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".
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.
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.
I am only partially comforted by the knowledge that whole swaths of "Britain" – the alternative country you can read about in the newspapers – are apparently still not coping with the vastness of it all.
McCormack's name was, and is, synonymous with the vastness of IMG, the sports and entertainment conglomerate that represents athletes, broadcasters and the Nobel Foundation; produces sports television programs; consults corporations; and runs modeling agencies, sports events and sports academies.
The popularity of the picture, which has been colorized, satirized, burlesqued with the Muppets and turned into a life-size sculpture by Sergio Furnari, is partly about the casual recklessness of its subjects: The beam on which they sit seems suspended over an urban abyss, with the vastness of Central Park spread out behind them and nothing, seemingly below.
