It won't be enough to focus on the post-2020 big picture, to come up with sweeping, stirring policy declarations – against privatisation, for council housing, for a full living wage – if the party fails to engage in the detail of the day-by-day dismantling of the 1948 welfare state under the flag of continuing austerity.
Longer than three hours, it's more marathon than sprint, but director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's epic "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag" (Run, Milkha, Run) — about India's legendary track-and-field star Milkha Singh, nicknamed "The Flying Sikh" — is often an engrossing example of the sweeping, stirring biography.
When Abeeba arrived at Samadu's house, a number of housewives and young women were busily doing their morning chores in and around the compound — some sweeping and stirring up dust, others fetching water from the tap in the compound's center or lighting up charcoal pots to warm the food left over from the previous night.
The piece is beautiful — stirring, sweeping — and at the same time a little odd.
Sweeping narratives and stirring stories are back - witness the amazing TV success of Simon Schama and other stars.
Instead, the leading compositions will feature sweeping orchestral strings, stirring choral harmonies and quickening trumpets which bring pathos and excitement to on-screen battles in much the same way they do for films.
During the white-hot period of 2003-5 this already uniquely Ruff Sqwad sound expanded into something much more grandiose: palatial synth melodies, sweeping clifftop strings, and stirring military brass – instrumentals big, bold and detailed enough to stand up on their own, even while their functional purpose was a backdrop for live or radio MC-ing.
1620: After sweeping aside Northampton in a stirring comeback this time last year, Leinster are aiming to become only the second side to successfully defend the trophy, racking up a third win in four years in the process.
The result is poetic, stirring, and gorgeous, a sweeping vision of fiery apocalypse and Herzog's finest documentary since 2007's memorable Encounters at the End of the World.
Lardner, son of the sainted Ring, was a twenty-nine-year-old boxing writer and Newsweek columnist when, in 1943, he went to Australia, New Guinea, and Papua to cover the Allies' first stirrings of resistance to sweeping early defeats by the Japanese.
Perry Seibert of Allmovie gave the film four-and-a-half stars, praising the band's performance and the venue's role in the concert, saying, "the historic Red Rocks venue provides a stirring backdrop for the band's sweeping sound".
