Ms. Durbak is one of several residents who have complained to city officials about the state of the three-quarter-acre field, which is the only flat expanse in gently sloping Fort Greene Park and is in high demand for games or just lounging on a blanket.
Your eye gets taken to a place from which there is little to see — only the expanse of milky whiteness in the wax-covered, 11-foot sheet of paper, plus the pathway itself.
To the contrary, it can be a great distraction from what is meaningful -- which is often old, timeless, contained in books, in music, in art, and in the hearts and souls of human beings who need only the expanse of quiet, leisure, stillness, and each other to bring their wisdom to life.
We could only see expanses of frozen water and unwelcoming forest but, come spring and summer, the area's a huge draw for kayaking, hiking and camping holidays.
The water resources, important to the fishing industry and tourism alike, include not only a vast expanse of fresh inland water but also a large area of adjacent salt water.
Of this vast expanse, only tiny fragments remain in any condition remotely similar to their original state.
He didn't mention the Hollywood sign, only the vast expanse of Griffith Park on whose edge it sits.
But Branson has steadfastly stood before the cameras promising the stars, a Disney ride to the expanse only a big-thinking billionaire could offer.
Paul's adult life turns into a long, flat, featureless expanse only occasionally enlivened by narrative contrivances and essentially disconnected from the larger currents of national life.
You cannot simply shift a load of television actors onto a movie screen and expect them to command its greater expanse; only one in a thousand will be able to summon that mysterious confluence of presence and reserve on which stardom relies — the will both to offer oneself to the camera and yet to keep back the hidden, unguessable sources of that self.
