When I recall the capaciousness of his understanding, the breadth of his experience, the range of his information, and set them side by side with the cruel limitations imposed upon him by his blindness and by his shattered constitution, I forget the severity of his discipline, I marvel only that his self-control should have served him so well in the tedious business of breaking a new man to his service. ❋ Alleyne Ireland (N/A)
For Dawkins, all the same, agnosticism's embrace of a similar unknown points not to its stringency or capaciousness, but to its "poverty." ❋ Christopher Lane (2012)
My first fine-dining experiences involved large napkins, a kind of capaciousness matched by great globes of glass for the wines and large plates or bowls for the food, whether a basic pasta in an Italian beach town or some architectural triumph in a two-star establishment outside of Paris, working on its third star. ❋ William L. Hamilton (2011)
But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language. ❋ Unknown (2012)
And there's a capaciousness that makes the book richly attractive to wander into. ❋ Joseph O'Connor (2010)
Maxwell is not interested in narrowing down the genre's capaciousness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If the New Deal came to represent a watershed in American history, it was in part due to the capaciousness of its imagination, its experimental elasticity, and its willingness to venture beyond the orthodox. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Her young adult novels differ from her grownup fiction only in pacing and capaciousness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It is here that the question of Dr. Johnson's niceness cedes to larger questions about his humanity and his spiritual capaciousness. ❋ O'Hagan, Andrew (2009)
Wolfe, whose novels have Dickensian energy and capaciousness, is less angry at than darkly amused by modern America. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I cannot help but wonder how many among us, citizens of the world, not just Americans, can exonerate themselves of the crimes of their governments knowing silence and inaction have been the most powerful weapons yet. it to its capaciousness. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Closed Circle would be easy to skewer for its mind-boggling coincidences and armchair analysis (rarely does Coe show when he can tell, tell, tell), but it redeems itself with boundless energy and a cheerful capaciousness. ❋ Unknown (2005)
