What is "panoramic"

Usage examples of "panoramic".

He went into a ticket office, paid four hundred monits for a one-way trip to Earth, and emerged into a lounge which provided a panoramic view of the myriad ships actually landing and taking off.

Vietnamese animal husbanders were standing behind the new metal fencing when Lieutenant Prout showed them how to stab the Yorkshire hog, so they got an excellent panoramic view of the hog pretending to be a bucking bronco, or one of those Brahma bulls, that jump into the air and simultaneously twist energetically, with enough force to throw Swedish syringes out of their bones if they have any stuck in them.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life--other things superficially, but this always in our depths.

Reunion and being stalled in someplace sweeping and panoramic and unenclosed and ever-growing.

After a panoramic view of the dance floor, the camera zoomed in on one couple, showing a close-up of a man wearing regular untinted glasses, his blond forelocks shaking above their frames in time to the music.

Nonetheless, he showed no interest now to live as Franklin and Adams did in semirural retreat outside Paris, where the panoramic views over the Seine were more like what he was accustomed to at home, and where the rent was appreciably less.

From some high ground affording a wide panoramic view Agassiz would explain to them the formation of lakes, islands, rivers, springs, water -sheds, hills, and valleys.

Though once I pursued intensity as the ultimate goal of granitas, I have found that added water increases the crunchiness of the ice crystals and gives you another, more panoramic, vantage point on the flavorlike stepping back from a painting.

In this passage, Fielding comments on the institution of marriage from a panoramic view, selecting one example to illustrate expositorily what must apply to a great many married couples.

His home was set on the side of a mountain, with a panoramic view of Freiburg lit up in the dark below.

Whether he traces the progress of hostile religions, or leads from the shores of the Baltic, or the verge of the Chinese empire, the successive hosts of barbariansthough one wave has hardly burst and discharged itself, before another swells up and approachesall is made to flow in the same direction, and the impression which each makes upon the tottering fabric of the Roman greatness, connects their distant movements, and measures the relative importance assigned to them in the panoramic history.

When the initial burst of retrofire was finished, the pilot turned the ship to give his passengers a panoramic view of Mars.

How glorious it must have been when all ten of the videocam screens were on and you could get the full panoramic view, turn up the colour brightness, enhance the red tones.

To prevent this problem, both Archduchy and Federation forces planted still and video cameras with panoramic views in combat zones and used them to record the action whenever possible.

Her screen blossoms into panoramic visions of this Earth: penguins porpoising through Antarctic whitecaps, a whole meadow of buttercups opening to the morning sunlight on some alpine meadow, streams of light-touched motes hovering throughout the world of the tropics, mists and steam, glaciers and insects, the eyes of an ocelot, the clashing tusks of love-smitten musk oxen.