many-sidedness
Example Sentences
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Though the originality of “Esplanade” — the skipping and sliding set to Bach — is much more easily imitated than that of “Sunset,” its many-sidedness is still nearly inexhaustible.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2014
He has been influential on all of those instruments, but his chief legacy to younger jazz musicians might actually be his many-sidedness, the impulse that sometimes gets tagged as eclecticism.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2011
This many-sidedness, as they now call it, which the Greeks called πολυπραγμοσύνη and thought to be meddlesomeness, was not likely to infect Pericles.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
Intellectually, he represented its many-sidedness attained through penetration of thought, and a keenness of observation, profiting from experience, extended into every sphere.
From Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo da Vinci
The many-sidedness of the dramatist, let it be well believed and pondered, is but the versatility in form of a certain personal and substantial being, which constitutes the specific mind of the dramatist himself.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson
