Sentence examples for expanse of text from inspiring English sources

They are also culled from this untamed expanse of text according to theme ("Slave Narratives" or "Books About Books") or period ("The Ancient World" or "18th Century") or genre ("Dime Novels" or "Reference Books and Guides").

His carefully rendered, quietly paradisaical scenes of the buildings, gardens and inmates of his hospital include expanses of delicate text and have the solidity of latter-day manuscript illuminations.

The upside is that good writers, in their best moments, can conjure from a blank expanse of nothingness something: a text with a shape, a voice, a world, even a personality of its own, able to speak to those its author would consider strangers — the same thing that photographers and illustrators manage in their frames.

This might explain the vast expanse of interpretive space between the book's images and text: Evans's photos sit alone at the front of the book, unremarked upon, serving as a kind of tonal prelude, then cede the stage completely to Agee's wild, modernistic jumble of verse, prose, and theatric convention.

Lovely big expanse of blue.

We spend the expanse of our days — even those of us paid to keep our eyes glued to the nonelectronic page — gazing into our phones, scanning for the next text, e-mail or tweet.

The expanse of the collection awed experts.

It's a treacherous expanse of water.

All of these structures surround the broad expanse of Senate Square.

The views stretch out over the expanse of Central Park.

Beyond it was the smooth expanse of river.