Sentence examples for wider sweep from inspiring English sources

Just as Modern Life reflected a specific part of Blur's adolescence in crystallised detail, their new opus takes in a far wider sweep of their teenage obsessions.

Once or twice the wider sweep of the narrative snags on local oddities: among Harkaway's many enthusiasms is an attachment to the recherché, or just the slightly odd.

As part of the wider sweep of anticommunist activities of the postwar period, the Hollywood blacklist brought media workers into the web of suspicion and fear that characterized the era.

But any suggestion that Britain could also have intercepted the calls of German politicians or officials – even if only as part of a much wider sweep of the German capital – would prove damaging.

As he recalled in one letter, "The pervasive racial materialism in the Movement would require me to give only half of the truth to my comrades as to my own racial biology, but I felt that in the wider sweep of things this would not matter".

Kert Davies of Greenpeace said: "The organisations eliminated in this latest rounds of cuts could be called the engine room of the climate sceptic industry, but if Rex Tillerson [head of ExxonMobil] is serious about his company shaking off this shameful legacy, he needs to make a wider sweep".

How Americans view surveillance programs, though, varies considerably depending on how people are asked about them, with most willing to accept intelligence focused on terror suspects but warier about wider sweeps.

"But in the wide sweep of things, he didn't really change Washington that much".

The military had launched a wide sweep to capture the bombers, Turkish authorities said.

It's so close to the wide sweep of Druridge Bay that salt water seeps into it, forming a unique habitat.

Mayer's wide sweep, unsentimental and uneven, helps explain both her contemporary appeal and, perhaps, her relative obscurity.