Pointless, but imperative; political to a degree, but impatient with politics; moral certainly, but uneasily – and with serious regard to that vastness in nature against which our mortality measures itself, but which we are now killing.
Overall, it is genuinely difficult to grasp or to visualise the vastness of these search spaces, and the manner in which even very large numbers of examples populate them only extremely sparsely.
It translates the mute nature of sorrow in a manner that brings to mind Alonso Cano's painting on the same theme, in which the body of Christ appears in isolation, lost in the vastness of a dark and empty universe.
Like Mr. McNally's "Lisbon Traviata" and "Frankie and Johnny," "Nudity" explores the chasm between the smallness of ordinary lives and the vastness of timeless artworks, as well as the fleeting moments in which that gulf is bridged.
Due to vastness of the space, many cells remain uncovered even though an agent has traversed through the street in which they lie, due to designation of only those cells as covered who are within a specified range.
There is a colloquy between the Lord of the Yellow River and the God of the Eastern Ocean, in which the complacent self-satisfaction of the lesser spirit is shaken by his unexpected meeting with inconceivable vastness.
The first is a uniquely detailed narrative of the gulag, of the callous, slatternly universe which consumed millions of lives and yet, through its vastness, developed chinks in which lucky prisoners might construct a shaky independence.
But Mr. Davies and his director, Bruce Neibaur, have done it for the first time in Imax, a format in which the vastnesses of deserts and seas show up superbly on vastnesses of screen and in which aerial shots capture every face in a crowd.
But the problem is particularly acute in America because of the vastness of the country, which makes fixed-line networks expensive to run or improve.
The early colonists were awed by the vastness of the flocks, which contained hundreds of millions — perhaps billions — of birds.
