The phrase "a vast force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large and powerful influence or entity, often in contexts related to nature, military, or social movements.
Example: "The storm unleashed a vast force that uprooted trees and damaged buildings across the town."
Alternatives: "a tremendous power" or "a great strength."
Whereas Bresson's naturalistic religion condenses a vast force into an infinitesimal gesture, Pialat expands spiritual power to a large-scale struggle that bursts out in physical and emotional violence.
Meanwhile, as a new report for The Henry Jackson Society: "Tehran's Servants" by Jonathan Spyer demonstrates, Iran has taken control of a vast force of Shia militias in Iraq that are now dominating much of the country.
Xerxes commands a vast force and moreover has at his disposal a number of gigantic beasts, real and legendary, along with weird claw-handed giants whose job is to decapitate underperforming generals pour encourager les autres.
Similarly, in Wild, Jean-Marc Vallée turns what could've easily been a sappy life-lesson into a film where the natural world comes across as a vast force, with Reese Witherspoon only a small figure travelling through it.
The day he took over, following a reconnaissance into the Kentucky hinterland, Sherman wrote anxiously to civilian supporters, and to Lincoln as well, that the whole countryside seethed with disunion, that the enemy was conspiring to create a "vast force" that would soon overwhelm Louisville.
A day after President Bush asked Americans to respond to the war on terror with an outpouring of volunteerism, his administration began trying to figure out how to mobilize a vast force of Americans for a still sketchy role on the home front battlefield.
JW The 70th anniversary coverage of the Dunkirk landings continues with Dan Snow meeting some of the owners of the ragtag bunch of trawlers, pleasure craft and lifeboats that saved the lives of thousands of retreating British Expeditionary Force soldiers outnumbered by a vast German force.
Despite its skilful attempts to disguise it, the site is backed financially (if not editorially) by ESPN, which is a vast cultural force in the US – and not necessarily a force for good.
Just last Saturday, Col. Delphin K. Kahimbi, a deputy commander of the vast force trying to defeat General Nkunda, said many rebels had been killed and victory was at hand.
Enterprise against a vast, omnipotent force called "V'Ger," which threatens to destroy Earth.
George C. Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, was assembling a vast fighting force, and many of the young draftees and volunteers were isolationist, ignorant, or indifferent.
