The row of mansion sites facing the cathedral promised a sweeping prospect far superior to the crowded lots along Fifth Avenue, and they soon sold out.
The Pinecone uses Losh and her church as the intimate foil for a magnificent sweeping prospect of the natural and intellectual landscape of the late-18th and early-19th centuries, incorporating geology, the industrial revolution, the coming of the railways, trends in antiquarianism and architecture, changing perspectives on female education – and the Afghan war.
It occupies much of the ground floor of the Legal Center in Riverfront Plaza, an imposing if faceless new office tower midway between Penn Station and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and it has one of the best views of any restaurant in the state: a sweeping northward prospect, through a wall-sized mullioned window, toward the arts center and the city's redeemed, shimmering skyline.
Without sweeping reform an unlikely prospect in an election year the next president will see similar numbers in 2009.
Outside, a sweeping mountain view.
As the prospect for sweeping victories in Afghanistan recedes and administrative, rather than military, skills are sought, many veteran fighters have begun to look to new ideological battlefronts.
The prospect of sweeping cuts to public investment in the arts seems to have prompted, if not exactly an identity crisis, then certainly a bit of soul-searching.
Baron Cohen's visit led, in turn, to a wave of euphoria sweeping Grimsby at the prospect of the full cast and crew of a serious Hollywood "happening" rolling up to give the town a little taste of the high life.
By the end of it, Gore had a new, sweeping view of the world and its prospects.
Just as he surveyed the mostly peaceful and prosperous nineteen-nineties and saw grave dangers, Gingrich, a professor and a ravenous student of history, reviews the war on terror and discerns, even with the Northern Alliance sweeping across northern Afghanistan, the prospect of long-term failure.
The Odessa clashes spread the violence from the eastern separatist heartland to an area far from the Russian frontier, raising the prospect of unrest sweeping more broadly across a country of around 45 million people the size of France.
