For all its vastness, it can be strangely claustrophobic.
American fiction fascinates because of the country it seeks to depict: its vastness, its extremes of landscape and temperatures, its hundreds of races, its gulfs between wealth and poverty.
This epic undertaking showcases cutting edge design techniques along with bold new talent, so if nothing else, it's admirable in its vastness and multi-disciplinary approach.
I describe it to people in terms of its vastness, its isolation from everything else.
Sleeping Dog The terrier will not relinquish his hold on it, frozen in attack he clenches stillness and would shake it like a rat but for its vastness.
The world "Samsara" gives us is strange and beautiful, and in places disturbing, but it also seems manageable, even in its vastness, and perhaps too easily consumed through beautiful images.
Watching Heimat (Homeland), you sink into its vastness like an old bed: it's both strange and familiar, cosy then achingly hard, as the minutes and decades drift past.
Commissioned following the oil rush of the 1970s, its vastness speaks of a time when it seemed that Mexico's oil would never run out.
To enter rural Northumberland is to encounter both its secretive remoteness and its vastness: Yorkshire may be larger, but it's nowhere near as big.
Russia has a more realistic sense of its own weakness: that it is a global superpower thanks only to its vastness, and in the narrow sense of its decaying stock of all-but-unusable nuclear warheads.
In fact it's a friendly, funky old place, which despite its vastness appears to be built largely of wood-the Swiss chalet in the mind of God.
