grand design

The grand design is all to be enacted at once, in one big bang.

His later ideas appear, beautifully illustrated, in other books: Our Universe in a Nutshell and The Grand Design.

The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, is far more ambitious than that.

Republicans and Tea Baggers saw right through Obama's grand design here.

But an effectual instrument for accomplishing this grand design has ever been wanting.

Dogvane was never allowed to carry out his grand design of covering the naked population of the Soudan in home-made fabrics.

Here he brooded upon the grand design which had long engaged his thoughts.

The grand design of every creature upon earth, is to supply the wants of nature.

No grand design seems to have been followed or a complete record of accomplishments maintained.