totalizing

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But another writer comes to mind as well—the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, whose 1958 “The Leopard” offers a layered totalizing portrait of a society that is both changing and failing to change.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

I couldn’t help but read this latest Jansen novel through the lens of critic Parul Seghal’s recent piece in the New Yorker arguing against the totalizing quality of the “trauma plot” in contemporary fiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Only with Ellie, Arezu avers, could she “acknowledge my yearning for Omar openly without being confronted with a totalizing narrative of the unequal power dynamic that had existed between us.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

His whole life was in this community, and that seemed like a totalizing expression of all the ideas that Adam and Rebekah and Miguel were putting forward.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2021

This power of totalizing, rather than any transcendent relation of elements, constitutes at least the practical unity of the soul, and this unimpeded association of its elements is true or inner freedom of will.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley