Word: engulf
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...concerts. “When you’re playing to a big crowd and it’s something that’s really slow, it can have a really good effect,” Valle says. “But at the same time you want to engulf everybody and grab their attention. Having a big sound is very effective...
...Cambridge Fire Department (CFD) arrived at the popular student night hangout at 10:36 p.m. and were able to extinguish the fire before flames could engulf the building...
...series of Holiday magazine articles that became the book "Westward, Ha!" Perelman, in a paean to his pal, described Hirschfeld as "a pair of liquid brown eyes, delicately rimmed in red, of an innocence to charm the heart of the fiercest aborigine, and a beard which could engulf everything from a tsetse fly to a Sumatra tiger. In short, a remarkable combination of Walt Whitman, Lawrence of Arabia, and Moe, my favorite waiter at Lindy...
...film's climax, the Draft Riots engulf the city as Bill and Amsterdam line up for their final face-off--a Celtic clan skirmish that has little to do with the larger atrocities. The point may be that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of corpses when anarchy breaks loose. This daring, perhaps confusing declaration of irrelevance suggests that the epic is a form a director like Scorsese must subvert even as he invokes it. But it doesn't erase the sordid splendor of Scorsese's congested, conflicted, entrancing achievement. --By Richard Corliss...
...early stages of Alzheimer's, the eyes have a wariness, a veil of fear. It's as if the person is standing at the edge of a fogbank, knowing that in time it will engulf him and there is no chance of outrunning it. I used to see my father's eyes simultaneously plead and hold firm. It would happen when a sentence broke off because he couldn't remember how to finish it. Or when he would say, "I have this condition--I keep forgetting things." He was on a high wire, balancing on courage, with the dark waters...