Edifice in a sentence as a noun

They built a model of who owns what and what their revenues are and mapped the whole edifice of economic power.

If the "communist" Grand Poobahs don't get a handle on the low-level stuff the whole edifice might come crashing down around them.

They're either hopelessly naive or trying to construct a happy edifice while behaving badly.

We do not have any generally agreed upon or foolproof mechanisms to dismantle such an edifice.

By all means use it as the ugly foundations that you hide beneath the beautiful edifice on top, but throwing it away would be madness.

> how much of its edifice is built upon the dubious notion of a "rational actor"This is not a tenet for the Austrian school of thought.

What does Pentagon and its entire defense edifice ultimately protect?

If someone's a bigot, they're a bigot, no matter how complicated an ideological edifice they've erected to prove they're not a bigot.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

The array of theories presently in the making is a vastly complex and shifting edifice of debate, contradictory research results, and opinion.

If this programming model was so horribly broken, so inadequate, so crude, how could mere humans have created such an enormously complex technological edifice on top of such shaky foundations?

Imagine if we had indie game designers making their living writing game design documents and shopping them around to AAA companies--there would actually be a coherent game that the AAA edifice was hung upon!

I think the mathematical edifice is sound, but I can certainly see how being as divorced as possible from typical faculty responsibilities makes it easier to do original / groundbreaking research.

Each of us constructs an idiolect for our use, and the semantic edifice wrapping our words which we use to exercise thought often bears signs of the issues we have dealt with, not necessarily in learning the language, but also building it for our individual purposes.

Don't get me wrong, I've also started to see some cracks in the G edifice; and Facebook has definitely begun to set their agenda, but doesn't that mean search in general is already waning and that the next big thing will be whatever replaces Facebook?Great essay though, lots to think about.

But sometimes we enter such an edifice that is still partly under construction; then the sound of hammers, the reek of tobacco, the trivial jests bandied from workman to workman, enable us to realize that these great structures are but the result of giving to ordinary human effort a direction and purpose.

Edifice definitions

noun

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"

See also: building