big picture

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big′ pic′ture

a broad, overall view or perspective of an issue.

[1955–60]

References in classic literature ?

I saw him myself, standing upon that chair and fixing the big picture above it.

For paper companies, part of that big picture is to define and supply solutions through innovative product strategies.

Frantschach: painting a new "big picture"; the Frantschach Group's recent acquisitions have enlarged and clarified the big picture of supply and demand for the various grades it competes in

Mike Goodridge seemed to miss the big picture in his story "Does MPAA = Most Parents Are Antigay?

The last picture show? (reader forum)

The value of media analysis is not only knowing about your own company and its presence in the media, but also understanding where your company fits into the big picture.

Is Your Company Ready to Go Global?

When Rashid's tooth did fall out, he woke to find his big picture hanging in the center of camp.

A summer of wonder

I have come to the painful conclusion that public policy must look at the total impact of a program, not its impact on isolated individuals; public policy must look at the big picture.

Why we must restigmatize the institution of illegitimacy

An economic consultant has been appointed to complete the next stage of the Kielder Water & Forest Park Big Picture project.

Big Picture project puts Kielder in focus; Column

The project, named the Big Picture and run by the Arts Council England, West Midlands, will result in a mosaic made up of one of eight final photographs selected from those sent in.

Picture-perfect record

The new sites have been designed by Big Picture Interactive, a new media agency based in Leamington Spa.

e-business: Big Picture hatches Creme Egg marketing web sites

Pond, an American journalist who has lived for many years in Germany, looks at the big picture, marvelling at the European `chain of reconciliation'.