Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Robinson Crusoe 4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision.
This is the swiftest of visions, but it allows McNamer to lay out the landscape of her storytelling — the closely observed Montana terrain, where so much of the novel's action will take place, and the untethered, almost speculative air space marked by history and vast ambition.
"The Light of Day" has no equivalent to Greene's tormented Roman Catholicism: Swift's secular vision of humanity leaves his characters clinging to nothing but one another, a recourse that often proves unreliable.
Natural selection occurs because individuals having more-useful traits, such as more-acute vision or swifter legs, survive better and produce more progeny than individuals with less-favourable traits.
In the unlikely event that President Obama's vision of a swift and final settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict materialises, millions of Palestinians would still live in decaying refugee camps whose inhabitants are forbidden from owning land or participating in normal economic life.
The fierce "Cassandra's Dream" — a tragedy presented as such — is a Dionysian black hole with little redemptive grace; it may be Allen's bleakest film, a vision of life as a swift and desperate plummet through pain into oblivion, and there's nothing detached or self-deprecating about the vision.
The reaction of the Palestinian Authority was swift and accurate: "This man lacks information, knowledge, vision and understanding of this region and its people".
Swift's views were an expression of his own bifurcated vision of Irish writing.
Giacometti's determined, sculptural vision emerges as a clear contrast to Picasso's swift genius.
Coming just 10 years after Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2, still the gold standard for the superhero genre, Webb's steelier, less playful vision can't quite make the case for the bewilderingly swift reboot of this particular franchise.
The survivors recalled a period of shelling and then the swift onset of a grim pattern of symptoms: shortness of breath, disorientation, blurred vision, vomiting, weakness, loss of consciousness..
