Panoramic, multi-faceted, his sweeping, well-paced narrative balances Paris and St Petersburg, London and Vienna (and not forgetting Washington), with awesome command.
In the case of The Talented Mr. Ripley, then, he somehow conspires to remould Highsmith's snappy pulp thriller into a sweeping, well-toned examination of class envy and identity.
At the end of the work he made a pronouncement that was sweeping as well as grim: "In the long sequence of interaction and fusion between Orient and Occident out of which our civilization has grown, the crusades were a tragic and destructive episode".
And not just any dress: a floor-sweeping (well, it would be if she weren't wearing platform bovver boots that render her 6ft 4in) oyster silk number, with tiny straps and a cutaway back, exposing yet more of that flawless amber hide.
More important, however, is a pronounced wedge shape: The entire car appears to arch forward, with the mass of the trunk and rear tire well sweeping to an ever-thinning hood.
Feinstein has asked for creation of a Mojave Trails National Monument, which would connect the Mojave National Preserve with Joshua Tree, adding protections to federal lands that encompass sweeping vistas as well as habitats for such species as the desert tortoise and bighorn sheep.
While 76% of Americans support Obama's dedication to changing the American health care system to a system with lower costs and increase access, skepticism persists over the viability of sweeping reforms as well as the role of lobbyists and interest groups in sculpting the minutia of the bill.
But later scholars found the idea to be too sweeping as well as smacking of a spirit of Western superiority.
The wholesale resignation of his cabinet on June 23rd has forced him into a sweeping reshuffle well ahead of July 28th, when Peruvians celebrate independence and, by tradition, ministers get shifted round.Finding competent new ones will be tough.
Of course, I had a chance to add more paint to my painting pants and do some sweeping as well.
Members of the international team that produced the report said Arctic climate change is likely to have broad and sweeping repercussions well outside of the Far North.
