edifice

IPA: ˈɛdʌfʌs

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one
An abstract structure; a school of thought.

Examples of "edifice" in Sentences

The entire U.S. geopolitical imperial edifice is a house built on sand.
To him this edifice is a beautiful structure, although it will never be finished.
"That whole rather rickety edifice is being swept away and replaced with a much simpler system," Sampson said.
Having the bad luck to ascend to Power just as the whole Washington edifice is swirling down the shithole. ha ha ha
The old blueprints were found much later and the reconstructed edifice is a replica of how it was before the bad times.
The owner of the edifice is a 56 years old landscape architect by the way, and he say an upwards of $12,000 has gone into building thetreehouse.
Now on the one hand, as we have seen, every brick making up this massive conceptual edifice is a friable mixture of untruth, half-truth, hypothesis or assertion.
Even his grand Social Security edifice is under assault by the vandals of the G.O.P. Conservatives insist the cuts are necessary to get the roaring federal budget deficit under control.
Successful policies & programs might take decades of hard work to carefully craft & hordes of active & involved supporters to defend them against the forces of reaction & hate while the edifice is being built & occupied.
The Eiffel-like edifice is modelled on the 1799 Faversham church spire which adopted very similar buttresses in order to soften the blow should it fall into the town as a result of an explosion at the nearby gunpowder works.