omnivorousness

The Morgan makes a virtue of his multimedia omnivorousness, especially in the masterpiece at this show’s heart: “The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France,” an unconstrained and nearly unpunctuated travelogue in verse from 1913, self-published on a 6.5-foot-tall accordion-fold booklet, framed by the parti-colored abstract bursts of the great French-Ukrainian artist Sonia Delaunay-Terk.

American cultural omnivorousness, which is pronounced in the realms of cuisine and music, remains hostage to a decidedly provincial rider: For something of foreign provenance to gain traction, it must undergo Americanization.

But praise for her omnivorousness has often read instead as exasperation with the assumed boundaries of the genre she’s perceived as distancing herself from.

His omnivorousness, which was central to how he presented himself on camera, became an albatross.

Winfrey, incidentally, is not the only one in this story to pursue a kind of media omnivorousness: As they were helping ViacomCBS generate advertising revenue, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, herself a former actress with a sharp understanding of the media world, also continue to boast of roles producing a variety of programming via Netflix and Spotify deals.