Sentence examples for sweeping in scale from inspiring English sources

The affiliation of the new members and supporters is fleeting and fluid – but can be sweeping in scale as we have seen.

Sweeping in scale but microscopic in its portrait of dislocated lives, this début novel finds its most compelling voice in the rueful meditations of a blundering, morphine-addicted American doctor, marooned by his own volition at the edge of the world.

After an air campaign on Friday, the north's ground forces staged a full-scale invasion of Abyei on Saturday night, with artillery, dozens of tanks and thousands of soldiers sweeping in from several directions.

The book, in its way, sums up Michael Gove: well expressed, modern, sweeping in its scale, thoughtful, and with a modesty of style that obscures the hardness that lies underneath.

October 2 2011 Small-scale opera in New York continues to thrive in the shadow of the Met, and in the nervous chill sweeping in from whatever remains of City Opera.

There will be no "sweeping" in the purpose of misuse.

Do the other side by sweeping in an upwards direction.

Armed with three different types of lights and a Sony a7S camera in Nauticam housing, known for its great low-light filming capabilities, Pedersen films the cave in sweeping cinematic scale.

Therein, as on ancient parchment, he scratched and then erased the names of all the people he had met but never wanted to know save Jack and Jackie Kennedy, step-relations, whose names he dropped whenever he could.He wrote 25 novels, some forgettable, others of sweeping scale and scope, in which factual "memoirs" of great men were intercut with asides by onlookers.

As ever with plans of such sweeping scale, the devil is in the detail.

The sweeping scale of this ambition is barely remarked on in the reporting of politics.