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The sweepingness of the assumption completes the flowing breadth of effect.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

The very sweepingness of the assertion, the baldness, and I might say brutality with which it is made, are convincing in their suggestiveness of one who is laughing very quietly in his sleeve.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel

He paused a moment, the least mite taken aback by the sweepingness of his proposition, then glanced belligerently around his little circle of listeners and repeated with emphasis: "No, sir! he'd never die!"

From Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Kelly, Florence Finch

But when he goes on to say that "the sweepingness of the assumption completes the flowing breadth of the effect," he goes very near to talking nonsense.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George