It offers an alternative to the view of Impressionism as a monolithic, one-size-fits-all cultural force.

The document would separate the present monolithic armed forces into distinct military and police forces.

Chinese routinely say they wish the exam weren't such a monolithic force, and various provinces have lately been allowed to offer their own versions.

Like a modern Thoreau, he offers a starkly divided world in which the monolithic forces of wealth, technology and marketing are at war with a pastoral peasantry.

Though rap is often seen as a monolithic force, in reality it's a genre jam-packed with contentious styles and ideologies.

Such distinctions are seldom recognized when we read about Muslim fundamentalists - or nationalists - as a monolithic religious force.

Politically, the songwriter is a left-of-center populist with no love for what he views as the current "monolithic forces" of big business.

I agree that the EU and Euro have become rather monolithic forces with decision-making that is too far removed from the people.

Though the Fatah movement will get most council seats, the legislators will not necessarily represent a monolithic force.