The very capaciousness of the idea meant that agreement on fundamentals was unnecessary. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The capaciousness of Santa's bag astounded the child. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a capacious storage bin. From Dictionary.com.
Maxwell is not interested in narrowing down the genre's capaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950] Reference
And there's a capaciousness that makes the book richly attractive to wander into. From Wordnik.com. [Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco] Reference
Her young adult novels differ from her grownup fiction only in pacing and capaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
Perhaps Keller found her own struggle toward capaciousness of thought mirrored in Keats's metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [Keats & Helen Keller] Reference
Wolfe, whose novels have Dickensian energy and capaciousness, is less angry at than darkly amused by modern America. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference
It is here that the question of Dr. Johnson's niceness cedes to larger questions about his humanity and his spiritual capaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Powers of Dr. Johnson] Reference
The convenient location of the Old South and the capaciousness of its interior brought to it the colonial meetings which preceded the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
Its form should be spheroidal, large, giving an idea of capaciousness; the bag should have a soft, fine skin, and the hind part upward toward the tail be loose and elastic. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
I look around, dazed at the sheer capaciousness and scope of its interiors. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It has the capaciousness of the former, and somewhat of the outline of the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
"Big" is a metaphor for a certain kind of intellectual capaciousness and ampleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow] Reference
What to other men comes by culture, came to him by inborn force and natural capaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
In this way, even though short stories are shorter than novels, I like their capaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Largehearted Boy] Reference
Colquhoun shows how strangely the severity of the law was combined with its extreme capaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
Is it a trifle that we temper energy with softness, strength with flexibility, capaciousness of sound with pliancy of idiom?. From Wordnik.com. [Spare Hours] Reference
He had that largeness of motive, fulness of nature, and capaciousness of mind, which will always redeem a multitude of infirmities. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre] Reference
Fortunately I can make a record of the capaciousness of that hunger without necessarily lauding its intelligence and discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
Fervour of heart, capaciousness of intellect and imagination, present themselves on all sides: the general effect is powerful and exalting. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference
The pre-eminent outset of shower - warm moist wind coming from the Sea loch of Mexico, and - to a much lesser capaciousness - from the Atlantic Ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference
It is perhaps the best proof of Hawthornes capaciousness of mind that he could have admitted so much still life into his action without confusing it. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
It is woful to think how the vast capaciousness within St. Peter's is thrown away, and made to seem smaller than it is by every possible device, as if on purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
The author of the Plays was equipped, beyond every other man of his time, with wisdom, erudition, imagination, capaciousness of mind, grace and majesty of expression. From Wordnik.com. [Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography] Reference
They are reinforced by five female intelligence officers, whose main job is to look for suicide bombers who might hide explosives under the capaciousness of the burqa. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference
The author of the Plays was equipped, beyond every other man of his time, with wisdom, erudition, imagination, capaciousness of mind, grace, and majesty of expression. From Wordnik.com. [What Is Man? and Other Essays] Reference
Part of the genius of Catholicism is its capaciousness, its ability to take in and assimilate to itself whatever is true in other religions, spiritualities and philosophies. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Exchange] Reference
The disproportion between the intellectual capaciousness and the moral aim jars upon the sense of fitness, and the name of Bacon, "wisest, meanest," has passed into a proverb. From Wordnik.com. [Milton] Reference
Page 128 sometimes unequal in their proportions, and uncouth in their forms, these defects were more than compensated by their freedom from flaws and their general capaciousness and strength. From Wordnik.com. [The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series] Reference
The widewinged nostrils, from which bristles of the same tawny hue projected, were of such capaciousness that within their cavernous obscurity the fieldlark might easily have lodged her nest. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
The ready landlord had the cork instantly extracted, decanted the wine into a vessel of suitable capaciousness, and, declaring it parfumed the very room, left his guests to make the most of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
A vessel of uncommon strength and capaciousness was provided to convey this enormous weight of granite, at least a hundred and fifteen feet in length, from the banks of the Nile to those of the Tyber. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2] Reference
Those who wish to satisfy themselves of this should measure the capaciousness of his intellect by studying -- not by merely reading -- his Boyle Lectures on the Religions of the world; and that Kingdom of. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
There is a lot of talk already about the document's dizzying capaciousness, the way it seems to want to discuss everything and embrace almost everything, even things that seem on the surface incompatible. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
"The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the Welcome Ceremony of the World Summit on Sustainable Development] Reference
Rushdie admired Carver’s work, considering him “a great writer” and “a poet of inclusion, of capaciousness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
"At some point," he writes, "capaciousness will threaten to become shapelessness, and at that point fidelity to ... original values will demand acts of extirpation" (Fish. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Fear] Reference
I travel extensively, so the Air would be great for portability reasons, but I’m unwilling to give up the speed and capaciousness of the MacBook Pro in order to shed 2.5 pounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Passion of Steve Jobs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Ah, yes, the capaciousness of theory. From Wordnik.com. [A silly pop at theory] Reference
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