It's not so much a truly original story with regards to the subject matter, but the global encompassment, coupled with the avoidance of being violently gratuitous make for a one-of-a-kind book. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The woman's vagina is penetrable and engulfing, her menstrual blood is a primary abject pollutant, while her capacity to give birth raises the subject's terror of encompassment and subsequent loss of self. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She hesitated, moved her hips so that her body curved behind me, thighs warm and round against mine, offering encompassment and refuge. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)
He is, Himself, that outer, He the encompassment and measure of all things; or rather He is within, at the innermost depth; the outer, circling round Him, so to speak, and wholly dependent upon Him, is Reason-Principle and Intellectual-Principle-or becomes Intellectual-Principle by contact with Him and in the degree of that contact and dependence; for from Him it takes the being which makes it ❋ Plotinus (1952)
But now, as under the spell of a new encompassment of her own weaving, she seemed to revert to her former self, sinking, relaxed, into a wicker lounge beside the basin, one long and shapely hand in the water, the other idle in her lap. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
Money, indeed, if certain ill-natured gossip of tradesmen be true, has been an inconsiderable factor in the encompassment of this sartorial distinction. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy -- a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason. ❋ Unknown (1891)
But its encompassment by the sea, its peninsularity, is the dominating difference between the Seward Peninsula and the interior, and does indeed make a different country of it altogether. ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)
But nobody has blown away from the matter its brumous encompassment and let in the light upon it It is very simple. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)
The sequence is an ever-widening sense of a sweet and celestial encompassment. ❋ George Spring Merriam (1878)
Think what it must be for a man to leave the warm encompassment of the cheerful day and pass composedly to a gloom which is relieved only by the inner light that shines from the soul! ❋ James Runciman (1871)
In addition to our own souls, the contention and encompassment of society can be another contributing factor in committing sins.
It doesn't magically make me need another USB stick: I have enough already in my desk drawer to plug into a NAS and thus making it capable of the encompassment the sum of all human knowledge in the totality of space/time. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They chose the llama species because it seemed to most duplicate the aliens’ viewpoint of things—their detachment and spiritual encompassment of the physical world—without getting enmeshed into form. ❋ Penelope Smith (2009)
(encompassment), and draws in all concerned parties (multilateralism).
[The sorrow] of living in [this place] had encompassed the first [13] years of my life. ❋ Hanasakurou (2015)
