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-encompassing In A Sentence
- After all, the Divine is an all-encompassing entity.
- The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
- There are no all-encompassing answers, only local solutions, compromises, and on-going negotiations.
- The bearded Dominican priest, who's based at St Mary's in Tallaght, Dublin, believes articles should be brief, all-encompassing and understandable to a 12-year-old.
- Similarly, the holiness codes of Leviticus thread down from an all-encompassing mandate to behave distinctly from their foreign (and depraved) neighbors.
- By premising its concept of "world" (or an all-encompassing framework by some other name) on an originary act of reflexive self-possession, Cartesian epistemology and the political philosophy of classical liberalism revolve a model of agency constituted ex negativo — that is, defined by the alleged absence of any inner pre-determination. The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction
- Then again, you generally seem to be approach this type of issue via an all-encompassing and lamebrained dichotomy between wimpy, social democratic and stagnating Europe on one side and manly, free-market, rugged individualist and dynamic America on the other. Matthew Yglesias » Krugman on Europe
- Flinx surveyed theall-encompassing sea of viridity, wherein every direction looked the same as any other. Mid Flinx
- As described on line, the symptoms are as vague and all-encompassing as the advice proffered in newspaper horoscopes.
- A claustrophobic, all-encompassing atmosphere of utter darkness takes over the poem.