"complex" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Or were they monuments to herself, the manifestations of a condition that one commentator wryly describes as "an edifice complex"?
- Towers built as tourist attractions went out in the 1970s, and this particular one is an obvious manifestation of a politician's "edifice complex".
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- He said board members had "an edifice complex in which only new buildings count and ones with history need to be replaced by Disneyland facades."
- I guess the people here have an edifice complex.
- The edifice complex is the disorder of the season.
- Some turn out to be mere vanity projects - an edifice complex has been diagnosed in some politicians - and others are vast oversimplifications.
- Civic planners and politicians, as the joke went, were in the grip of an edifice complex.
- It's the house of somebody with an edifice complex.
- But judges with overweening edifice complexes mostly opt for new buildings.
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