Sentence examples for a sweeping tale from inspiring English sources

After a career spent directing theater, Christina Yao decided to try making a movie - and for her maiden effort, she chose a sweeping tale of late 19th-century China, complete with period costumes, horses, camels - and numerous rugged locations.

So this account of the project, which was designed by Renzo Piano, is also a sweeping tale of national identity and artistic anxiety.

GIANT If the return of the television show "Dallas" isn't scratching the itch for a sweeping tale of romance and vengeance among cattlemen and oil tycoons deep in the heart of Texas, this epic musical, based on Edna Ferber's 1952 novel, might do the trick, albeit differently.

"I think the fight over an open internet is today's version of a battle between open and closed that has been raging now for 2,300 years," he says, sketching a sweeping tale of clashing forces dating back to the third century BC, taking in the burning of the library at Alexandria, the invention of the number zero, the dark ages and the impact of the printing press.

Director Monty Miranda's full-length feature film of the same name brings these glorious beasts to full gallop in a sweeping tale that is part documentary, part character-driven narrative.

The author of "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" has written a broadly sweeping tale that opens in Shanghai in 1937.

You can have your "sweeping tale of survival, adventure and forbidden love" and your "Part fish!

If you've never read the 1862 Victor Hugo novel, seen any of the many feature-film versions, read the Cliff Notes or the Classics Illustrated comic book or sat through the stage musical that has sold several gazillion tickets worldwide (oh, for gosh sakes, bring him home already), you will still be able to make some sense of this famously sweeping tale.

Helen Couchman China popped onto Helen Couchman's radar around 2000, when, she said, she "first saw gorgeous little tidbits of something far away": glossy photos in British magazines of ice palaces in the northern city of Harbin and sweeping tales of the country's frenetic experiment with modernization.

The mock-mini-series, which features Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig, Tobey Maguire, Tim Robbins and more, promises to offer a "momentous and sweeping tale of forbidden love, betrayal, corruption and bloodshed".

Instead of one story with a sweeping dramatic arc, there are many smaller tales and anecdotes from his many sojourns.