Sentence examples for sweeping description from inspiring English sources
It augments the usual sweeping description of our pueblo beginnings, through orange groves and oil wells, Hollywood, to the inimitable California lifestyle.
The Syrian government delegation pushed for initial discussions of "terrorism," its sweeping description of the armed uprising against Assad's autocratic rule.
In his foreword, Porter sets the stage for Hung's 357 aphorisms with a brief and sweeping description of the rise of Chinese philosophy.
In that book, dreams took us deep into the main character's past, and they offered sweeping descriptions of the Gulf Coast, a region that Watson, a Mississippi native, describes with the combined powers of a botanist and a draftsman.
The sweeping descriptions of crowds and dry-goods displays justify Zola's characterization of the novel as "a poem of modern activity".
It is, in every way, a wonderful debut.The other big discovery at Udine was also a first feature, also realist and also with Dickensian undertones, though in this instance it is the Dickens of intense domestic drama and high-powered melodrama rather than sweeping social description.
Staff job descriptions range from sweeping floors and driving our van, to engineering, designing and managing projects.
Toffler's description of a nation bewildered by the rapid changes sweeping the globe made him a household name.
Senator Angus King (I-Maine) told The Takeaway on Friday that he feels treason could be a fitting description for Snowden's decision to leak information about sweeping U.S. surveillance efforts.
The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger's sweeping piece in The New York Review of Books begins with a description of the bizarre destruction of computers at the newspaper's offices at the hands of the British government.
