temple-like

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).

A New Addition Juliet Chung 2011

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

I'm in a giving mood nathreee 2010

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

Acquiring a Taste for the Spice of Life Jemima Sissons 2011

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

requests - giving mood nathreee 2010

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.

What Grew Amid the Ashes 2009

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.

How I Spent a Few Days in Palladio's World 2009

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

19th-Century Egyptian Revivalism 2009

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! 2009

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 2009

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? 2008