Word: encompassing
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...Professor Emeritus Brand Blanshard, that "they could sit down in their studies and arrive by reasoning at a knowledge of the ultimate nature of the world." Perhaps in no other age had philosophers greater confidence in their capacity to do this than in the 19th century. Hegel tried to encompass all aspects of life within his dialectical logic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, in 18 ponderous tomes. His idealistic principle that the material world exists only in relation to the Absolute mind led to the metaphysics of F. H. Bradley, who denied-even during the course of an hour...
Liechtenstein, the tiny, 253-year-old principality nestled between Austria and Switzerland, ranks near the bottom of the world's temporal powers. Its boundaries barely encompass 61 sq. mi. But in the art world, little Liechtenstein shines as one of the brightest stars in the firmament. Reason: within its confines is the richest old-master collection still in private hands, including a score of Rubenses and Van Dykes along with Raphaels, Brueghels, Titians and Tiepolos...
...ways that were particularly meaningful to his age. He considered himself a Christian theologian; because he was so unorthodox, some preferred to think of him as a philosopher. Beyond either, he was a loving, thinking man who managed, in the 79 years that he lived, to encompass with his mind and heart an extraordinary range of the shocks and searchings of an extraordinary period of history. When Paul Tillich died after a heart attack last week at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital, there was no doubt that his work would stand as one of the religious landmarks...
Blau admits that Happy Days, with its two characters and mound of earth, is a difficult and ambitious play, more ambitious than large productions which pretend to encompass a "great event." For Beckett and Blau wish to do nothing less than tell the truth about the human condition, as they see it, and to tell it obliquely, comically, and ironically-which is perhaps the only way it can be told. They also wish to close the gaps between the actors and the play and between the audience and the dramatic production. In the few places where they fail, the audience...
This term, the men felt, is too limited to apply to a committee on biochemistry, which will encompass many biochemical problems other than...