(n.) A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year, we have started building better tools for moderators and for admins to help keep subreddits and Reddit awesome, but our infrastructure is monolithic, and it is going to take some time.
(2) Fed up with parallel universe theories that have little to say about the world they're interested in, students at Manchester University have set up a post-crash economics society with 800 members, demanding an end to monolithic neoclassical courses and the introduction of a pluralist curriculum.
(3) Thrones, perhaps struggling under the weight of its monolithic pop culture status, or simply heartlessly breathtaking to begin with, really isn’t about anything anymore.
(4) It was found that all the global-release profiles yielded by the indomethacin-loaded Eudragit RL microspheres conformed to the Higuchi diffusional model of dispersed drug particles in spherical micromatrices and not to the desorption kinetic model of a dissolved drug from a monolithic spherical device.
(5) The last decade has seen dramatic advances in the design of sensor configurations, the marriage of biological systems with modern monolithic silicon and optical technologies, the development of effective electron-exchange systems and the introduction of direct immunosensors.
(6) "We're not interested in being a monolithic entity on the internet.
(7) The findings revealed no monolithic orientation, but showed that the nature of the issue determines which reference group is activated: peers or parents.
(8) As for gay men, Islam's attitude to them is, she says, no worse than that of any of the 'monolithic' faiths.
(9) The cumulative amount of the drug released plotted against the square root of time was linear in the monolithic system.
(10) A monolithic intraocular lens (IOL) design is described, made of with a total diameter of 8.5-9.0 mm.
(11) It’s very hard to see how they [the cuts] can be justified, especially not on the monolithic grounds of saving money for the hard-working consumer, or whatever it is [energy and climate secretary] Amber Rudd keeps saying.
(12) In other words, we’re meant to get diversity and responsiveness courtesy of monoliths.
(13) The monolithic concept bulk of this scientific Anthropocene can crush the subtleties out of both past and future, disregarding the roles of ideology, empire and political economy.
(14) On the basis of this research, the authors recommended that a drug educational programme should not treat drug use as a monolithic concept confined exclusively to legal and medical definitions, but, instead, should treat it in the context of the prevailing attitudes and factors involved.
(15) Starting from microscopic observations on early rabbit embryos and related cryotolerance, we investigated purified actin solutions under similar conditions, and found that sol-gel processing could result in the formation of homogeneous glass, and through drying, give rise to monolithic solids, glasses and composites.
(16) Three metres above us were the bases of these monoliths that were actually sitting there ready simply to be lowered out of their recesses,” he said.
(17) A possible use of konjac gel for sustained release of drugs was examined in a monolithic system containing dibucaine.
(18) When the hijackers boarded the four planes at Boston, Newark and Washington that morning they had been drilled to believe that they were attacking the enemy of a monolithic America.
(19) He faltered only when faced with the monolith of the 1960s extension to the town hall; not even he could find anything nice to say about that.
(20) We’re disrupting this idea that’s been perpetrated by the gun lobby and the media for far too long that you support gun violence legislation at your own political peril.” Third, ARS uses digital to show that groups traditionally thought of as strongly pro-gun – veterans, for example – are not so monolithic in their views.
Obelisk
Definition:
(n.) An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
(n.) A mark of reference; -- called also dagger [/]. See Dagger, n., 2.
(v. t.) To mark or designate with an obelisk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eye-to-eye, the bumbling bonhomie appeared to be a lacquer of likability over a living obelisk of corporate power.
(2) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
(3) In a harrowing account, Şatiroğlu said she saw the man preparing to launch the attack after blending into a group of 33 German citizens visiting the Theodosius obelisk.
(4) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.
(5) More recent historical artefacts – such as the obelisk inscribed with the names of more than 1,000 fallen revolutionaries that was once built and erected in Tahrir Square, or the giant concrete blocks deployed by the army to isolate protesters that were rapidly transformed by graffiti artists into towering canvases of resistance – were nowhere to be seen.
(6) Prince Charles and Prince Harry read at the service at the Cape Helles memorial, a towering stone obelisk on the southernmost tip of the Gallipoli peninsula whose square base walls bear the names of the 20,673 British and Commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives near here “and who have no known grave”.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A giant pink condom covers the Hyde Park Obelisk to promote safe sex in the lead up to Mardi Gras.
(8) Continue through limestone caves, past cathedral-like Beech Circle, majestic yews and reach your destination – the Pepperpot obelisk with a spectacular view across Morecambe Bay.
(9) Two red obelisks, one at each side of the street, commemorate the victims.
(10) I heard a click sound while I was telling the group about the obelisk.
(11) The worlds within our solar system show no city lights, no road systems, and no obelisks of generations long gone.” “Our loneliness within our solar system makes it natural to look beyond, to stars and galaxies, to search for communicative folks.
(12) By the time the sun cast its first shadow over the Washington monument's obelisk, thousands of people had lined the sides of the reflective pool.
(13) And on 1 February 2019, a man dressed as a sensible pirate will stand at the foot of an obelisk in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and blow an enchanted bendy horn, a horn only to be blown in Britain’s hour of need.
(14) The monument – a white marble obelisk imprinted with Yeltsin's image – stands 33ft (10 metres) tall and is the first major political statue to be unveiled since the Soviet Union's collapse.
(15) The 50-floor steel-clad obelisk is more than 90% occupied, by housing owner Canary Wharf Group and parent Songbird, along with firms including HSBC, HS2 and the European Banking Authority.
(16) 4 At the obelisk turn left and follow the deer sanctuary log rail barrier.
(17) It sounds promising, and Parry is eminently capable of designing an elegant obelisk, although another insider is less kind, describing it as a steroidal version of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, so big that it will “block out the entire solar system”.
(18) So I was not too surprised this week to watch fathers pushing baby buggies and mothers carrying groceries on Linkuvos Street, a residential road in modern Kaunas, Lithuania, with just one small obelisk – barely visible amid the traffic at a junction – marking the site where the gates to the ghetto once stood.
(19) From there, Akhmad Kadyrov Avenue runs to the Akhmad Kadyrov mosque, and on to the huge gold obelisk of the Akhmad Kadyrov museum.