ADJECTIVE
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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 all-embracing In A Sentence
- Indeed, before entering the first of two main spaces devoted to the exhibit, you encounter five 1968 lithographs inspired by the poet Pablo Neruda's epic work, "Canto General," an all-embracing distillation of Latin American history, geography and culture. Siqueiros in Unfamiliar Terrain
- In short, the monad was the keystone of Bruno's all-embracing uni - versal scheme. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- But as the texts declaring the passing out, and so on, of the prâna, prove it to be of limited size, the all-embracingness ascribed to prâna in those other texts must be interpreted to mean only that the life of all living and breathing creatures depends on breath. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
- For this, we need something absolutely necessary that consequently has all-embracing reality. Matthew Yglesias » Time to Play This Video Again I Guess
- It was syllogistic, precise, assured and all-embracing; divergence from it was heavily deprecated. The Times Literary Supplement
- And not even the all-embracing, everlasting, multitudinous seas could absolve this. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
- Mysteries have been replaced with conspiracies, complex, all-embracing structures that nicely dovetail with the internet's global reach.
- The categories are neither intended to be mutually exclusive nor all-embracing.
- It represents a radical and all-embracing transfer of allegiance.
- In fact, after 1890, the era of all-embracing philosophical systems seemed to pass.
