Word: encompass
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...tables of organization do not show, the rented cable cannot encompass, the reality of television, which is an ever-fluctuating relationship between three powers: network officialdom, sponsors and their advertising agencies, and the program packagers...
...were not enough for the real Eisenhower charm to encompass the Western Hemisphere, now Artist Wyeth has dipped his brush in molten gold and created a veritable...
...bearable? The little girl is surrounded by servants who know more than their place; they know their background of overriding superstition in which native magic is more powerful than any white man's god. They obey their masters and know their masters' weaknesses. Their own lives encompass an area to which the white folks have no pass, and it is one of Author Dermout's virtues that she can suggest this life without dragging the reader through kitchens and bedrooms. There is a story of sorts. The small girl, with the awareness of the very young, sees...
...marched triumphantly into this city today after defeating the forces of Fidel Castro '47 throughout the whole of Cuba. "Man, it's not like I had anything against this Fidel cat, but man, this Cuba is an ugly country and I want to clean it up, sweep the streets, encompass the universe, ravish the earth." Scott broke the back of the Castro resistance at famous San Juan Hill...
...major difficulty of the play is that it tries to encompass too much; it includes too many themes. It attempts to explore the spirit of the Twenties, the antagonisms between the Twenties and the Thirties, the decline of a human being, the conflict between the creative writer and the movie Mammon, and the love and failure in love of a man and a woman. Some of this material, such as the conflict between the Twenties and Thirties, does not seem especially important a quarter of a century later...