WASHINGTON — As he heads into a second term with sweeping ambition in an era of gridlock, President Obama is assembling a new White House team that looks much like the old one, choosing familiarity over freshness even at the risk of insularity.
This is an exhibition of sweeping ambition, which asks you to find the human in the divine and vice versa.
But the five plans still fall short of the sweeping ambition such a unique parcel of undeveloped public land in New York City should inspire.
But Maugham was right that his gift lay not in a striking style or in sweeping ambition but in the raw powers of observation and the glittering precision that he brought to his moral dramas.
Although the Socialist Realist plan for Nowa Huta was never completed, Central Square (Plac Centralny) and the six-story arcaded buildings that line Roses Avenue (Aleja Róż) remain a testament to the plan's sweeping ambition.
Stanford's proposal contained a cover letter from Hennessy that conveyed his sweeping ambition: "StanfordNYC has the potential to help catapult New York City into a leadership position in technology, to enhance its entrepreneurial endeavors and outcomes, diversify its economic base, enhance its talent pool and help our nation maintain its global lead in science and technology".
That book has emerged as a favorite for its beautifully sculptured sentences, sweeping ambition and big American themes, all qualities that the Pulitzer board tends to reward.
The offensive against popular living standards, whether conducted in the private sector or the public sector, by employers or by the government, is being done in a way that delays its worst effects – within limits imposed by the sweeping ambition of the structural adjustment programme.
Sweeping ambition can be hard to reconcile with human scale, especially in heavy music, where the feeling of immensity is so easily achieved.
and "Fun Fun Fun" to the introversion of "In My Room" and the sweeping ambition (and seesawing tempos) of "Heroes and Villains".
It's tempting to psychoanalyze Friedman, whose sweeping ambition, fetish for industry disruption and distrust of conventions have pretty clear biographical antecedents.
