Sentence examples for a great profusion from inspiring English sources

The rest of the buildings were shops and lodging houses, and there was a great profusion of cafés, before which neon signs, red and yellow and peacock blue, screamed their messages and, incidentally, served as illumination for the road.

(Who says print is nearing extinction?) They also get special attention at the formidable Swarovski Kristallwelten, a Tyrolean retort to Disney whose website promises a grass-covered giant continually vomiting water, towheaded families enjoying picnics and, naturally, a great profusion of gift shops.

Similarly with musical colour, or timbre; the 19th century produced a great profusion of compositions, particularly in the orchestral repertoire (e.g., works by Liszt and Berlioz) that exploited the unique sonorities of instruments; control of volume was, in itself, a rich source of colour.

Colombia has fewer religious celebrations and a greater profusion of courtship dances.

John Robinson In no other building in history have a greater profusion of consequential decisions been taken.

According to the accepted theory, a book that shows up in great profusion on the review-copy tables is a book that not many reviewers care about keeping — and not many Strand-hounds care about buying at half price — and is therefore a book that is doomed.

Tim Vine is a cheerfully comic, rather than pathetic, Buttons who hurls gags at us in great profusion, acts as a choric commentator (asked how everything could have gone so wrong, he replies: "I suppose you could start with the script") and, the night I was there, treated an unduly demonstrative kid, rashly invited on stage, with exemplary courtesy.

Transistor radios in great profusion now.

But the colleges that families who grouse about these things say they want already exist, in great profusion.

These animals were solitary suspension feeders that grew in such great profusion that they affected bottom currents and water circulation.

Instead, he wrote articles and reviews in great profusion, often inspired by the discovery of new texts and often providing definitive solutions.