That leaves Mr. Mortier plenty of room to experiment and to place his spectacles in nicely intimate theaters within the vast surrounding industrial spaces.
In Polk County, at Lake Alfred, though, I happened into the University of Florida's Citrus Experiment Station, five buildings isolated within vast surrounding groves.
Whitman's "noiseless patient spider" comes to mind: "It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament out of itself" onto the blank page, a "vacant vast surrounding".
This image of Mexico City clearly shows the difference between the densely built-up city centre and the vast surrounding vegetation.
The outlying portions of al-Ghūtah and a vast surrounding district constitute another governorate, Rīf Dimashq (Rural Damascus), of which Damascus city is the capital.
The level nature of the vast surrounding plains, combined with seasonal rainfall, results in widespread flooding during the rainy season (April to November).
Tom, traumatised on the western front, takes a job as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, 100 miles off the Australian coast between the Indian and Southern oceans, where he hopes that the vast surrounding emptiness will bring him peace.
Even after only those few hours with Marilyn, she had taken on an immanence in my imagination, the vitality of a force one does not understand but that seems on the verge of lighting up a vast surrounding plain of darkness.
