temple-like

• “Religious icons sit in niches in the vast, cool, temple-like interior; fat white buddhas keep guard outside.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Acquiring a Taste for the Spice of Life

• “What I do need is a temple-like background so Ork can shoot some pictures of both Ellenora and Amelie ...”

  requests - giving mood

• “A sketch for a temple-like entrance to the house, with stairs, wound up in the discard pile (too out of character with the neighborhood), as did one for inflatable bedrooms (too pricey).”

  The Wall Street Journal: A New Addition

• “It is a wooden building with a temple-like facade, including three pylons, and obelisk-shaped fence posts.”

  19th-Century Egyptian Revivalism

• “Oh: I was in a way grateful that her performance in the anthology film was limited to a snippet - although to hear her singing Running Up That Hill live over the temple-like Egyptian's mighty sound system as I first entered the cinema was, for me, admittedly dreamlike.”

  Gregory Weinkauf: The Secret Policeman's Film Festival: Be There -- With Balls On!

• “But as soon as we got to the base of the huge, Mormon temple-like castle and came upon every one of the Disney characters -- and I mean every single one -- performing an elaborate dance number together, Eve suddenly looked stunned, and not in a good way.”

  Suz Redfearn: Cinderella Bitch Slap

• “This lessened the arduous task of constructing his sculpture: a 13-foot-high, 40-foot-wide temple-like structure with a living green roof kept alive by its own custom-made watering system.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What Grew Amid the Ashes

• “Neither the Ancient Greeks nor Romans had ever built houses remotely like this -- indeed, Palladio was mistaken in thinking that they ever applied temple-like porticoes to their houses at all.”

  The Wall Street Journal: How I Spent a Few Days in Palladio's World

• “Last week at Obama's acceptance speech, that spirit exalted itself in front of a Greek temple-like stage, and to a huge audience like in a Roman arena.”

  Steven Waldman: Was Sarah Palin Sent By God to Battle the Anti-Christ?

• “Flag description: three equal vertical bands of black (hoist), red, and green, with a gold emblem centered on the red band; the emblem features a temple-like structure encircled by a wreath on the left and right and by a bold Islamic inscription above”

  Afghanistan

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