Downtown standout

Usage examples of skyscraper.

And the world, by implication, though having reached from the Archaeozoic to the Present, and from cave dwellings to skyscrapers with roof-gardens, is just as far removed from true Paradise on earth.

Splashes of dawn sunlight struck the metallic blue sheen of the windows on the skyscrapers up at Bethesda Metro, and as Anna walked briskly along it occurred to her, not for the first time, that this was one of the high points of her day.

Savage, wanting the world--not so much the world as Cheaters Slagg, Derek Flammen and their mob--to think him dead, had not gone back to his headquarters atop the skyscraper, except clandestinely, to get such mechanism and apparatus as they thought might be needed.

Many of the skyscrapers had been rooted in lines from the foreign Feeds and were now dark, though in some places flames vented from broken windows, casting primitive illumination over the streets a thousand feet below.

Swift preceded us into one of the loveliest skyscraper gardens I have ever seen.

The effect of the Manichaean condemnation of the body is at once to reduce this impossible skyscraper to less than half its original height.

In northern Australia, Asia and Africa they build tall mounds from their underground nests - the equivalent of people building a skyscraper by hand.

However, the old girl was too shopworn for further mischief and was spending her days of decline as a scrubwoman in the skyscraper.

Compounding this effect, the river also narrows here, creating a sort of sluiceway that would knock down skyscrapers if they were placed in its path.

Here and there were tiny blossoms of flame sprouting forth from the interstices of huge clods, and at intervals he could see lopped, stemlike formations, the lower stories of skyscrapers from which the tops had been sheared by the swish of a thermo-nuclear scythe.

At the other end he carefully set the bronze bust of Plato, packed with enough superdense plastique to bring down a small skyscraper.

Under the dark evening sky, the skyscrapers seemed to become gigantic natural monoliths, and all the supersized structures that so dominated the city, that so marked Coruscant as a monument to the ingenuity of the reasoning species, seemed somehow the mark of folly, of futile pride striving against the vastness and majesty beyond the grasp of any mortal.

The golden rapier-blade shape was among the tallest of the skyscrapers that dominated the downtown cityscape of Salamanca.

We let them play with their earthmovers and their skyscrapers, their factories and their atomic bombs, but some of them are going to get hurt.

Seattle, and from the windows of my apartment I could see out across the rebuilt city, the skyscrapers replaced by green domes of glass silicate whose facets winked like emeralds, nested among gardens and stands of firs.