Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critics to shift emphasis from a documentary-style montage of vignettes to a focus on a particular family, resembling his own, whose growing deprivation and humiliation reflected the Depression in microcosm. These semiautobiographical characters proved unable by themselves to bear the weight of enormous events; meanwhile, the play's sweep had been diminished, and the tinkering, especially the search for jokes, had drained Clock of guts and vitality...
...real aim of the U.S.F.L. owners may have been not to beat their N.F.L. rivals but to join them. At the very least, figured some U.S.F.L. owners, the older league might be persuaded to take in the most prosperous franchises or even agree to a merger that would sweep in the whole U.S.F.L. There was precedent, after all: the N.F.L. in 1950 absorbed the best teams in the fledgling All-America Football Conference and then in 1966 merged outright with the arrivistes of the American Football League...
Oddly enough, it is this very flaw that enhances the credibility of Red Storm Rising. World War III, by most postulates, is not likely to involve a grand Tolstoyan sweep of personal valor. Arsenals and tactics might indeed be set in motion by the frailties of flesh-and-blood players, but once launched the lethal machines would take on a life of their own--almost like characters in a novel. That possibility, vividly rendered, is what gives Clancy's book such a chilling ring of truth...
Building on a century-old tradition (as early as 1888 there were nearly 500 tennis courts in the country), Czechoslovaks have dominated major tennis competitions in recent years, making a virtual sweep of last year's U.S. Open. Says Frantisek Pala, head coach of the national team: "Twenty years ago, parents told their children, 'Play piano.' Now it's 'Play tennis.' And we are getting results...
...attendees were selected from among some 50,000 evangelists. Global sweep was one of Graham's goals, and it was attained: 185 nations and territories were represented; 80% of the preachers came from developing countries. In Nigeria, for example, organizers had tried to recruit at least one evangelist from each of that huge (pop. 105 million) nation's 137 major tribes, but in the end were able to cover only 136. Said one Graham organizer: "We looked hard for an evangelist from the last tribe, but we just couldn't find one." The throng included members of every sort...