Sentence examples for generous sweep from inspiring English sources

The generous sweep of the recent batch of biographies makes Wallace's detours far more comprehensible.

Though it's less singular than the later music, the suite is a wonderfully accomplished score, full of rich, effulgent colours that positively glowed under the generous sweep of Brabbins' performance.

Initially, it was a frisson of disbelief at the opening bars of the overture that stirred the audience: not the expected Marriage of Figaro, but Weber's Oberon – though the dancing lilt and generous sweep of the phrasing augured well.

That's the question that comes to preoccupy Jules Jacobson, the ambitious protagonist of Meg Wolitzer's remarkable ninth novel, "The Interestings," whose inclusive vision and generous sweep place it among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom" and Jeffrey Eugenides's "Marriage Plot".

With her back to the audience Ms. Despres raised one leg high in a generous sweep, lowered it and jumped lightly in the air, repeating the pattern with fervor, each time growing more dynamic with her shapes, which were embellished with classical details: splayed fingers or a flexed foot.

And his world is so believable despite its period influence -- no one uses profanity -- that children are bound to be swept into its generous expanse.

He shaped the theme of that moody Adagio with poignant nobility and brought sweep, generous lyricism and punchy rhythmic vigor to the rhapsodic finale.

A private, unassuming and generous woman, she swept in at the age of 56, a fully-formed and great American writer.

Sterling Hyltin, dancing the part at the Saturday matinee, imbued it with full-stretch ardor (her latest irradiating asset), exquisite linear beauty, moments of marvelous playfulness and — best of all — a generous radiance that swept the others onstage up into her joy.

But he came to power to effect a revolution, to sweep Scotland, generous welfare state and all, to independence.

Elsewhere, much of the new building is given over to vast areas for circulation, from the meandering staircases, which sweep from generous spirals to doglegs between the floors, to gaping lobbies and their triple-height voids, where leaning concrete buttresses soar through the levels.