load-bearing wall

The enormous hole I cut in a load-bearing wall in a Gordon Matta-Clark-informed burst of inspiration required extensive professional intervention.

I guess you’d call it if you were looking for a nice way to say that she’s got a great future ahead of her as a load-bearing wall.

She’s the closest thing this book has to a reader’s representative and the only load-bearing wall, at least at the start, that doesn’t seem off plumb.

“I had no idea what was going on with Agatha until the end, but she became more and more important to me as the manuscript progressed. She could have been a throwaway character. Instead, she’s more of a load-bearing wall.”

Stenzel did all the stonework on the house himself, first starting with a load-bearing wall that is now in the center of the house, dividing his kitchen from his living room.