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Sentence Examples When gas from the magma chamber has been exhausted, the lava erupts more quietly to form a broader and lower edifice, a shield volcano. There has been no acknowledgment of the mistaken assumptions on which the modern edifice rests. It is clear that Wilfred's builders made no effort to quarry fresh stone for this edifice. The relative ease with which the Stalinist edifice began to crumble after 1989 caught most observers off-guard. A heated glass room and observation deck crown the edifice, which has already achieved iconic status among kayakers in the region. The prince thus formed the capstone on the edifice of privilege, the ultimate guarantor of the social hierarchy. Bourges and Normandy offer some striking examples of the way in which stained glass can magnify the structural disposition of an edifice. The stately three-storey Georgian edifice agleam with intricate furniture comes complete with the ghost of former mistress Annie Palmer. Fully exposed to the elements, this crumbling edifice was his training grounds. Unceremoniously, some number of thugs dragged me into an edifice and roughly seated me in a slight wooden chair. Dismantle, annihilate and devastate the whole swelling, putrescent edifice of surfing once and for all. The beach is deserted but for a stubborn few, and this Soviet edifice is now but a window to a bygone era. An unnamed employee in the building told the news agency Efe the blast was so powerful it shook the edifice and felt like an earthquake. Camp was set up in short order and soon a blazing fire lit the face of the edifice in a ruddy, wavering light. A long, black, steel gate positioned upfront served as the only entrance into the large, theater-looking edifice. The annual Budget is a natural process of continuation of financial policies, and it should build upon the edifice that exists already. The handsome edifice has such Federal style adornments as stone lintels over the windows and a cornice with mutules and cable molding. It is crumbling worldwide like a white ant infested edifice along with its credibility. As his voice resonated, mingling with the call of a distant koel, the mystery of the majestic edifice stood out. Emphasis is taken from the towering edifice and transferred to the ledges, curbs, benches and other ground-level surfaces that surround it. Show More Sentences We infer that this fluting represents a lithological unit, perhaps a lava flow, within the flanks of the edifice. But as any who read or reread those essays will know, a huge depth of learning, often from the archives, underpinned the edifice of argument. A third of the original edifice was removed, mainly from the southern part, leaving exposed a hydrothermally altered core. They rebuilt the old basilica into a grand, very flamboyant Gothic edifice. However, it is only the northern flank of this ancestral edifice that remains. Ritual, law, and taboo are nothing but the institutional edifice of sclerotic priests. Every stone of the edifice was marked with a rune, coursing with magical strength. The presence of faults within the edifice of the volcano may influence the transport and degassing of the magma. We have built a whole superstructure, a constitutional edifice, on that basis. It was a comfortable looking edifice in the Palladian style, built of dressed stone that shone warmly in the late afternoon sun. The vote to proceed in undue haste looks like an 11th hour bid by the outgoing Councillors to build an edifice to their term of office. And without that, the whole edifice subsides, slowly but inexorably, into the silt. The police station is a Korean War Quonset hut, staple of the 1950s, a provisional edifice originally used as a war bunker. How can we raise a secure and objective historiographical edifice on such flimsy foundations? Surrounded by water on all sides, the edifice is 11 stories high but also goes 18 metres below sea level. But Isabella was intuitively convinced of a distinct lack of life within the ancient stone edifice. It is an imposing edifice, a mock temple based on the classical Greek model, with a fine pediment and no fewer than six columns. It serves as the local church now, and it's a little disconcerting to see the homely parish notices posted up in such an imposing edifice. They both paused in front of the magnificent edifice in which they worked before Jack got the door. The imposing Victorian edifice on North Bridge in Edinburgh which once housed the capital's daily newspapers is now making news in its own right. Show More Sentences On the far side of the crumbling brick edifice a bloated half moon hung low in the sky. We need to recognize the defects of the old system and throw it out, before the entire edifice of any justice in Indian society collapses. Only workers are able and willing to challenge the whole edifice of capitalist injustice. Indeed, one act of violence is enough to bring down the whole edifice of peace-building. The war on terror was founded on an edifice of illusions that virtually no one in the US policy community questioned. Among the core fantasies on which the entire edifice rests is the belief that something called True Love exists. Poverty and