Sentence examples for sweeping saga from inspiring English sources

Don Winslow's sweeping saga of money and mayhem at the height of the drug war.

"Nowhere in Africa" is both a sweeping saga and an intimate story about a family vanquishing all odds to survive.

"It's a sweeping saga that's been called 'a universal tale of the destiny of man,"' Ms. Winfrey said in a news release yesterday announcing the selection.

Others welcomed a simpler, more erotic version to introduce non-readers and a younger audience to the sweeping saga, especially the charged sex scene between the married Hélène and her playboy lover Fedya Dolokhov.

Scott's scholarly but accessible style manages to make this sweeping saga enthralling throughout, as he traces the stories of everyone from Hannibal to Confucius, debunking myths and cliches along the way.

I dove into The Source, still one of my all-time favorite books, and was overtaken by the sweeping saga about a subject I knew little of.

Although TNT has shown some small, lyrical films, it is known primarily for its epic westerns ("Crossfire Trail"), gritty biographies ("George Wallace") and sweeping sagas ("The Mists of Avalon").

He wrote sweeping historical sagas, intensely personal novels of self-discovery, and at least one scathing political parable.

The oldest writer, at 73, is Tyler who is nominated for her 20th novel, a sweeping Baltimore family saga packed with dark secrets and lies.

The greatest novel to come out of Kenya is, in my admittedly limited opinion, one of the great novels of the English language, and it is lamentably neglected by literary connoisseurs: Elspeth Huxley's "Red Strangers," a saga sweeping through four generations of a Kikuyu family, based on the author's sympathetic and lifelong familiarity with that tribe.

Soueif's sweeping family saga describes two cross-cultural romances separated by nearly a century.