Sentence examples for vast metropolis from inspiring English sources

It's one thing to create a vast metropolis.

The set-up is hoary — wide-eyed outsider comes to the vast metropolis.

But most parts of Bangkok, a vast metropolis of about eight million people, were calm and unaffected by the protest.

So on Monday, after the Blizzard of '10, with his vast metropolis at a near standstill, our mayor affected insouciance.

The board's defenders argue plausibly that by accommodating the five boroughs' needs, it harmonizes the interests of a vast metropolis.

"We'd been living in this little village and suddenly we were in what felt like a vast metropolis," she remembers.

These vast metropolises have been widely characterized as a nightmarish element of the new century, sprawling and chaotic and spawning waste and illness.

Adapted from a comic book written by Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell possesses many hallmarks of the anime (Japanese animation) genre: vast metropolises, lovingly detailed robots, military hardware, pneumatic women with huge eyes.

Whereas comic-book heroes tend to inhabit vast metropolises crawling with criminals and homicidal scientists, Andy's world is rather like our own, with aliens and robots replaced by petty rivalries and personal anomie.

Both cities are vast metropolises but they offer a very different living experience.

In China's vast metropolises heavy traffic jams and long commute times mean millions spend hours glued to their smartphones and in need of diversion.