Sentence examples for sweeping period from inspiring English sources

Whether dealing in sweeping period drama ("To Live"), rural neorealism ("Not One Less"), swordplay ("House of Flying Daggers") or state-sanctioned spectacle (the opening broadcast of the 2008 Beijing Olympics), he has exhibited just about every imaginable directorial trait except a sense of humor.

If you were to name the ideal ingredients for an Oscar winner, "Cold Mountain" would have them all: a best-selling novel, an Oscar-winning writer and director, three glamorous movie stars and a studio that knows how to sell sweeping, period stories, from "The English Patient" to "Shakespeare in Love".

During this sweeping period, oxidized Cu ions were injected into the SiO x thin film.

For the premium channel that has steadily crafted a brand of sweeping period dramas, "Survivor's Remorse" marks a toe-dipping back into the comedy waters.

This was a long-developing hot-property project, with the kind of subject matter a sweeping period romance and love-triangle costume drama set in the Netherlands at the height of tulip mania that traditionally has Oscar voters salivating in Pavlovian response.

Thirty-three of the city's 59 community board districts have switched to the shorter sweeping periods; the rest will do so within two years.

But in spite of its sweeping views, period details and architectural significance, the auction hasn't yet resulted in a sale.

Capital One Cup semi-final first leg ends in a draw Bolasie levelled midway through the second period, sweeping into the corner after the ball fell to him on the edge of the area.

Like many in their neighborhood, Mr. Vader and Mr. Henderson — who have lived for 15 years in a grand traditional apartment with a sweeping circular staircase, period paintings and a shaggy-leaved ficus named Tina (as in Turner) — at first staunchly opposed the idea of a totem of modern architecture being planted in the heart of their beloved Brownstone Brooklyn.

The program was an immersion in Romanticism and post-Romanticism rather than a sweeping mix of periods.

BETWEEN them Brian Mulroney, a Conservative, and Jean Chrétien, a Liberal, governed Canada for almost two decades until 2003, a period of sweeping changes.