But a small book about a large idea cannot - indeed, should not - take on such a burden.

Personal experiences and first-person narrative can be great, particularly when they're in service to a larger idea.

Some of the writers felt that having Homer go into space was too large an idea.

The full picture is hard to discern, much less the larger idea.

Since joining the Senate, he has never attached himself to an idea or movement larger than his own career advancement.

He is handy with large ideas about the nature of art and what jazz means to America.

His friends say that he may have been a bad man, but he certainly had large ideas.

But the length promises larger ideas than the film finally delivers.

The majority must now rally to another large idea.

The patterns come sometimes as metaphors, or specific words which express larger ideas.