Sentence examples for with vastness from inspiring English sources

His name has become synonymous with vastness of scale at every level: Chicago's Cloud Gate (2004-6) is not merely a 10-metre by 20-metre ellipse of polished steel, it also cost $23m to make.

IT is with vastness and stillness that Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" excites an audience, and those qualities are gloriously, thrillingly evident in the newly restored version opening at Film Forum on Friday, 35 years after its initial New York run.

Although skin is the perfect thematic focus for an examination of contemporary design, this show feels skimpy compared with the vastness of its subject, with the mesmerizing displays in high-end design stores and even with its own lavish catalog.

Maybe it has something to do with the vastness of Russia's geography or with the bloody absolutism of its history, but it's always been easier to contemplate a new master of the Kremlin by seizing on homey anecdotes.

Our fascination with the vastness of English, Mr. Nunberg said, springs from a kind of linguistic imperialism — a feeling that "our dictionaries are bigger than their dictionaries".

Edmund Burke "contrasted the smallness, the lightness and the pleasurableness of the Beautiful with the vastness, the obscurity, the painfulness of the Sublime," Mr. Taruskin writes.

By that time you have the definite impression that Ms. Smith, confronted with the vastness of her subject, has lost control of her material.

Façades were impenetrable buildings were often entered through courtyards and this, combined with the vastness of distances, kept people from clogging the streets.

If the Earth is placed in context with the vastness of what we see, the Earth becomes as an inconsequential speck of dust.

There is a colloquy between the Lord of the Yellow River and the God of the Eastern Ocean, in which the complacent self-satisfaction of the lesser spirit is shaken by his unexpected meeting with inconceivable vastness.

At every turn, the smallness contrasts with the vastness of climate-change projects — the mammoth wind turbines, the horizon-reaching solar farms, the globe-encircling clouds of reflective particles that geoengineers envision.