Catholicity
Example Sentences
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Not every designer cites, with Mr. Dhir’s catholicity of taste, inspirations as disparate as Clark Gable’s swallowtail coats from “Gone With the Wind” and Paul Hogan’s groovy buccaneer drag from “Crocodile Dundee.”
From New York Times
When some people rave about “Hamilton” as a “hip-hop musical,” they’re applauding the expansion of their taste — of their artistic tolerance — and obscuring Miranda’s voracious catholicity.
From New York Times
But while that genre catholicity has always been part of Mr. Brooks’s arsenal, he’s too savvy to ignore the country base.
From New York Times
When, aged 16, I went to see Bob Dylan play, I considered myself to be demonstrating a considerable catholicity of taste in embracing the work of such a has-been.
From BBC
It would be hard to top the catholicity of discovery provided by this eclectic collection of scientists.
From Scientific American
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.