Sentence examples for monolithic authority from inspiring English sources

Poems like his "Black Tambourine" have the monolithic authority of Cycladic sculpture.

The Renaissance rediscovered much of Classical culture and revived the notion of humans as creative beings, and the Reformation, more directly but in the long run no less effectively, challenged the monolithic authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

White's supposed "mystic trivia" turns out not to have been the problem; its monolithic authority was, pushing everything else aside.

Now that the revolution is over, the battle no longer pits a loose-knit group of saboteurs against a monolithic authority.

Cosima's an excellent example of how the show treats science: In the world of "Orphan Black," it's not purely a threat or a monolithic authority or a precise tool.

There are simply poisonous little men and women who build cages in the night for the people who remember how to think and laugh, and they stack those cages into great black iron walls of monolithic, truthless authority.

A divided decision, Judge Learned Hand wrote in 1958, "cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends".

Monolithic, of course, implies religious authorities enforcing the party line, primarily the "heresy hunters" of early Christianity, as they are branded by scholars like Dr. Meyer and Dr. Pagels, but maybe even the Sunday school teachers of today.

Lambeth council's budget has been sharply cut since the financial crisis, forcing the local authority to question its monolithic role.

Margaret McGirr Greenwich, Conn., June 13 , 2008To the Editor: The mainstream media appear so monolithic these days, and claim such authority over such a wide spectrum of issues, that there appears to be no room for disagreement with them.

By the end of the war the monolithic moral certainty and blind faith in authority that defined "Crime Does Not Pay" in its initial episodes had begun to decay, and the last few films find the series drifting into the ambivalence and unease of film noir.