Sheer sonority is one thing, grand expanse another; but in the scherzo of his First Symphony (1888), Mahler drew almost as heavily on Rott's quirky scherzo as Rott had drawn on others.

The central lesson is that even in a place of wondrous scale - a grand expanse of range guarded by 14,000-foot peaks - the world is now much smaller.

And even the grand old expanses of plate glass we used to be so proud of at the other Amberson Mansion--they've gone, too, with the crowded heavy gold and red stuff.

A grand expanse of forest and alps sweeping from Anchorage to Fairbanks and Canada, the Interior has been immortalized by poets, picked over by miners and popularized in the quirky 1990s TV series Northern Exposure.

The area where the assault occurred is one of the most visible sections in the park, a grand expanse of fields where baseball, lacrosse and soccer are played.

He loved the grand expanse of Whitman's verse and that poet's will to embody all experience.

Vintage photographs that hang in the elevator hallways throughout the building show the club's reading room, "ladies' dining room" and smoking room, the last a grand expanse of comfortable club chairs and oval smoking stands.

This grand expanse was designed by Jeffrey Beers, who also created China Grill in the CBS building on the Avenue of the Americas.

But the grand expanse within is deep, luminous, resplendid (sic] red.

Heaths and heathers thrive nicely, and the sturdy plants can fill grand expanses.