capaciousness

Example Sentences

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This is not a Pollyannaish covering-over of catastrophe but a sincere reckoning with the self and its capaciousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022

King was far more a “both/and” figure than an either/or, yet the capaciousness of his worldview did not stop him from drawing clear moral lines.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2022

The rave-reggaeton sounds of the present simply press us to look closer, reminding us of a capaciousness that has always been there.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2021

Yet that capaciousness is appropriate, because it suggests, correctly, that there is no single atheistic world view.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

The widewinged nostrils, from which bristles of the same tawny hue projected, were of such capaciousness that within their cavernous obscurity the fieldlark might easily have lodged her nest.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James