totalize

Example Sentences

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It is a totalizing system that represses human agency and offers no escape: We are “like butterflies, pinned live and wriggling onto history’s collage.”

From New York Times

In an Aug. 25 entry titled “Gun Rights,” the poster wrote: “You no longer have rights. Your basic human rights hinder Big Brothers ability to enslave and control you in a complete and totalizing way.”

From Seattle Times

If Operation Cyclone triggered one civilization-level collapse in Afghanistan, the current sanctions imposed by our government will provide a less explosive, more pervasive, totalizing ruin.

From Salon

Which brings us to the final law: All of a supervillain's hired goons are considered to have the same totalizing physical and ideological dedication to their career, and as such:

From Salon

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