How To Use Expansiveness In A Sentence
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That expansiveness which is the essence of the poetic element, they have not.
XIV. English Traits. Literature
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My nightly assignment, as the inhabitor of rental property, is to surf wildly the web and hunt for our new abode, the one set off in the nakedness of woods and the expansiveness of country.
Outfoxed Diary Entry
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This expansiveness raised problems of rhetoric and tone.
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the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed
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The early systems had too specialty and the maintenance and expansiveness were not satisfying.
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Not only was our regular route structure an adventurer's dream, but Pan Am was often called upon to participate in countless evacuations and missions of mercy, which added to our sense of excitement and expansiveness.
Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: "The Pool"
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Perhaps it's easier to adopt a problematic alternative than to live with less light, for with our abundant illumination - as with our easeful travel - we measure the expansiveness of our lives.
Jane Brox: Light! Less Light! The Evolution Of Artificial Light
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Their detailed landscape paintings showed the huge expansiveness of American wilderness.
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The reductionists argued for the simplicity of tragedy; their rivals argued for the magnificent expansiveness of epic.
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But as our telling swells to include many stories, we are made that much greater by the expansiveness of our humanity -- warts, joys and all.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Expanding Circles Of Thanks
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The "expansiveness" will only be temporary, and last as long as it takes for the impulse to return and fill up the space again.
One Cosmos
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Breathing in and out for an equal length of time is another way to experience expansiveness and balance.
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What really captivated me about this book is what I can only call its expansiveness, its sense of literary grace and play in the telling of history.
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We know also that this last state is characterized by a high degree of expansiveness, which is also the outstanding property of heat.
Man or Matter
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American expansiveness now looks bloated and fatigued to anyone not planning a fly-drive holiday to Florida.
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At the same time, I looked around to find who is rested most deeply and stably and relaxedly in expansiveness.
Arjuna Ardagh: Healing the Spirit/Matter Split
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The Guggenheim, which more than any other art museum epitomized the heady expansiveness of the 1990s economy, has suffered more than most.
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When we entered the cemetery, I was immediately struck by the sense of peace and expansiveness that pervaded the place.
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Gibbons draws a viable enough distinction between the intricate formalism of Perec's fiction and the "expansiveness" of Pynchon, Wallace, and Vollmann (whose work might be more accurately characterized by what Tom LeClair has called the "art of excess"), but I wonder about the utility of of attributing these differences to national or geographical qualities -- "commensurate with the open spaces and endless distances of our continent.
Art and Culture
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Sensitive to atmosphere, Jolyon soon felt the latent antagonism between the boys, and was puzzled by Holly; so he became unconsciously ironical, which is fatal to the expansiveness of youth.
In Chancery
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This shadow transmutes into wisdom by letting go of your self-importance and experiencing the enriching depth, expansiveness, and abundance of all life with equanimity.
C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
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No sooner had a bowl of steaming spaghetti vongole been placed in front of me than Matt, in a moment of open-armed expansiveness while trying to press home a point, had knocked the entire thing into my lap.
