• One caution: when flimsy narrative superstructure begins to sag, anarchic wackiness can grow wearing.

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  • Why not recognise the confusion caused by the current superstructure and simply abolish Europe's commissioners altogether?

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • The rulings found that billboards and sign superstructure are real property even if the signs are just bolted to a building.

    FORBES: REITs Boom As More Industries Discover This Tax-Friendly Structure

  • Fire again struck the pier in 1974, during the filming of Ken Russell's "Tommy" and part of its superstructure had to be rebuilt.

    BBC: Tattooing returns to Portsmouth pier

  • We are not in crisis yet, but we are beginning to see the first cracks in the superstructure of our national broadband capacity.

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  • The new proposals are all ambitious plans, with most calling for the building of a superstructure which would outstrip the original twin towers in height.

    BBC: New Yorkers debate WTC plans

  • "A structurally deficient condition is a bridge that would have a rating of 4 either in the deck, the superstructure or the substructure, " he said.

    CNN: States warned to inspect bridges

  • They know that Fatah built a terror superstructure in Judea, Samaria and Gaza which enabled operational cooperation between Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror cells.

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  • In 1974 it was again wrecked by fire during the filming of the Ken Russell movie "Tommy" and part of the superstructure had to be rebuilt.

    BBC: Southsea's South Parade Pier closed over safety concerns

  • From the high-speed-train tracks, escalators lifted me past a bold new gridded superstructure by architect Jacques Voncke into the glorious cathedral of the original turn-of-the-20th-century station.

    CNN: Flanders: Europe's best-kept design secret

  • On my dive, as I whizzed round the corner of the superstructure I hovered over one of the many bombs that had been dropped on her.

    BBC: Torrey Canyon seabed returns to normal after oil spill

  • It is for the books of early instruction, in a great degree, to lay the foundation on which the whole superstructure of individual and national greatness must be erected.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Minders of Make-Believe'

  • Hitlerism has done these things to Germany for more than six years, and it has built up on this fundamental iniquity a superstructure of added brutality and senseless racial persecution.

    ECONOMIST: From the archive

  • Sligh told KOMO he was traveling south on the interstate behind the tractor trailer when he realized the load appeared to be about four feet too wide to fit through the bridge's superstructure.

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  • In Beijing they call him Zhu Fengzi, Madman Zhu, as he crashes through the rickety communist superstructure in the name of reform, laying off millions of workers from state-owned enterprises, terrorizing corrupt officials, having smugglers shot.

    CNN: Red star

  • With a whimsically eclectic technique (including musical sequences and special effects), she sets in motion a flashy yet complex superstructure of personal life that rests on a solid, implicit base of quasi-divine technological power and sociopolitical openness and energy.

    NEWYORKER: Declaration of War

  • While the thrust of the Occupy movement was to attempt a critique of the economic superstructure within which we live, the focus of the earlier Tea Party movement was to voice concern over a government that has grown morbidly obese and ineffective on high taxes and incompetent bureaucrats unable to adequately address the mounting problems that the country faces.

    FORBES: Private Equity, Hedge Funds Must be Understood to be Regulated Effectively

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