monolith

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They stand like a monolith, a standing stone of Christian ethics.

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  1. noun A large block of stone, especially one used in architecture or sculpture.
  2. noun Something, such as a column or monument, made from one large block of stone.
  3. noun Something suggestive of a large block of stone, as in immovability, massiveness, or uniformity.

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  • The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization. —  Fulldls.com
  • Seeing "the West" as a malevolent monolith, they blame it alone for disasters instead of trying to analyse situations in their own terms, or realising that many local leaders-for example, Ottoman Sultans or Lebanese faction leaders-were as much exploiters as exploited. —  The Art Newspaper - RSS
  • Indeed, what Lennon and the Beatles and their contemporaries achieved was the completion of the destruction of that monolith -- for good or ill, we have yet to know. —  Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
  • Far from being a monolith, there are multiple clashing viewpoints and narratives within Hamas. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • To me it's always dangerous to refer to any group in the monolith, as Rehman did referring to —  altmuslim
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  1. French monolithe, from Greek monolithos, consisting of a single stone : mono-, mono- + lithos, stone.

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  1. = French monolithe = Spanish monólito = Portuguese monolitho, a monolith, from Late Latin monolithus, from Greek μονόλιθος, made of one stone, as a pillar or column, from μόνος, single, + λίθος, stone
 

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