The aptly named (by history, anyway) Peter the Great had vast vision, boundless energy and compelling powers of persuasion.
He gestures toward three compass points on the urban horizon, like a Robert Moses conjuring up a vast metropolitan vision of massive public works: highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, shipping piers and parks.
(In the latter regard, he differs sharply from his contemporary Andreas Gursky, whose vast, splashy visions of globalized commerce are entertaining but — literally — unbelievable).
Where Scorsese, an unflinching realist, sees an unbreakable cycle of ambition and avarice, Lee takes a daring leap into political fantasy to offer a vast, quasi-utopian vision of a United States in which the cycle of violence is broken.
The film extends beyond the bounds of its intimate action to conjure a vast, resonant, overarching vision of a world at large, of the times as filtered through a single consciousness and its unconscious overtones, emanations, reverberations, and premonitions.
Charlie Paton, a British inventor, has a vision of vast "seawater greenhouses" to grow food and generate power.
They are the vision of globalisation: vast, impersonal and straining hard not to be brash.
Salgado, in that instant when "photography freezes things", transmits his own vision of a vast, suffering, interlinked planet.
A vision of a vast and wide-open America was part of my childhood, gleaned from literature and photographs and, above all, Westerns.
