capaciousness

When I recall the capaciousness of his understanding, the breadth of his experience, the range of his information, and set them side by side with the cruel limitations imposed upon him by his blindness and by his shattered constitution, I forget the severity of his discipline, I marvel only that his self-control should have served him so well in the tedious business of breaking a new man to his service.

An Adventure with a Genius Alleyne Ireland

When I recall the capaciousness of his understanding, the breadth of his experience, the range of his information, and set them side by side with the cruel limitations imposed upon him by his blindness and by his shattered constitution, I forget the severity of his discipline, I marvel only that his self-control should have served him so well in the tedious business of breaking a new man to his service.

An Adventure With A Genius Ireland, Alleyne, 1871-1951. 1n 1920

For Dawkins, all the same, agnosticism's embrace of a similar unknown points not to its stringency or capaciousness, but to its "poverty."

Christopher Lane: Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins Christopher Lane 2012

My first fine-dining experiences involved large napkins, a kind of capaciousness matched by great globes of glass for the wines and large plates or bowls for the food, whether a basic pasta in an Italian beach town or some architectural triumph in a two-star establishment outside of Paris, working on its third star.

The Great Shrink William L. Hamilton 2011

For Dawkins, all the same, agnosticism's embrace of a similar unknown points not to its stringency or capaciousness, but to its "poverty."

Christopher Lane: Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins Christopher Lane 2012

But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.

In praise of … Kate Bush | Editorial 2012

For Dawkins, all the same, agnosticism's embrace of a similar unknown points not to its stringency or capaciousness, but to its "poverty."

Christopher Lane: Two Ways Of Thinking About Agnosticism: Hitchens vs. Dawkins Christopher Lane 2012

And there's a capaciousness that makes the book richly attractive to wander into.

Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco Joseph O'Connor 2010

Maxwell is not interested in narrowing down the genre's capaciousness.

The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 2010

Maxwell is not interested in narrowing down the genre's capaciousness.

The Little Professor: 2010