capaciousness

Example Sentences

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Streisand’s boundlessness, her capaciousness — the lack of precedent for her whole-enchilada ambitions, the daffiness, the sexiness, the talent, orchestration, passion, originality; her persistence and indefatigability; the outfits; the hair — were a watershed.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2023

This is not a Pollyannaish covering-over of catastrophe but a sincere reckoning with the self and its capaciousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022

Rounded and resonant, they have a capaciousness evocative of generosity, ironic fatigue and endurance.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

This bleeding together of character arcs and images gives the book a strange capaciousness.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2019

Fortunately I can make a record of the capaciousness of that hunger without necessarily lauding its intelligence and discrimination.

From 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 by Krehbiel, Henry Edward