"sweeping observation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a broad or general statement about a topic or situation, rather than a specific or detailed observation. Example: "In his speech, the politician made several sweeping observations about the current state of the economy, but failed to provide any concrete solutions."
Participants were asked about the type of lodging and activities they experienced during their Yosemite visit, particularly actions (e.g., cleaning or sweeping), observations (e.g., mouse droppings), and behavior (e.g., sleeping on the floor) potentially associated with exposure to rodents and SNV.
As Fox may (or may not) be learning, using incomplete data to make sweeping observations may do his cause more harm than good.
According to Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, an English writer who lives in Greece, the eastern Mary "has the austere aloofness of an oriental empress…calm, unreal, hieratic", while in the medieval west her statues seem "almost to woo her devotees…at worst there is a hint of an ogle".Amateur polymaths can allow themselves such sweeping observations.
She gives this exploration depth through small gestures (a mother and a nanny who "almost never touched now that there was no baby to pass back and forth") and through sweeping observations ("To call the scene plain does not quite catch its essence," Helen remarks, visiting her brother's grave in a field of white crosses near Bologna. "It's almost nothing, but nothing multiplied and multiplied").
Yet it has a dazzling quality that I have come to associate solely with the new generation of animators and FX stylists, a fleetness and lightness in the way it switches from the close-up on a deft little sight gag or a sweet character observation, sweeping out for a breathtaking panorama of an extraterrestrial landscape imagined with passionate detail and specificity.
In 1970, Dr. Soleri began building Arcosanti, a planned community with observation towers, sweeping concrete vaults and dwellings clustered along the steep basalt cliffs of the Agua Fria River.
"That's how it is at pretty much every gym," Ngo says, when I bring up my casual observations and sweeping generalizations.
At the refuge entrance, an observation deck offers sweeping views of the point.
After the hotel's grand reopening, the National Park Service, which has had a small presence at the building, will continue to maintain a modest museum about the structure and to take tourists on an elevator to its 270-foot high observation deck for sweeping views of the nation's capital.
Atop the home, an observation deck takes in sweeping views.
