,500 churches in every possible architectural form, from elongated white buildings bearing the Chinese character that means love to squat grey brick ones to massive edifices in fake freestone with domes and colonnades.
These massive edifices began rising in the 1890s, each one claiming the "tallest building" crown and then giving way to a successor as the world's first skyline grew until it stretched like the Himalayas across the length of Manhattan.
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Structurally, it is a massive edifice built out of variations on a theme.
"It's as if there is this massive edifice of pretense with respect to how mortgage loans have been recorded all across the country and that edifice is creaking and groaning," said Christopher L. Peterson, a law professor at the University of Utah.
Schon and DiMauro look past the massive edifice of the Human Genome Initiative's 3 billion base pairs to the few tens of thousands of base pairs that make up the genome of a mitochondrion.
Nearly $200 million of the casino's profits went into the museum complex, a massive edifice of stone and glass designed by the New York firm of James Polshek & Partners, which opened in 1998.
I'm interested in the tensions between pageantry and private faith, between selflessness and ego, between belief and doubt, between the human and the divine, the transcendent and the mundane, between the individual and the massive edifice of the Church, between humility and power, violence and love.
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]).
