Although clearly intended as a sweeping overview, it is more a sweeping glimpse, partial, fragmented and confused.

He didn't get the luxury of handling the sweeping overview.

The narrative gives a sweeping overview of the next few years of the war.

A sweeping and highly readable overview of the continent covering history, environment and anthropology, it is absolutely crammed with well-researched detail, which helps to dispel many a stereotype.

This castlelike structure offers a sweeping overview of Swiss civilization from prehistoric artifacts to medieval art to handicrafts, weaponry, completely furnished rooms and musical instruments.

A narrator, looking back from today's vantage point, provides the sweeping overview.

These stories offer cohesion and structural logic; they allow narrators of even the most sweeping overviews to organize what might otherwise be unmanageable amounts of information.

"I like Business Week for the solid reporting and factual basis and Fortune for the big sweeping overviews of world business trends."

FOR the last few weeks the Microsoft antitrust trial has heard warring economists provide sweeping overviews of each side's case.

Instead, he offered the kind of sweeping overview normally associated with party platforms.