Sentence examples for historical canvas from inspiring English sources
Oddly, though, the historical canvas is often reduced to a minor reference point.
Friedman's contribution to this discussion is the breadth and detail of his historical canvas, and it's a significant one.
"Strangers in a Strange Land" is skimpy with personal portraits; the program sticks to a broad historical canvas, expressing general truths of the American immigrant experience.
Taken together these varied visual formats and the ambitious historical canvas lend a cinematic scope that belies the trilogy's original broadcast in three installments on Channel 4 in Britain.
Mr. Stoppard is always pulling the rug out from under the idealistic aspirations and postures in "Utopia," including those of a playwright who dares to paint on such a broad historical canvas.
With "The Surrendered," Mr. Lee has written the most ambitious and compelling novel of his already impressive career a symphonic work that reprises the themes of identity, familial legacies and the imperatives of fate he has addressed in earlier works, but which he grapples with here on a broader, more intricate historical canvas.
The historical and political canvas of Golden Age is breathtaking in its expansiveness, and there is an epic quality to the trilogy as a whole.
Though the sensibility and prose are echt DeLillo, "Falling Man" is not necessarily the 9/11 novel you'd expect from the author of panoramic novels that probe the atomic age ("Underworld") and the Kennedy assassination ("Libra") on the broadest imaginable canvas, intermingling historical characters with fictional creations.
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A disproportionate number were historical pastiches on a wide canvas which felt like they were written from the outside looking in.
As a benchmark for the system, we acquired the canvas shapes of three historical artifacts, during their restoration phase at the ISCR institute.
