The phrase "a sweeping analysis of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a comprehensive and thorough examination of a particular subject or topic.
Example: "The report provides a sweeping analysis of the economic impacts of climate change on global markets."
Alternatives: "a comprehensive review of" or "an extensive examination of".
As for lack of substance, the play offers a sweeping analysis of how all progress in human history has taken the form of an economic bubble: slavery, the railroad, the internet.
She did not offer a sweeping analysis of the city's needs, but instead focused on a few specific steps that might improve conditions for those struggling to make ends meet.
They are also to act on a sweeping analysis of the American criminal justice system and a sharply worded criticism of the Supreme Court's decision striking down a state law that banned a late-term abortion procedure whose opponents call it "partial birth".
New York State officials said they hoped the ruling meant that the commission would have to complete a sweeping analysis of waste storage at reactors before extending the licenses of the Indian Point reactors in Westchester County, which Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants shut down.
The team, composed of researchers from Japan and the United Kingdom, conducted a sweeping analysis of mitochondrial membrane proteins in vertebrates.
LAPD officers used Tasers in more encounters in 2015 than in previous years, according to a sweeping use-of-force analysis the department published last month.
Astonishing, lucid, searing, brilliant, and shocking are the terms reviewers have used to describe this sweeping historical analysis of an idea that is foundational to Western civilization and has proven impossible to eradicate.
Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All is therefore a sweeping empirical and theoretical analysis of the capitalism's ongoing structural transformation.
His analysis might equally point to another, less palatable outcome: a sweeping aside of legal constraints, and a more rapid pace of executions.
People who have seen it say it is a sweeping critique of many forensic methods that the police and prosecutors rely on, including fingerprinting, firearms identification and analysis of bite marks, blood spatter, hair and handwriting.
But whatever claims the FN makes about its rise after sweeping to victory in Brignoles, a sober analysis of its overall electoral success suggests that its status as a protest movement remains unchanged.
