Sentences with phrase «glimpse of the big picture»

The Olympics reminded me that smetimes we just got ta step back for a minute, catch a glimpse of the big picture, and celebrate one another's somersaults.

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This lyrical and accessible picture book gives kids a glimpse of what scientists do in the real world and inspires them to dream of accomplishing BIG things.

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The pictures collected by the Planck satellite provided astrophysicists at the conclave in Ferrara, Italy, with a glimpse into the past by using radio receivers to capture the remnants of microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang.

To start understanding it yourself, you'll need a big - picture glimpse of your digestive system — specifically the colon.

A glimpse of Leonardo DiCaprio, Uma Thurman and Spike Jonze thrilled the celebrity hounds; the presence of Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, Raf Simons and Calvin Klein underscored art as fashion; Eli Broad led off the big collectors, and star artists were represented by Eric Fischl, who prowled the aisles with his camera, documenting the fair itself as a big installation as he snapped pictures for his upcoming show on people at art fairs.

Her first L.A. solo show, at Honor Fraser in 2008, leaned mostly toward flash — big canvases, a blaring neon palette, heaps of stylishly graffiti - inflected activity buzzing across the surface of the picture plane — complicated by glimpses of what looked to be a soundly developing painterly intelligence.

For example, Splendor (2001), evokes a sense of glimpsing the cross section of dozens of crushed stones and gems packed tightly together, the universe shortly after the Big Bang, a picture of dark matter moving across time and space, a light - sensitive view of a subatomic world, dozens of different pigments suspended in a translucent material, rivulets of calligraphically inflected color swirling slowly.

Sometimes it's hard to poke your head out of your day - to - day reality and glimpse the big picture that is your overall job satisfaction.