Word: encompassing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World Cup in 1970. Brazil's opponent was Italy, which played its tough defense coupled with sudden thrusts to tie the game 1-1, demoralizing the Brazilians. Italy could very easily have massed its defense even more, until its frantic opponent began making the mistakes that would encompass its ruin. But, led by Pele, Brazil paid no attention. Attacking as if the Italians were a practice team, the Brazilians ran them into the ground...
...president considers "academic andintellectual" to encompass more than just histasks related to the University. He readsconstantly, keeping up with the new developmentsin every field from neuroscience to politicaltheory and engaging professors in livelydiscussions about their work. "[You're not doingyour job], if you don't know what the devil'sgoing on academically," Rudenstine says...
...reason for the Houses, upperclass students and first-year proctors to clarify the purpose of blocking groups to first-years before these misinterpretations gel. Blocking should be addressed far before first-year housing forms are due in March so as to explain that a blocking group should never encompass one's entire social circle but rather provide students with a core of companions with which to experience and identify with their specific house...
Bhatt said last year the week's themes weremore general in scope, trying to encompass adiversity of women's issues...
Freud was intent not merely on originating a sweeping theory of mental functioning and malfunctioning. He also wanted to develop the rules of psychoanalytic therapy and expand his picture of human nature to encompass not just the couch but the whole culture. As to the first, he created the largely silent listener who encourages the analysand to say whatever comes to mind, no matter how foolish, repetitive or outrageous, and who intervenes occasionally to interpret what the patient on the couch is struggling to say. While some adventurous early psychoanalysts thought they could quantify just what proportion of their analysands...