I was pointing to the sweeping generalisation made by the Editor.

After all no one could make such sweeping generalisations and hope to be thought of as rationale.

It cuts both ways, of course, and sweeping generalisations about white people are not unknown.

So your actual formula is correct, but the sweeping generalisation wrong.

It is wrong to make sweeping generalisations about any race, creed, or culture.

I know that's a sweeping generalisation but it's true.

It's so easy to disregard what is a serious issue for society by making sweeping generalisations isn't it Mike?

He nevertheless adjudges that such a sweeping generalisation is unlikely to be true.

"I wish more people understood that sweeping generalisations about 'bankers' just don't make sense.

Only fools make broad sweeping generalisations about things they clearly have no idea about.

Actually, the only points your posts seem to be making are your sweeping generalisations and ignorance.

And the more dubious must we be of sweeping generalisations made on the basis of such statistics.

These rather sweeping generalisations are now giving way to a more mature analysis of the contradictions of science and technology.

And a few absurd, sweeping generalisations, encompassing millions of people, never go amiss either.

Dianne Abbot made a sweeping generalisation about white people.

"It strikes me as dangerous to make sweeping generalisations about closing websites down based around one extreme example," he added.

Please don't make sweeping generalisations on here.

Again, the sweeping generalisation works, I think.

Regular readers will know that any sweeping generalisations I make are always backed up with evidence, and my theory of tanning is no exception.

In its original format, the report was full of sweeping generalisations and - in my view - exaggerations.

Sweeping generalisations make for bad writing.

We will replace the sweeping generalisations of 'ethical foreign policy' with a clear, practical and principled approach, persistently applied.

Conscientious, painstaking research was required, instead of philosophical speculation and unwarranted, sweeping generalisations.

We cannot make such sweeping generalisations.

Make some authoritative and grand sweeping generalisations...