monolith
ಏಕಶಿಲೆ
definition
noun
The ancient monoliths , pyramids, stone circles and grand statues were not just art or architecture.
a large single upright block of stone, especially one shaped into or serving as a pillar or monument.
the dominance of broadcasting monoliths limits local programming
a large and impersonal political, corporate, or social structure regarded as intractably indivisible and uniform.
example
The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist 'monolith' for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred.
‘The psychological establishment is not a 'monolith' ; it is more like a parliament made up of small fractious parties,’ Garcia writes.
the 72-storey 'monolith' overlooking the waterfront
With a few simple words, official honesty was once again the order of business inside the glass-fronted 'monolith' overlooking the East River.
They drove across town through the thinning evening traffic and worked their way towards the brand new 52 story 'monolith' known as the Conner tower.
Moreover, the army was not a 'monolith' , and military leadership not of one mind.
He looks around some more, then goes outside and eyes the house, a dark 'monolith' with a light in an upstairs room.
Upon the first day of his eighteenth year the ancients called him to the stone 'monolith' .
In reality, such identity typically reflects the control mechanism that cements the corporate body into a virtual 'monolith' .
Aerial photography has revealed four later Neolithic cursus monuments converging on the hillock with the 'monolith' , effectively boxing it in.
The giant sandstone 'monolith' reaches a height of 335 metres and measures 8.8 kilometres in circumference.
The skyline is dominated by the nearby Palace of Culture, a 'monolith' which Stalin constructed as a symbol of his power and as an answer to the skyscrapers of capitalism.
The original buildings were demolished in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building, and were replaced with a 2,200-room, 42-storey art-deco 'monolith' .
Within the dark urban 'monolith' that is the Tower building lies an organisation at the cutting edge of eco-tourism.
Glass, glass and more glass are the building materials for this 'monolith' .
Made from a single slab of andesite weighing at least 10 tons, this 'monolith' is carved in the form of a doorway with niches on either side.
If the Constitution becomes the basis for the enforceable spread of one sect's values, then evangelism really will have become a political 'monolith' .
A 'monolith' in glass and concrete stands today in the place of the old colonial structure.
Government is no 'monolith' , he explains, and its competing interests and agencies are always at war with one another.
The meeting is symbolic of Coleman's transition from a top executive at a corporate 'monolith' to founder of a bootstrapping software company.
There's no sign outside the concrete-and-glass 'monolith' .
The result is that the Roman family has been treated as an undifferentiated 'monolith' .
The food 'monolith' , with its chicken mills and slaughterhouses, wasn't created because its owners are cruel.
Eschewing the model of the totalitarian 'monolith' , Neumann's was the first influential attempt to analyse the structures of the regime in terms of a multitude of power blocs.
But perhaps a more serious issue is that most prior studies have examined the opinions of the public as a 'monolith' .
We explored his hideout en route to the southern hemisphere's second-largest single 'monolith' , Bald Rock.
New movements or schools of film-making in other countries tended to see Hollywood as a 'monolith' against which one could productively bang one's head.
the 72-story 'monolith' overlooking the waterfront
It was only when she found herself standing before a massive pile of weathered stones, a huge, natural 'monolith' , that she stopped.
What better way to attack the 'monolith' of social repression than by attacking the ‘sanctity’ of the linear narrative?
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