Sentences with phrase «edifice complex»
The phrase "edifice complex" refers to a person's obsession or desire to build large and impressive structures. It implies that someone wants to create impressive buildings as a way to display their power, wealth, or ego. Full definition
At Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., where the buildings are named for the company's top endorsers, an athlete could get an incurable edifice complex.
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Companies that build grand temples to themselves often are accused of harboring an «edifice complex.»
Others exhibit an edifice complex, and move into needlessly fancy new offices.
Or is this just an expression of Jamie Dimon's edifice complex?
But some equivalent to the destruction of Jerusalem is no answer to what has often been called the church's «edifice complex.»
A good start is to help volunteers overcome the «edifice complex» by downplaying the notion that what's most important for the group is the classroom or clinic or house that they're going to build, and emphasizing that the real purpose is pastoral accompaniment.
It is too busy consuming its gifts and graces — resources both human and financial — feeding ego mills and dysfunctional parishes and agencies, fostering «edifice complexes» and learning to «hate all the people our relatives hate.»
The National Review, a conservative publication, sides with progressive mayor de Blasio against Cuomo, (who the magazine says has an «edifice complex»), on the question of downstate bridge lights.
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller famously had his «edifice complex,» a playing out of his family drama that resulted in a string of monstrous buildings.