Sentence examples for sweep of human from inspiring English sources

Never before in the sweep of human history had so many people been so utterly comfortable.

Here is a look at the sweep of human brutality presented in a timeline.

This catalog of achievement, while not exactly news, is breathtaking in the sheer sweep of human ingenuity.

The device is a kind of "exo-brain," as one of Darnton's characters terms it, gathering "the sweep of human intelligence with the computation speed of the computer".

I've enjoyed her previous books for the way that the sweep of human history touches and turns the intimate lives of her characters.

This individual situation depicts the catastrophe of a specific historical moment - the Irish Famine - and makes it feel part of a larger sweep of human history.

The risk in this approach is that it will sweep all of human life and suffering into a vast empathetic net that slights differences and detail — which are, after all, at the heart of empathy.

Although Specter accurately conveys my views on the over-all role of viruses in the evolution of life (including human life), I do not believe that the current H.I.V. epidemic in Africa is expected to cause a selective sweep of this human population.

By our lights today, 150 years is a long time, but against the long sweep of total human history a change of this magnitude was quite rapid.

Gruen's busy novel, which concerns six bonobos and the people who conduct language studies with them, addresses a vast sweep of animal-human issues.

In addition, soft sweeps could explain the apparent speed of human evolution, because they work on the genetic variation already present in a population, without having to wait for a novel mutation to arise.