It is an edifice, a genuine edifice, a handsome, Roman Revival, white terra-cotta edifice, and it isn't really very old; it was put up during the upsurge of architectural grandiosity in Brooklyn in the early nineteen-hundreds.
It was an edifice with true cinematic potential, as terrifying as the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" or the Dakota apartment building in "Rosemary's Baby".
But Laporta also won a treble in 2009 and claims to have laid the foundations for this success, too, the true architect of an edifice he says is actually being torn down.
Truer to the imperial edifice was the sentiment of one of its towering figures, Lord Curzon (viceroy of India, foreign secretary), who thought of race consciousness as a lower-class attribute.
"An edifice in ruins, it is true, but so tall, so solemn, so dominant of that strange lonely landscape, so out of place in that land of adobe box huts, as to be simply overpowering," was how Charles F. Lummis described Quarai in "The Land of Poco Tiempo" in 1893.
Wolfgang Schäuble was therefore not wrong to present the future election of the president of the European Council through universal suffrage as a "true revolution" that will confer on the new edifice a halo of democracy – only the revolution is already underway, or at least it has been sketched out.
The philosopher thought he had succeeded not in overturning the true faith but in protecting it from the crumbling edifice of ancient natural science.
True to her Peronist ideals, it is an ambitious nation-building, job-creating edifice.
24 Hardman Street, 0151 709 2400, buyers-club.co.uk Tucked into the unpromising concrete and glass edifice of Beetham Plaza, Etsu serves Japanese food which sings with clean, true flavours.
All social distinctions vanish in the world of the billionaires and each one can exist as a true individual unburdened by the economic and social constraints of the crumbling Enlightenment edifices bearing down on the rest of us.
