The phrase
"whole sweep" means capturing or including everything or everyone within a particular area, category, or range. It refers to a thorough or comprehensive coverage or examination.
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Sentences with «whole sweep»
- Routines, he insists, should take into account seasons as well as minutes and hours, and people should plan with the whole sweep of a year's changes in mind. (inc.com)
- In Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination, he devises an elaborate framework to categorize passages from the whole sweep of Western literature: poems, novels, short stories, plays, essays, memoirs, and letters - whether in Latin, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, English, German, or Russian. (firstthings.com)
- Here Robert Barron certainly overlaps with and touches upon a key element in the Faith Movement's presentation of Salvation History, seeing the whole sweeping panorama of world history as orientated towards the Incarnation, and of course, in a very particular and guided way, the history of Israel which was to be the custodian for mankind of God's self - revelation and of the promise of the Messiah, the Lord of creation. (faith.org.uk)
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