Sentence examples similar to expanses 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 show may reach back nearly five decades, but it still has a hip quotient that is unusually high for the Met, given the expanses of hard-core Conceptual Art at its center — texts, photographs, jokes, philosophical propositions, video, art about art and more photographs — and the noticeable lack of conventional painting and sculpture.

The text, by Mr. O'Hare and the show's director, Lisa Peterson, blends small selections from Robert Fagles's translation with larger expanses of vernacular language (1 40).

Cowed by expanses of immaculate white walls?

Settlements are separated by expanses of grazing area.

Winged palettes hover over expanses of gray ocean.

To the north are vast expanses of saline marshes.

The expanses of glass make the interior feel particularly airy.

The largest expanses of these wetlands occur at temperate latitudes.

To look around and see vast expanses of open space.