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  • Dubstep pioneers Horsepower have squeezed Yellowman's lyrics, if not his very mortal soul, through a metallic toothpaste tube of their own brazenly lunatic FX units and what squirts out, all hot and bothered, from the other end is a noise so all-engulfing, so consummately and entirely overpowering, it could probably reconfigure your personality on contact.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • I had no doubt that I was charging rather blindly into a deep and possibly all-engulfing morass.

    Dealings Felix Rohatyn 2010

  • Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all-engulfing passion to the fullest.

    2009 Toronto International Film Festival Opening Night and Other Films Announced | /Film 2009

  • It is thus a pretty evenly matched fight, On the one side, the all-engulfing capital, famous for disarming and eventually ingesting all manner of sworn enemies, and on the other, the newly victorious congressional Republicans, electorally empowered and pledged to cut the place down to size and to do away with much of its most cherished legislative and bureaucratic handiwork.

    After The Big One 2008

  • Being a born pessimist, I see the ignorance as rather a all-engulfing amoeba.

    Today's Battle Zoe Brain 2008

  • Recommend for clear and simple analysis of the basics of capital function and its dire need to be all-engulfing and all-overwhelming:

    HOPING TO REFORM CAPITALISM MAKES YOU COMPLICIT IN ITS INIQUITIES/4 Books 2007

  • The long gray wave of Baby Boomers retiring could lead to an all-engulfing economic crisis — unless we balance the budget, rein in senior entitlements, raise retirement ages, and boost individual and pension savings.

    The Success of Failure P. J. O'Rourke 2002

  • The long gray wave of Baby Boomers retiring could lead to an all-engulfing economic crisis — unless we balance the budget, rein in senior entitlements, raise retirement ages, and boost individual and pension savings.

    The Success of Failure P. J. O'Rourke 2002

  • Once literature is contrived as the hymn of the nation, the flag of the race, the mouthpiece of a political party or the voice of a class or a group, it can be employed as a mighty and all-engulfing tool of propaganda.

    Nobel Lecture - Literature 2000 2000

  • It was 4:30 before his column, harassed by small bodies of cavalry, reached Five Forks, a bare crossroads in the all-engulfing forest.

    LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001

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