entireness

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It was in these terms that Bonheur described herself in the interview: “Art is an absorbent — a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body, the entireness of his votary,” she said.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2022

There have been many acute essays upon his minor characteristics; but intellectual criticism has never grappled with Shaksperian ART in its entireness and grandeur, and probably it never will.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

It is finely placed, and all the parts are admirable: but I think it wants completeness and entireness of effect, and does not tell its story well.

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

The safety of the State does not depend on the safety of the clergy, but on the entireness of the sovereign power.”—Considerations upon the Reputation, &c., of Mr. Hobbes, p.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

No dressmaker had ever played fantastic tricks with it: it was pure and simple in its entireness as it came from the loom.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various