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monolithic

characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity a monolithic society a monolithic worldwide movement (= massive, monumental) imposing in size or bulk or solidity massive oak doors Moore's massive sculptures the monolithic proportions of Stalinist architecture a monumental scale

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Compare that with China, with its one monolithic empire.
First it's you clericals, father with your monolithic superstitions. Then peasants like her with their troglodyte indifference.
Why do you people feel such a need to align yourselves with monolithic organizations, hmm?
And while we 've chosen now our monolithic and benevolent gods and found our certainties in science, believers all, we wait for a sign, a revelation.
We are not one monolithic group of people.
In the Matrix, everything was slightly decayed, slightly monolithic.. andgrid-Iike, Iike a machine would make it.
Once a month, a monolithic tribute will rise from the depths of the ocean to remind all who is the master of this world.
The Church, contrary to popular belief, is not a monolithic organization.
Not quite as great as the monolithic espresso maker that, uh, I haven't learned how to use yet, but better than the air purifying system that makes a humming sound all day.
Well, the E-L-M isn't exactly a monolithic organization.
It would seem the Iga aren't monolithic!
I'd be happy to see Antarctica as a static, monolithic environment, a cold monolith of ice, sort of the way the people back in the past used to see it, but now our comfortable thought about Antarctica is over.
See how everyone around me and their wish to pass over monolithic block created these religions millennia and to make contacts and spiritual connections with the world.
You have one monolithic state.
In San Augustin, not far from here, they have monolithic statues that. Well, they go back to 500 BC.
And while we've chosen now our monolithic and benevolent gods and found our certainties in science, believers all, we wait for a sign, a revelation.
This appears significantly more monolithic than it did on my laptop.
There is no monolithic communism.
Evil, monolithic corporations?
I will create a monolithic empire, dwarfing France, intimidating England and challenging the Muslim tribes.
We tried to make a case, but. by then, Reiden was this. huge, monolithic super-corporation, and we were just a bunch of sick farmers in a tidewater town.
Your analysis of the insurgency there suggests to me there is no monolithic Taliban.
So at that point began a two-year process of dealing with not that many regulatory agencies, but fairly monolithic ones.
Obelisks as monolithic, granite towers, which are one solid piece of crystal, and the obelisks themselves were cut to special sizes and tuned like a tuning fork.
After my experience in hospital, I realised people's lives are dominated by monolithic institutions and their stupid rules and by petty martinets.
They're too monolithic right now.

News and current affairs

The imposition of a monolithic religious discourse on society has made liberal values attractive to Iranians.
Sociologists of religion have long argued that in a monolithic religious environment, or when religious institutions are closely tied to the state, the overall religiosity of the public declines.
This is a blunder, because Hamas is not monolithic.
This will lead to a frenetic new wave of competition, but not between China, America, and Japan as monolithic entities.
All of their borders are works of European fiction, attempts to impose a monolithic image on areas honeycombed with diversity.
The USSR fell apart because its monolithic institutions could not accommodate nations--Czechs and Uzbeks, Hungarians and Siberians, Poles and Mongols--whose histories, circumstances and aspirations were radically divergent.
Happily, because the state no longer has monolithic control, some banned writers found other work, even publishing outlets, on their own.
But it is not monolithic.
Fortunately, Chinese thinking on North Korea nowadays is no longer monolithic.
Despite the surface diversity of programming, the monolithic control of political discourse has changed little since the 1950's.
But they are far from being a monolithic group: enmity, jealously, anger over the past brutalities and injustices visited upon many of their kin may make some generals and colonels open to suggestions of a coup.
The story it presents is of a world beset by real injustices, for which the only solution is violent action that will supposedly lead to the victory of a monolithic Muslim world.
The two bodies are far from uniform and monolithic.
Then and now, Vietnam was the locus of a struggle between the vision of a monolithic Asia and that of an Asia that is open internally and to the world.
Similarly, the West will have to understand that the Islamic Republic is not a monolithic dictatorship.
There does not appear to be any alarmingly maximalist, monolithic position, embraced by the entire government and Communist Party, on which China is determined to steam ahead.
Last month, parliamentary elections dealt a mortal blow to Tudjmans' monolithic party, HDZ.
But, despite appearances, few totalitarian regimes, save those of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, have ever maintained a monolithic inner circle of power.

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