Without lots of minute research, the grand syntheses that Schama cherishes would be impossible.

Kemp believes in the grand synthesis, the higher goal that unites warring parties.

That a passionate conservative can embrace the civil-rights movement is also an instance of the grand synthesis that makes Kemp a different kind of Republican.

The companion format is certainly a poor vehicle for grand syntheses.

They would claim to have solved everything--to have wrapped up all known problems in one grand synthesis.

The arts complex itself is a grand artistic synthesis - an opera, or Gesamtkunstwerk, in Wagner's term - of pre-electronic communications.

Of course the implications of that knowledge could be vast, but no one expected grand syntheses to emerge.

Rembrandt is the exhibition's drawing card; his art is the grand synthesis of richly painted surfaces in the service of the ordinary.

Obama's reluctance to articulate a grand synthesis has alienated both realists and idealists.