The idea came from a Belgian tourist he met by chance, Roger Van Damme, whose father, a framer, handled "the works of Flemish masters," according to Gandhy's own recollection, transcribed by his granddaughter in a sweeping 2003 essay for Seminar Magazine.
This sweeping compilation of 79 essays, many of which appeared in The Village Voice, celebrates an American art form, profiling luminaries from W. C. Handy to Cassandra Wilson and tracing the music back to its roots in 19th-century minstrelsy.
There can be no definitive answer yet to the question posed by the title of this book; but these essays demonstrate a sweeping advance over the simplistic conception embedded in popular culture.
With anti-communist protests sweeping across the former Soviet Union, the essay seemed right on the money.
The writer of your Nov. 23 Soapbox essay on New Jersey governance uses sweeping generalizations to conclude that savings are possible.
To the Editor: Donadio's essay on the print-on-demand phenomenon sweeping the country highlights a revolution in publishing.
Filmed by legendary mountaineering cinematographer Renan Ozturk, Mountain is an essay-style documentary with minimal dialogue and a rich, sweeping soundtrack from the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
He was an incisive, sometimes dizzyingly erudite writer about his own work and that of others, sweeping from Egyptian funerary practices to Penthouse letters in the space of a single essay.
2. Violin Concerto No 2 (1980): one of McCabe's largest-scale essays for soloist and the orchestra, and one of the most sweeping, epic, and lyrical.
Mr. Swift, in his essays, rarely bothers hunting for the perfect word, settling instead for dull, sweeping generalities.
