Sentence examples for sweeping whole from inspiring English sources

It was for only a fleeting moment, but the questions inspired deep thought and a reflective poise on Matthew Kaphan's part, his mind sweeping whole epochs of history.

And they carried off the project in splendid fashion, though what came through most strongly were those brilliant formative moments and threads rather than grand, sweeping wholes, largely because of unevenesses among the vocal soloists.

He did so swiftly and methodically, sweeping away whole layers of managers and directors.

The flooded highway has cut off residential areas for the foreseeable future, sweeping up whole willow and cottonwood trees as if they were twigs.

The momentousness of the event is clear, even though Egypt seems to be still locked in an impasse on the 16th day of the massive protests sweeping the whole country.

It also provides a fascinating potted history of Japanese development after the second world war and the unique way they dealt with the generational struggles that were sweeping the whole world.

"Anarchism," for Chesterton, has the same resonance that "terrorism" has for English writers like Amis and Hitchens exactly a century later: it represents a kind of vengeful, all-devouring nihilism that is assumed to be pervasive and — this is the crucial thing — profoundly seductive, sweeping through whole classes, of intellectuals, or immigrants, or, especially, immigrant intellectuals.

The only vehicles up here are 4x4s that look like they've seen combat; the only shops are 220km south in Broome; and the only thing to worry about is the faint chance of a tsunami sweeping the whole lot away.

In a nutshell: Persian heroism Curators: Ori Scialom, Roy Brand, Keren Yeala-Golan A room-sized printer scrolls across a bed of sand in the Israeli pavilion, its metal stylus inscribing a network of dots and circles, charting the arcs and grids of an urban plan, before sweeping the whole thing away – and starting all over.

He jabs it at the aud-ience with ev-ery stressed syll-able, and – when he's at a rolling boil – ends any given sentence by sweeping his whole hand briskly across and out to his right as if to say: done, dismissed, no questions, point made.

Venmo seemed intent on sweeping the whole situation under the rug rather than being up front with developers.