monolith
ఏకశిల
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.
translation of 'monolith'
ఏక శిలాఖండము
example
The food 'monolith' , with its chicken mills and slaughterhouses, wasn't created because its owners are cruel.
The meeting is symbolic of Coleman's transition from a top executive at a corporate 'monolith' to founder of a bootstrapping software company.
Glass, glass and more glass are the building materials for this 'monolith' .
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.
He looks around some more, then goes outside and eyes the house, a dark 'monolith' with a light in an upstairs room.
Government is no 'monolith' , he explains, and its competing interests and agencies are always at war with one another.
the 72-story 'monolith' overlooking the waterfront
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 giant sandstone 'monolith' reaches a height of 335 metres and measures 8.8 kilometres in circumference.
The nationalist people lived in the shadow of the Unionist 'monolith' for fifty years until the events of the 1960's occurred.
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' .
There's no sign outside the concrete-and-glass 'monolith' .
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 psychological establishment is not a 'monolith' ; it is more like a parliament made up of small fractious parties,’ Garcia writes.
It was only when she found herself standing before a massive pile of weathered stones, a huge, natural 'monolith' , that she stopped.
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 organiser of the concerts took me outside the hotel one day, it is a huge 'monolith' , and asked me if I noticed anything unusual about the design.
With a few simple words, official honesty was once again the order of business inside the glass-fronted 'monolith' overlooking the East River.
Within the dark urban 'monolith' that is the Tower building lies an organisation at the cutting edge of eco-tourism.
With the collapse of the Soviet economy, prisons could no longer function as an industrial 'monolith' .
the 72-storey 'monolith' overlooking the waterfront
Moreover, the army was not a 'monolith' , and military leadership not of one mind.
We explored his hideout en route to the southern hemisphere's second-largest single 'monolith' , Bald Rock.
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.
A 'monolith' in glass and concrete stands today in the place of the old colonial structure.
Upon the first day of his eighteenth year the ancients called him to the stone 'monolith' .
The result is that the Roman family has been treated as an undifferentiated 'monolith' .
What better way to attack the 'monolith' of social repression than by attacking the ‘sanctity’ of the linear narrative?
If the Constitution becomes the basis for the enforceable spread of one sect's values, then evangelism really will have become a political 'monolith' .
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