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There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.
Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.
I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.
Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
Women are conditioned to believe Prince Charming is going to come and sweep them off their feet.
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
To play sweep arpeggios correctly, you have to mute each note with the left hand immediately after picking it.
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
It's always thrilling to encounter the sweep of time in a work of fiction in a way that feels authentic and real.
'Mulk' is a film that needed to be made. We can no longer sweep the isolation of the Indian Muslim under the carpet.
Britain's way of dealing with disability is just to try and pretend it's not happening. A swift sweep under the carpet.
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
For teenage kids, they feel a pressure to sweep things under the rug because they feel like they're not important enough to have problems.
Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
The best way to learn sweep picking is to first isolate the right- and left-hand techniques, master them separately and then coordinate them.
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
With 'City of Black & White,' I wanted a record that would make you feel good, that would sort of take you up in its hand and sweep you along.
Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.
Pull and sweep are two shots which can help me score runs outside India. These are two shots that can immediately put pressure back on bowlers.
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
I learned sweep picking from a variety of sources. One was a Frank Gambale instructional video, but he executes his sweeps a little differently.
I think there's a mystery to drawing - to the weight of the lines. The sweep of a line around a corner to create an effect that someone is moving.
In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.
I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.
Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
When people really understand the Big Bang and the whole sweep of the evolution of the universe, it will be clear that humans are fairly insignificant.
I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on. It's a feast.
Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
I never thought I would ever win a Daytona 500. I never thought we would sweep Bristol. I just never thought any of that stuff was going to happen or be possible.
We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.
Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.
The googly and the slider are my favourite type of deliveries, and I love it when batsmen try to cut or sweep me and, while attempting those strokes, get lbw or clean bowled.
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.
When a lot of people watch these Victorian-era shows, they're in love with the costumes, the romance, the whole sweep of it all. But there is nothing nostalgic about 'The Knick' at all.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'