Capacious

Bellow's letters take the reader through a long and replete – "capacious" is his wife's word for it – life. ❋ Rachel Cooke (2010)

a place was the Grotto, where Brissenden and he lounged in capacious leather chairs and drank Scotch and soda. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While I wouldn't necessarily argue that Uris or Wouk have the same richness of language or psychological depth as, say, John Updike or Ian McEwan, they do offer a kind of capacious private world for the reader to move around in, a lush mental landscape that can only be found in books. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Calling it "capacious" and "quite spectacular," she praised the club's managers for their enforcement of drinking laws. ❋ By LISA W. FODERARO (2010)

Ark "-- by which complimentary title the capacious boat devoted to the use of the juniors of the house was known -- lazily up on the tide towards ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

His wife, Lizzie, folded me to her capacious breast. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The narrator is himself an unengaging figure whose status as a blank slate on which his friend Perkus inscribes a more capacious understanding does not make him a character with whom one wants to spend over 450 pages. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Both nations lack a booster capable of lofting Spacecraft more capacious than the venerable Soyuz. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Carrying lip gloss, keys, sunglasses, shopping lists and candy bars, all the trivia of the handbag, in its capacious elegance. ❋ Alice Walker Blog Administrator (2009)

They scanned a universe of knowledge into its capacious 15 trillion-byte memory: great literature, mathematical and scientific formulas, the name of every pope and Best Actress Oscar winner. ❋ Alexandra Petri (2011)

He recently moved this prerevolutionary staple of Cairo intellectual life to the more capacious Opera House. ❋ Matthew Kaminski (2011)

It was a groove that bridged the Atlantic with uneventfulness, so that the ship was not a ship in the midst of the sea, but a capacious, many-corridored hotel that moved swiftly and placidly, crushing the waves into submission with its colossal bulk until the sea was a mill-pond, monotonous with quietude. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dar Hyal and Hancock likewise abandoned the discussion, each isolating himself in a capacious chair. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eric Wesley's "Improbability of Intentionally Creating Shock, Part II" (2011) is a big, double "exaggerated rubber band" (as the gallery describes it), attached on one end to the far wall of the capacious front gallery and on the other to a chrome-and-steel square "wheel." ❋ Peter Plagens (2012)

Bottega Veneta's Scarabee convertible bag in light iridescent leather £ 2,450: Amazingly light, stylish and capacious, you could pack a baby elephant in here — well, OK, maybe a couple of kittens and a hair dryer. ❋ Tina Gaudoin (2011)

Twenty-four of the frozen eggs went rattling in his capacious pockets and he didn't care whether the rest of the town ate or not. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the steerage itself, which possessed a far larger living-space than the cabin, were six capacious bunks, each double the width of the forecastle bunks, and each curtained and with no bunk above it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Maaaan], don't [get with] her, [that chick] is capacious! ❋ GangstaPhil (2012)

Feeling rather inadequate after shagging [Belinda] and sharing my disappointment to my friend Albert, he said [belinda] is known for having a "Capacious COCK Wallet" [old bean]! rather like fisting an elephants grandma! ❋ Johny Alpha (2011)