Sentence examples for substantial edifice from inspiring English sources
Two writers this century have already tried to raise a substantial edifice on these flimsy foundations: but the biographies of Wilbur Cross and F Holmes Dudden are likely to be superseded by this new effort which not only draws on more than 40 newly discovered letters, but even includes three hitherto uncollected pictures of Fielding (not very exciting ones, it has to be said).
John Kerry is trying to build a solid edifice without tools.
Furthermore, a foundation of knowledge and justified belief restricted to infallible beliefs (as defined above) would arguably be far too flimsy to support any sort of substantial epistemic edifice.
I don't know Hollywood well enough to know just how seriously it takes itself — quite, I'm sure — but I suspect that the daily business of manufacturing spectacle forces one to countenance the inseparability of power and the performance of power — if not to go one step further and understand power as never more than a two-dimensional edifice, as substantial as Main Street in a Spaghetti Western.
The edifice has virtually collapsed, but the foundations are solid.
Such accumulation of water on a steep-sided edifice without evidence for a subaerial crater lake, along with lava flow features indicating confinement, suggest that a substantial summit glacier was responsible for the production and retention of water, and the architecture of these deposits.
Today Corcoran's edifice is the Renwick Gallery.
But the whole edifice now looks rickety.
The edifice is a kind of greenhouse.
Temple, edifice constructed for religious worship.
