The Seine, here of immense breadth, at first slightly curving runs for the last mile above Surennes in one long straight reach, with a bank rising on one side and a long line of trees and willows on the other.
The result was a project of immense breadth and scale, producing almost 22,000 images over five years that spanned the continent, from kitsch New York suburbia to polluted Louisiana beaches; sprawling Texas motorways to chemical spills in Kentucky; sun-bleached farmers in Minnesota to black muslims in Chicago.
This essay, from For the Time Being (1989), offers an in-depth examination of the life and thought of the Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – a thinker of immense breadth and depth whose writing, like Dillard's, walks a line between materialism and mysticism.
So how did they create an album of such immense breadth and beauty from curios found in op-shop bargain bins?
To be sure, each essay demonstrates an immense breadth of learning, and there are occasional moments of fine phrasing, as when Mr Coetzee observes of Jorge Luis Borges's teasing fiction that it "takes its course with the certainty of a game of chess in which the reader is always a move behind the author".
The other day I was trying to reclassify some of my music, and I realized terms like Pop, Alternative, and even Rock are poorly suited to today's immense breadth of music offerings (and WTF is Adult Alternative anyway???).
In works from the 80s- Octet: A Grand Fantasia, Oboe Concerto, and Symphonies No. 5 and 6- he synthesized his wanderings through musical time, forging a personal post-tonal language of immense breadth and expressivity.
"Oh, the immense vitality.
The first is the breadth of Medicare.