wars are becoming the order of the world threatening to demolish the very edifice patriarchal capitalism strives to protect. The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 brought down with it the fragile European edifice. By the end of the 19th century it had become an imposing theoretical edifice. From this the reviewer assumed that I was black and on that assumption raised a towering edifice of racial criticism. Scalia's entire legal edifice is built not upon words, but upon a single understanding of a word. Incorrectly labelling them as' illegal immigrants', they build a vast edifice of repression. It seems the whole global capitalist edifice lies rather uncomfortably on the shoulders of the humble shopper. The entire edifice of opera subsidy, supposedly designed to make opera accessible, has had to rely instead on a private company. For a very brief moment the edifice of post-cold war global capitalism looked as if it was gazing over a very steep precipice. The urge to bring down the edifice of medical practice seems to me to indicate the extent to which our expectations have been brought down already. In his later years he was fully informed of the choices being made, but interposed no public objection as his edifice of dreams was systematically reduced to rubble. Usually bedecked in a powder-blue suit, she totters down the steps of one ancient pile with the purpose of opening another crumbling edifice a short limousine drive away. The final result is that the internal structure of the downward tapering cone is a complex mosaic of faults, dykes and pipes feeding the volcanic edifice. We can split the atom and land a rocket on Mars, but sanity and civilization are a delicate edifice of reason over a maelstrom of envy, insecurity, and terror. Show More Sentences By evening, the grand edifice of the temple and the neon lights of the commercial area are reflected in the waters along with the five mandapams dotting the periphery. The imposing edifice of the U.S. Embassy towered over all, just a few blocks away. This result strongly agrees with the upward migration of seismic foci in the volcanic edifice, which has been found to precede recent flank eruptions. The death of William, his only legitimate son, in 1120 in the wreck of the White Ship brought Henry's whole carefully contrived edifice tumbling down. If a man be found willing to rear, in Our name, an edifice of pure gold or silver, or a house begemmed with stones of inestimable value, such a wish will no doubt be granted. Further along, past the stoic old-timers playing bocci, and a wet-suited man struggling to rig up his windsurfer, a derelict concrete edifice looms high over the beach. On the pretext that the statue was about to be attacked, the army erected a barbed wire fence around the area on May 25 and posted soldiers to guard the edifice. By evening, the grand edifice of the temple gopuram and the neon lights of the commercial area are reflected in the waters along with the five mandapams dotting the periphery. The nature of the degassing process within a volcanic edifice is critically important to the nature of eruptions, whether explosive or effusive, from the volcano. The republican edifice you swore to tear down is severely weakened. I am well aware of the construction of this super edifice and suggest that 130 years of life would be an under-estimation, the recent neglect of roof repairs. His face is a vertical edifice offset by a bulbous, somewhat aquiline nose, lined with sunken black eyes that have clearly observed the Hollywood abattoir too many times. To the top of the crumbling Gormenghastian edifice we climbed, leaned backwards over the abyss and landed a big old smacker on the legendary stone. The man stands at attention, head angled up, hands clenched at his sides, literally embodying the edifice of culture and the rigidity of man-made structures. The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed? The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed. A future state must needs subvene to prevent the whole edifice from falling into ruin. If people want to pray and mither to some invisible diety in a cold, draughty and damp edifice then they should provide the funds. Pakistan Army and People's Liberation Army of China form edifice of our strategic relations. It was the mercantilists who bridged the gap and, later on, Adam Smith built the whole edifice of economics. Show More Sentences The historical edifice of the Palace of San Telmo is now the seat of the presidency of the Andalusian Autonomous Government. Tornabuoni would still be in charge when 1494 came and the edifice of the Medici came crashing down. The entire edifice would be greatly disrupted by the French Revolution and the subsequent years of warfare. Abbot's Hospital, founded in 1619, is a grand edifice built in the Tudor style, despite its date. In this majestically proportioned edifice, the Palladian tradition of Inigo Jones is fused with contemporary continental sensibilities in masterly equilibrium. The Bank moved to its current location in Threadneedle Street in 1734, and thereafter slowly acquired neighbouring land to create the edifice seen today. The nest is a huge edifice of sticks in a tree or on a coastal