Sentences with phrase «vast crowd»

When it comes to the world of dating, the internet landscape is almost as vast the crowds of people looking to meet that special someone.

From vast crowds to monolithic architecture, Gursky's scenes have all the sublimity and horror of 19th - century landscape paintings — but are all the more affecting for showing us the world as we know it.

This technology can be used for applications as diverse as tourism or thwarting terrorists because of its uncanny ability to detect a suspicious person in vast crowds.

WASHINGTON — Standing before vast crowds from Washington to Los Angeles to Parkland, Fla., the speakers — nearly all of them students, some still in elementary school — delivered an anguished and defiant message: They are «done hiding» from gun violence, and will «stop at nothing» to get politicians to finally prevent it.

St John Paul - whose feast we mark in October - was a much - televised figure and drew vast crowds on world pilgrimages.

John Paul was pope from 1978 until his death in 2005, and was in a way the first rock star pontiff, drawing vast crowds as he criss - crossed the globe.

Polls around the world show approval ratings that would be the envy of any politician or celebrity, while vast crowds show up in Rome for even his most routine activities.

The courageous Archbishop who celebrated Mass in the open air was the one who finally blessed the great new church — on a day of great joy and pouring rain with vast crowds attending — and who would later give that courage to the wider Church on his election to the Papacy as John Paul II.

After all, in both versions of the story the disciples seem to have no idea of what Jesus is capable of doing to feed vast crowds.

«We knew already there was a passionate inner circle of people - librarians, teachers, university professors - who upheld children's literature but also realized there was a whole vast crowd of people who aren't quite giving children's book their due,» he said.

Attracting vast crowds and selling out in stores all over Europe in just a matter of hours, a breathtaking 325,000 units were sold in the first two days making it the fastest selling home console in history.

The power of modern consoles allows game designers to create rousing scenes of vast crowds moving effortlessly through huge, elaborate, detailed worlds.

Already much of what he achieved has become part of our Catholic culture, and somehow now just seems normal - World Youth Days, vast open - air Masses, informal Papal question - and - answer sessions with the media, and an understanding of the Petrine task as something vigorously missionary that involves preaching to vast crowds on every continent.

There was no violence from the vast crowds.

Theatres and circus tents were employed to gather the vast crowds pressing in to hear the gospel.

When he celebrated the first Mass of his visit, at Bellahouston Park, before a vast crowd, with everyone roaring out glorious hymns, the style of the visit was established.

The University has recently opened a Benedict XVI Centre specialising in Catholic social teaching, and is proud of its particular links with Pope Emeritus Benedict, who addressed a vast crowd of children gathered there from schools across Britain on his State Visit in 2010.

9 After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb.

Picture... before your eyes Elijah and the vast crowd standing around him, and the sacrifice lying on the altar of stones.

There was enough and to spare for all the vast crowd; and I would be lacking in my duty as a veracious reporter of the event if I failed to say, that «the hospitable board fairly groaned beneath the load of good things,» etc..

And the Chinese Bandits blocked a punt, recovering the ball on the Duke two to set up a touchdown, which they subsequently scored themselves to the great delight of the vast crowd.

But it wasn't just the manufacturers who were happy, Michael Mann, Communications Manager for Bennetts Insurance said: «The BMF Show has been a successful outing for us as it offered the ideal opportunity to talk to our fellow bikers and I'm sure the event's slick organisation accounted for the vast crowds.»

«Awesome» has become a common descriptor, yet genuine awe is a profound emotion: the intake of breath at a starry night sky, goose bumps during soaring music or tearing up at the sight of a vast crowd holding candles aloft.

I can report with little fear of contradiction that it is a funny business, wandering alone and for hours through a vast crowd of identical twins.

The stage is set for an almighty football showdown between the bronze age and the stone age in front of a vast crowd, and there's some very funny incidental material involving early commentators and action replays.

While Jeffers heads a huge church, his sermons carried on a TV screen for a vast crowd, Toller is at the helm of a miniscule Dutch Reformed Church built during the mid-18th century.

There is not a wasted word in the script nor does cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi get a moment to rest as his camera weaves and bobs whether in Pat's home, outdoors on the jogging path, or amid a vast crowd waiting to attend the football game.

As 2011 came to close and predictions were made for the future of the publishing industry, several sources within the industry supported the idea that transmedia reading was going to see huge gains in popularity this year as readers come to expect more from the technology behind e-reading and as authors and publishers clamor to stand out in the vast crowd of ebooks.

Everything and More (2015) mixes up footage shot at a space - station research facility, a vast crowd at an E.D.M. concert and low - tech galactic abstractions fashioned from household products and filmed with a slow motion camera.

IB: When you see these vast crowds at the Tate and they're kind of looking at the art over their shoulder, sometimes you long for the old days of empty galleries.

And while it doesn't immediately stand out from the vast crowd of Android - powered slabs, it does feel remarkably solid and well - made, much like Huawei's last «phablet» style device.