Sentence examples for measure of vast from inspiring English sources

The book, while conceding the usefulness of modern G.P.S.-based navigation, is an elegy to the days when Barrie felt himself "a transient speck of life, fixing my position on the surface of our small planet by taking the measure of vast, unimaginably distant suns".

A visit to the public market on the waterfront gave some measure of the vast range of raw materials available to the Bahian cook.

If female empowerment has led to more baby girls not being born, that can be taken as a measure of the vast disenfranchisement that still exists, and an indicator of the progress that is yet to be made.

The liquid measure of this vast spinning is white, pearl white, as in the threatening vomit of the ocean.

And as a measure of the vast divide that exists even in political sphere, he said that the HDP has no contact whatsoever with either Erdogan or his ministers.

There is no accurate data on most of the world's forested areas and so far no one agreed way to accurately measure the carbon content of vast numbers of different species of trees in different kinds of forests.

It is a perhaps quixotic undertaking, but it could prove to be lucrative should the game achieve some measure of popularity within the vast population of potential fans.

She is, Shields has said, "one of those women who erases herself, who somehow slips out of her own life," and although Shields's purpose in demonstrating this is essentially feminist, the novel is marked by a vast measure of empathy and humour.

And what flows from lecterns coast to coast is some of the most strenuous, creative optimism ever fashioned, as graduates are told not only that the cup is half full but also that the opportunity to replenish such a vast measure of missing liquid doesn't lurch into view too often.

Most of the experiments measured fear toward novel animals and included a self-report measure of fear, and the vast majority of them (i.e., 88.9%) has shown that self-reported fear can be increased when children are provided with threatening information about a stimulus or situation.

If scientists could get into Andrew's head, they could measure the vast amounts of energy he spends managing the impact of his "singing shoes".