Fricke praised the album's centerpiece, "Telegraph Road", which he characterized as a "challenge to the average pop fan's attention span" with its "historic sweep and intimate tension".

Labor's projected majority of 150 seats over all other parties in Parliament would be greater than its historic sweep in 1945 or Margaret Thatcher's in 1983.

Mr. Bush's challenge on the Normandy coast was to place his campaign against terrorism within D-Day's historic sweep, without drawing the parallel too ostentatiously.

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Defining his presidency with historic sweep, he suggested that Mr. Kerry would falter in the face of the continuing threat to the United States.

Poonia led the historic clean sweep of the discus event by clearing 61.5 meters.

Entering the final leg of a triumphant tropical cruise, they are now the ones eyeing a historic sweep of the area.

Though the show's historic sweep goes back to the earliest days of slavery, every scene throbs with a visceral sense of the contemporary.

This is a story of personal struggle and redemption as well as one of historic sweep and ambition.

Tuscany is next door, with the art and shopping of Florence and the historic sweep of Siena.