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copiousness



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“She has no academic credentials, only her obsession — which is less with the actual woman, one feels, than with the poem’s copiousness, its mingling of grief, desire, revenge.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2021

We’re invited only to marvel at the copiousness of the term; Garber abstains from exploring how differently each party privately defines “character,” and why.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020

The Brooklyn-born, Brussels-based artist, 71, has compared the copiousness of his work to an “everything” bagel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2018

And that, too, feels like an important part of Clifton—her copiousness, her generosity—but more people, I suspect, will manage to find her in that shorter book.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2012

Standing or walking, he talked to himself; his heart constantly overflowed; with a copiousness of splendid words, he uttered to himself the loftiest emotions.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




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