Sentences with phrase «far vaster scale»

When people are told to stop watering their lawns because of a water shortage, they escalate (in the manner of sports hyperbole) to use the same word, drought, as is used for far more serious conditions, on a far vaster scale and lasting many years — such as the 1930s Dust Bowl or those three Little Ice Age droughts amidst good times in East Africa, lasting 30, 65, and 80 years.

The theory of evolution now requires us to suppose a far vaster scale of times, spaces, and numbers than our forefathers ever dreamed the cosmic process to involve.

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On far grander scales, this barrenness becomes unimaginably vast.

The vast scale of Nielsen's vision for Endless is evident from the 300sqm stand — by far the largest at the fair — that stretches the length of the back wall in the first hall.

It's not just artistically the game does well, mind you, on a technical level the game also impresses with plenty of detail packed into character models and vast draw distances lending the world a sense of scale via some impressive vistas, even though you are kept to a fairly linear path, a path which happens to also feature warning messages should you stray a bit too far and invisible walls that you can bang your noggin off of, somewhat ruining the nice illusion of wandering through the wilderness.

Ofili further refines his practice in the current exhibition with complexly articulated figures, vast differences in scale, and varying treatments of his materials.

It notes the vast scale of the carbon reservoir beneath the tundra in the far north and the centuries of greenhouse gas emissions that could escape on even modest warming trajectories.

Further, the inertia accumulated by the slowly heating, yet physically vast oceans, means that should large - scale polar melting begin, it will almost certainly be impossible to halt.

«We're really excited about [this project] because it's effectively, as far as we know, the first utility - scale solar - plus - storage project done on a purely commercial basis that is affecting the shift of the vast portion of PV production to the nighttime peak,» Bob Rudd, SolarCity's director of energy storage project development, told the audience at a recent storage conference.