Sentence examples for immense span from inspiring English sources

Conducting from memory, as he did in the Wagner, Ono realised the immense span of Strauss's score with authority, its delicate webs of sound as intense as the sweeping arcs.

None of this has changed since 1952, an increasingly immense span in an era in which political leaders and cultural icons rarely stay more than a decade at the top.

On the contrary, they remained scattered groups, sometimes coexisting with descendants of earlier populations of the Pleistocene Epoch (roughly 1,800,000 to 10,000 years ago), who in their turn had also learned to make economic use of their environment over an immense span of cultural time.

The high winter sky arcing Arctic-wards toward Canada, the steely lake waters, the black silhouettes of ore boats gliding distantly by, the immense span of the Mackinac Bridge (one young woman plunges her car off it in a snowstorm): these seem to offer -- and at the same time withhold -- the reality that eludes them.

In his introduction, Simpson says that "…experimental biology in general and genetics in particular have the grave defect that they cannot reproduce the vast and complex horizontal extent of the natural environment and, particularly, the immense span of time in which population changes really occur.

Maillart never built in the United States, but Ammann designed several immense spans in the New York City area, including the George Washington, Bayonne, Bronx-Whitestone and Verrazano-Narrows Bridges.

Archaeology is the only field that can study the human experience over immense spans of time, many centuries or even millennia, going back millions of years.

The Leary trove is immense, spanning his childhood to his death, comprising some three hundred and fifty boxes of correspondence, experimental data, legal records, and manuscripts, as well as several hundred hours of video and audio recordings.

To gaze upon a fern is to realize yourself in the presence of "immense spans of time," as the neurologist (and amateur pteridologist, or scholar of ferns) Oliver Sacks wrote in "Oaxaca Journal" (2002), his chronicle of searching for ferns in Mexico.

Over the course of this immense time span, our species evolved from diminutive, small-brained bipeds eating fruit, digging for tubers, and catching the occasional lizard to what we are now: animals, as Friedrich Nietzsche put it, who can make promises.

But first, a warning: it is difficult for anyone to conceive of such an immense time span as 4.5 billion years.