totalize

Example Sentences

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His latest, which attests to his status as one of the most intellectually game writers of our time, is a totalized counterfiction of post-1492 world history.

From New York Times

Both, he says, are totalizing ideologies: There is nothing “natural” about individual rights, “no such thing as a rights-bearing individual,” Legutko told me.

From New York Times

“I think that smell opens up an incredible, totalizing potential for art,” Yi said.

From New York Times

That totalizing narrative encompasses the inherent violence in relations between men and women, Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews and Europeans, especially the Spanish on this very spot.

From Washington Post

Capitalism constrains that self in a manner so totalizing that it prevents Momo from seeing her own ownership; in at least one narrative, she’s the property of a corporation that controls her.

From Los Angeles Times