Sentence examples for vast heap from inspiring English sources

The killing of Rasputin was the match which set fire to a vast heap of patriotic determination.

He is continually running around his kitchen, instructing underlings and performing odd jobs — say, scraping scraps of foie gras into a vast heap to be made into pâté.

And my reading resolution is simply to work my way through the vast heap of books I laughingly call my To Be Read Pile.

Millennium Dome A billion pounds was spent to achieve a vast heap of patronising gunk, which failed to meet its visitor targets or its lofty aspirations for engendering national pride.

Among the encompassing definitions we could give "the novel" ("a mirror walking down a road," "a narrative of a certain size with something wrong with it") is this: a novel is a vast heap of sentences, like stones, arranged on a beach of time.

Instead the Sirens tempt him with their limpid song, as they sit there in the meadow with a vast heap of moldering corpses, bones on which hangs the shriveled skin".

We're surrounded by vast heaps of plowed snow.

Ryohei Kawanishi's statement about craft and ecology, created as vast heaps of material engulfing the body, was an example of fashion with a mission.

A lot were concerned about waste – the vast heaps of detritus that come with an industrial civilisation, throwing away last year's iPad, or food that's past its sell-by date but otherwise perfectly edible.

Song Dong's mother appears to have followed the directive with unusual zeal, and after his father died in 2002, Song Dong decided her grief might be assuaged if she collaborated with him on a project that would alchemize into art the vast heaps of detritus she had accumulated over decades of state-encouraged hoarding.

That idealised notion of unity and creative progression is usually derailed by rampant egotism and vast heaps of cocaine.