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Перевод: monolith

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монолит

Тезаурус:

1. Droves of grey and brown horses grazed on the haugh beyond, milling round the still point of a tall grey monolith which thrust up through the turf like a stone sword.
2. His is the monolith of granite, in memory of the victims of World War I and the tenth anniversary of the Republic in 1928.
3. Bureaucracy may strike an ordinary citizen as an undifferentiated monolith whose personnel are distant and officious, whose workings are baffling, whose idiom of discourse is unintelligible (perhaps even in another language), personified as a "them", wholly external to the actor's everyday social reality.
4. That enigmatic black monolith dwindles to an all-too-reasonable von Neumann machine, its godlike makers to folk only slightly upmarket from ourselves.
5. Making all due allowance for the return of historical tragedy as farce, watching this soporific monolith of the virtuous rise out of the debris of a liberating movement is akin to nothing so much as witnessing Bureaucracy emerge from the ashes of Revolution.
6. All of these ideas - and there are countless other examples - have advanced the course of science considerably: who knows where our science and scientific theory would be now had not the monolith of scientific orthodoxy stood for so long in their way?
7. The administration itself is of course no monolith and does not act as a single bloc, pursuing its interests whatever they may be.
8. On the Mercedes-Benz stand all was quiet contemplation and sober judgements as the world's automotive sages basked in a recyclable, CFC-free attempt at justifying a double-glazed, 408bhp V12 monolith weighing more than two tonnes, 17ft long and called the new Mercedes S-class.
9. A Russo-American expedition heads for Jupiter and the abandoned spaceship Discovery, the murderous but deactivated HAL computer (not HAL's fault he turned nasty, he was driven mad by security regulations), and the lurking black monolith which sent astronaut Bowman through that lengthy light-show and metamorphosis into mystic star Child.
10. Close by, in the churchyard, is the famous Rudston monolith or rood-stone from which the village takes its name.
11. For not only are they bad for women - who find it difficult to be canonized unless they are nuns, queens or martyrs - but equally they form another monolith.
12. The future of the two alliances is in the balance, and the Soviet side is already eager to restructure the Warsaw Pact into something which may look more like the Commonwealth than the Moscow-dominated monolith of the still recent past.
13. This monolith sat atop an escarpment which accommodated the raking of the auditorium and the levelled hardcore of a car park, and cast its long shadow over an adjacent bit of parkland, a cosy corner of scrub, stream and wood that drew me and my friends to it like a magnet.