ADJECTIVE
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including everything visible in one view
a panoptic aerial photograph of the missile base
a panoptic stain used in microscopy -
broad in scope or content
an invention with broad applications
granted him wide powers
an all-embracing definition
a panoptic study of Soviet nationality
blanket sanctions against human-rights violators
across-the-board pay increases
How To Use panoptic In A Sentence
- This conjures up the ominous spectre of the internet transforming the 'analogue' school into a digital panopticon. Times, Sunday Times
- Opened in 1925, the old Stateville is famous for having a Panopticon, a type of "roundhouse" prison designed by British philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Charles Shaw: Inside the Illinois Prison Known as "Hotel Hell"
- Modern prisons are modelled after John Stuart Mill's panopticon, and sentries can indeed see everything.
- Foucault's panopticon kept popping into my head, with the concentric circles of observation used for prisons and experiments.
- But bullshit's natural habitat is also under stress with the panoptical of YouTube and I-phones and their techno-kin reality TV is bullshit's "artistic" cognate. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: The Bullshit Paradox
- The panopticon was never built, but the idea lives on. Times, Sunday Times
- Unanimous, resistible and oh so deftly clustered, nonsyllabic is creaseless for the sapir or for panoptical into your mothproof hygrodeik. Rational Review
- That is, just as a pineapple has eyes that face in all directions, Angka has panoptic vision.
- Encyclopedic and panoptical in his enumerations, Bhaskar deserves a closer look, paradigmatically as well as personally. Archive 2006-12-01
- Panoptic modernity was always a global system that affected different parts of the world unevenly.
