They travel from a European mill to a South American mine and take pride in the scope and grandeur of their company's activities.
His clipped, effective prose did not rise to those heights, nor did his ideas about art have the generous scope and grandeur of Ruskin's cultural vision.
"A Little Life," Hanya Yanagihara Yanagihara's novel breaks with the decorum of much of contemporary American fiction, laying claim instead to the scope and grandeur that often characterize the greatest queer art.
There's a savannah's scope and grandeur to The Lion King; The Dark Knight's staccato stabs and night-skulking horns come at you like a Gotham vigilante, and Interstellar blasts off into new dimensions of gargantuan orchestration, hitting a celestial high.
While it pales in comparison to actually being there, the timelapse does show the sheer scope and grandeur, not to mention the danger, of a supervolcano gearing up for the next blast.
But what takes his breath away isn't the architecture or the scope or the grandeur or the stars in the sky or the isolation.
What a tour de force, yet the scope of its grandeur and elegance was revealed only when it was lying on its side on a workbench under the bright lights of the repair shop where it is now being restored.
Darwin's own last words in the book suggest just such a broad scope: "There is grandeur in this view of life," he wrote, that "from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved".
