Next, his eyes would glaze over and he would wave his hand in the air to encompass the vast, palatial confines of our two-bedroom Upper West Side apartment and all the pleasures of modern life it contained.
The subject being so vast, he confines himself here mainly to that portion concerned with star-streaming, and considers the questions, What has the discovery of star-streaming done, and, What does it promise to do for the solution of the problems (1) that of the distance, and (2) that of the history or evolution of the stellar system.
Because, in the end, the fluctuations of human nature and human emotion are at once too slight and too vast to confine to pen and paper.
These juxtapositions — vast nature scenes confined to two dimensions — were noticed by Mark Lyon, who photographed them.
Burke, who has died aged 70, was indeed vast, and was confined to a wheelchair in his later years after his weight rose to an alarming 30 stone.
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States embarked upon a strange social experiment without precedent in its history and never tried in any other democratic country: to confine vast segments of its population to prisons and jails.
The game changing potential of compressed natural gas with its attractive price and its vast reserves within the confines of the United States.
The coldblooded terrorist attacks in Tel Aviv this week served as a chilling reminder of the summer of 2014, when a steady rain of terrorist rockets from Gaza confined the vast majority of the Israeli population to bomb shelters and protected rooms.
"Gaza is Israel's Warsaw -- a vast concentration camp that confined and blockaded Palestinians," the professor wrote.
Her English was small and her story was vast and bewildering, straining the confines of any language.