cliff. Eventually, it became a part of the edifice itself, made out of concrete. It was a drab, cheapjack little area, unambiguously removed from the public, and yet I had come to love it in a way I never could the rest of the monstruous edifice. Eventually, a renewed edifice may grow large enough even to bury its somma, or sommas, completely, leaving no clue in its shape to a history of former catastrophe. Fortunately, there are not too many architect tourists in that neck of the woods and I suspect that the edifice still stands there, more or less intact. Examples from Classical Literature In this maxim our authors discover the foundation of the edifice of papal infallibility already laid. They appeared together in the church, a barnlike edifice, with great galleries half-way between the floor and the roof. It is a square wooden edifice, with gambrel roof and deep-set window-frames. The interior magnificence of this seigniorial edifice matches its defensive strength. Who could have expected to find such an edifice, here, on the borders of Lapland? When we wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. This once elegant edifice was of the Doric order, a hexastyle, the columns twenty-seven feet in height. It certainly was not the sentiment with which hitherto I have regarded this edifice. The edifice of German nationality still requires the copestone for the completion of the structure. But woe betide Alexander and all rareripe Bostonians who mistake the scaffolding for the edifice. It was Darwin who put the crown on the edifice by his theory of natural selection. The writer on word-lore must of necessity build on what has already been done, happy if he can add a few bricks to the edifice. It would be the old question of revolt against the edifice men have built. I have laid the foundations deep, that the edifice might endure. These we found located upon the second floor of the palace in a semi-detached tower at the rear of the edifice. As he watched her go, the nietzschean edifice seemed to shake and totter. The printed book, the gnawing worm of the edifice, sucks and devours it. It is a noble edifice, and once belonged to the Order of jacobins. The Taj Mahal is justly called the most beautiful edifice in the world. This may be the edifice of the tats which now shelters the Muse Lorin. Show More Sentences This is the species of edifice called by Vitruvius monopteral. He had commenced his labors, in the first year of their residence, by erecting a tall, gaunt edifice of wood, with its gable toward the highway. The new edifice, he said, must be built of weatherboard and iron. This edifice, the cradle of liberty, had been used by the British officers as a playhouse. Hardly an edifice standing in Leesburg today was then in existence. A gush of smoke came from a chimney in the rear of the edifice. The coping stone had been set on the edifice of the Bremen Cotton Market. The style of the edifice is Romanesque with a genuine Lombardic tower. The Nile rat kills the crocodile, the swordfish kills the whale, the book will kill the edifice. This little edifice was in all probability the chapel of Beck's hospitium. All, as they approached, looked upward at the imposing edifice, which was henceforth to assume its rank among the habitations of mankind. He went to lay the cornerstone of the proud edifice of his ambitions. No one could suspect that those two hands had been engaged with others in drawing out from the social edifice the keystone of royalty. A tin pipe ascends through the ceiling, and forms a medium of vocal communication with other parts of be edifice. In shape the edifice is cruciform, with a dome to each arm of the cross. Twelve cranes would be needed to build this edifice of stone-faced walls and glass facades. No, the truth is absolute, not a stone of the edifice shall be changed. The ayuntamiento or town hall is not a very impressive edifice. The ayuntamiento, or Town Hall, is an edifice of another sort. The edifice had a chandelier and candle sconces and two low galleries. Show More Sentences The fabric of the Declaration and that of the Confederation were each consistent with its own foundation, but they could not form one consistent, symmetrical edifice. Without stopping to examine this edifice, I executed a flank movement to the right and crossed the bridge over the Findelenbach, after first testing its strength. In the roaring and raging of the conflagration, a red-hot wind, driving straight from the infernal regions, seemed to be blowing the edifice away. Would you account the fall of a corner-stone, from the foundations of the edifice of learning, a matter of indifference to contemporaries or to posterity? May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Find more words! 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What is the opposite of edifice? Words that rhyme with edifice What is the plural of edifice? What is the adverb for edifice? What is the adjective for edifice? What is the noun for edifice? Translations for edifice Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words edification Edie edicts edict of nantes edict edibles edifices edificial edified edifies edify edifying 7-letter Words Starting With e ed edi edif edifi edific