One test of good writing is whether it expands the scope of what seems literary.
"The Internet dramatically expands the scope of potential people that we can meet".
The prosecutor, Daniel Bellemare, said the amendment "expands the scope" of the initial indictment he filed in January.
This radically expands the scope of biology and neuroscience from focusing on a single body or brain to looking at the interplay between two at a time.
The move significantly expands the scope of the project to separate much of the West Bank and could draw penalties from the Bush administration.
But where Ferrante's novel dwells in the immediate aftershock of marital betrayal, and the psychic fury it unleashes, Starnone expands the scope of his story, exploring the quieter but more protracted violence of joining a ruptured union back together.
Where those investigations have focused on interactions between the banks and their clients who bought mortgage securities, this one expands the scope of scrutiny to the interplay between banks and the agencies that rate their securities.
The arrival of a movie that expands the scope of our experience, that immerses us in a radically different point of view, is always a welcome event, and such a movie does not necessarily have to be great to be interesting.
Castor expands the scope of her tale by recounting in parallel the high-stakes battles fought between the Lancastrian and Yorkist lines of succession to the British throne, providing a canny assessment of the contenders and their campaigns, some of them horrifyingly gruesome.
ANKARA, Turkey, July 17 (Agence France-Presse) — The office of President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said Monday that he was moving ahead with a new antiterrorism law that expands the scope of crimes punishable as terrorist acts and includes restrictions on the news media.
"It is sadly ironic that democratic debate is being curtailed on a bill that vastly expands the scope of covert state activity when that activity will be subject to poor or even non-existent democratic oversight or review," the experts wrote.
