vastness

Example Sentences

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He summons a gentler touch to pay tribute to the vastness of Shakespeare’s empathy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let alone millennia.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Despite the vastness of space and the complexities of our problems, that answer alone offers fuel for the fire of hope and wonder Carl Sagan ignited in me long ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Really, I think, the vastness of today and what we are looking at as far as the future for all of us is just so twisted in turmoil.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

It takes some getting accustomed to the fact that the minuscule times and distances of microphysics as well as the vastness of astronomical phenomena share the dimensions of our human world.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos