wide-stretching

To help the cast connect with Proulx’s story of a cowboy and a ranch hand falling in love against the wide-stretching landscapes of 1960s Wyoming, black-and-white photographs of American plains and mountain ranges were tacked to the walls during rehearsals.

Then one day, out of the wide-stretching blue of an Eastern Oklahoma sky, Fine’s phone rang.

We can be outraged about what the FBI found: a wide-stretching scam that involved parents paying for their children’s test scores and athletic abilities to be falsified so that those children could attend schools such as Yale, Stanford and USC.

He, who has firmly established the tottering earth and arrested the quivering mountains; he who has fixed the extent of the wide-stretching atmosphere, and who has propped up the sky,—O man, it is Indra!

Stretching away from it were fine park-lands, and beyond these were wide-stretching woods.