The sweeping narrative is true to the grandeur of the biblical setting yet intimate.

"In the Shadow of War" is his effort to synthesize that thinking into a sweeping narrative of recent history, from the New Deal to now.

In 1996 Richard Brookhiser said this "cranky and sweeping" narrative "goes a long way to show that the bust has shoulders of clay."

It's also a sweeping, ambitious narrative that moves from the provinces to the theater district of Shanghai and back again.

In a sweeping narrative built around four powerful central bankers, Ahamed describes the cascading series of events that led to the Great Depression.

During 2011, Sæther produced lyrics for a sweeping narrative, thus making the album version a concept album.

There's a part of me that's drawn to kind of big stories, sort of epicness - this sense of this sweeping narrative.

They contain sweeping, but relatively straightforward, narratives of good versus evil.

"Park has fashioned a dense, sweeping narrative," Lauren Belfer said here last year.

They are not so much obsessed by the word as by words themselves, in poems and stories, compressed lyrics and large sweeping narratives.