Sentence examples for of edifice from inspiring English sources

It seems a suitably non-denominational choice of edifice for a book about America's cultural plurality.

No matter the subject, then, Cyarron looks to interrogate the notion of edifice.

IT'S an odd sort of deal, but then Belfast's devolved administration is an odd sort of edifice.

But his goddess gowns are also the kind of edifice — aloof yet intimate, a shrine to feminine mysteries — that you have to experience in three dimensions.

Today 9/11 carries so many burdens — of interpretation, of sentimentality, of politics, of war — that sometimes it's hard to find the rubble of the actual event beneath the layers of edifice we've built on top of it.

Given the city's diversity, arts leaders say it can nourish and support a wide variety of organizations — and their new buildings — provided that those buildings have a purpose other than satisfying some kind of edifice complex.

And thus was born a new craft among the brick makers, the craft of building edifices from bricks or, as some liked to call it, Meta-brick making".

"The Birth of a Nation" became part of the edifice of the Jim Crow regime of legalized segregation that would last for the next forty years.

This "mother ship", the costs of which are rumoured to have escalated beyond $5 billion, will be two-thirds the size of the Pentagon and capable of housing more than 12,000 people when it opens next year.There has not been such a flurry of edifice-building in the Valley since the glory days of the dotcom boom in the late 1990s.

Building envelope structures play a pivotal role in the energy behavior of edifices.

The moment we mastered the methods of safe erection of edifices, the problem of useable and aesthetic quality emerged.