Richard Greenberg

It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith.

American Playwright

JPEGMAFIA

Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth - even myself. But you can't manufacture a hard truth and place it on somebody. When Kanye says slavery was a choice, that's not a harsh truth.

American Musician

Dee Rees

We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented.

American Director

Daniel Suarez

We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

American Author

Adam Rapp

When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.

American Novelist

Ava DuVernay

It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

Nina Easton

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

American Journalist

Jesse Williams

Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.

American Actor

Jim Webb

Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

American Politician

Janet Mock

American Writer

Refers to physical structures with historical, cultural, or symbolic significance.

Physical Monuments

Can imply something unchanging and permanent.

Immovable Impression

Used metaphorically to describe a dominant organization or system.

Metaphor for Power

Implies centralization of control within an organization.

Unity and Control

Describes buildings that dominate their surroundings.

Architectural Dominance

Conveys the idea of strength and durability in building design.

Solid Appearance

In computing, it suggests that the system's parts are highly interdependent and complex.

Technical Dependency

Highlights the complexity and potential difficulty in modifying a computing system.

Complexity in Tech

 Now, you have exactly the same problem when you shop for a stereo. You go to the stereo store, you see two sets of speakers -- these big, boxy, monoliths, and these little, sleek speakers, and you play them, and you go, you know, I do hear a the big ones sound a little better. And so you buy them, and you bring them home,

Why we make bad...

 Now when we talk about millennials, a group that is often labeled as entitled, lazy, overeducated, noncommittal and narcissistic, the conversations often swirl around avocado toast, overpriced lattes and fancy jobs abroad -- you probably have heard all these things before. But millennials are not a monolith.

The story we tell about...

 And all my favorite science fiction movies I want to play out here as different dynamics. This planet actually has some life on it. Here it is, some indigenous life down here. One of the tools I can eventually earn for my UFO is a monolith that I can drop down. Now, as you can see,

Will Wright: Spore,...

 history and culture is not a monolith and in a way it became kind of like a marketing tool to encourage individuals to migrate to move there that this is a place where you can live you can thrive and peacefully reside there were still palpable racial tensions there are

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 Crowds of men with beards and skullcaps were swarming the streets. It was an FBI agent's wet dream. But being a part of this community, we knew how welcoming this space was. For years, I'd seen photos of this space being documented as a lifeless and cold monolith,

Bassam Tariq: The beauty...

 has scientists across the world racing to unlock its mysteries. Your engineering team has developed an elegant probe to study it. The probe is a collection of 27 cube modules capable of running all the scientific tests necessary to analyze the monolith.

Can you solve the alien...

 monolith that kind of stands on its own in British Columbia and the idea was that the guys would free climb the mountain and Dean would jump off the top and the idea was that we would film them doing this and so we're basically moving

Bryan Smith: Adrenaline...

 more than 80 tons these monoliths were moved from the quarry up to six miles across uneven terrain without the benefit of large animals or the wheel it is believed that trees could have

End of Easter Island PIPE...

 monolith of granite in the world yosemite 'he's great granite peaks were once the fiery heart of an immense volcano 100 million years ago massive bubbles of magma rose into a huge

Yosemite National Park PIPE...

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Monolith