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Before you even get to questions about how Milton's vast forest of words could be pruned, or how his sumptuous, simile-laden grand style might be rendered as speech, there's the leviathan immensity of the action, isn't there? Goold thinks the triumph of computer-generated effects in the cinema in recent years has released theatre from any obligation to be literal in its visuals.

''The truth is, the vast majority of foreign workers in America are from Mexico.'' However, Bush predicted, ''There will be politics probably involved in whether or not it passes Congress.'' Fox gave the proposal his cautious support last week, though Thursday, speaking at a school in Mexico City, Fox suggested it fell short.

The proletarian class is vast and mostly powerless.

The same goes for Dante, Petrarch, the Renaissance, vast chunks of our inheritance.

In the rejected version (and more still on the laser disc and earlier film prints), the contrast between dark and light is glaring; the characters' faces seem harsh, their vast palaces icy.

It is a stunningly vast view.

I cannot prove the following assertion, but you can paint me yellow and call me a Hummer if it is not true: that his vast and vaunted Internet congregation is composed principally of little faith types.

They grew up in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, where Walter Dell'Oro was charting for the first time the vast, oil-rich Arabian peninsula.

A vast majority of the nuggets are about Weinstein, with Redford in distant second place.

This plan took realistic account of Sparta’s vast superiority on land and of the fragility of the Spartan Alliance: the Athenians would simply ship in their grain, while harrying the coastal cities of the Peloponnese until the Spartan Alliance disintegrated.

In their moment of total defeat, Nicias urges his troops to place their trust in “hope,” “fortune,” and the gods—the very things that the Melians, facing obliteration at the hands of a vastly more powerful enemy, had trusted in, to the derisive amusement of the Athenians during the Melian debate.

He was remorselessly on, obviously eager to occupy as vast a space around him as he possibly could.

This was the era of The Thousand and One Nights and of vast public libraries.

At Dunwich it covered vast swathes of the marshland threatening the existence of rare birds such as bitterns and kingfishers and mammals such as otters and water voles.

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