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

At the same time, when thinking about this concept of the end of the world, it’s not a totalizing event, it’s more of a spectrum of things that people experience.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2023

“Stephanie has become part of a tradition of artists and cultural workers that poke holes in these overarching and totalizing theories about how things work,” Beckwith said.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2023

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

The need of totalizing, of simplifying, will bring about the general use of such graphic methods as permit of series and comparisons.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.