Word: engulfed
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Congratulations on TIME'S brilliant reporting of the incredible Los Angeles mess [July 15]. Perish the thought that one day the empire the ubiquitous Chandlers built will engulf us in the central coastal region that we smogless Californians call home...
...this monstrous juggernaut rolling over every sensitivity to its sure triumph . . . The most worrisome aspect of the whole Graham phenomenon, perhaps, has been the failure of nerve in men who know better, the atrophy of critical faculties. Worst of all has been the drive to smother opposition, to engulf critics, to surround criticism. In the good name of unity, Billy and his friends have pressed for a dangerously anti-Protestant uniformity and conformity...
...brooding line is repeated again and again only to appear arbitrary, in expression of similarly histrionics. Beckmann creates and maintains his impact with far greatr lucidity. "The People, Cafe" and "Society, 1915," coherently relate a tale of human confusion and shock, a state of mind which, fortunately, does not engulf the artist despite his intensity of conviction...
...nevertheless, a sense of discipline that never allows the picture to fail completely. Le Corbusier's canvases are two-dimensional. Along with Ozenfant, he was responsible for the creed of Purism promulgated about 1920 in an effort to preserve Cubism from the decorative tendency that was threatening to engulf it. The original impulse aimed at removing the literary art of Picasso and Braque to a more democratic level. Their concept was to dignify humble subject matter, objects like bottles and pipes that men everywhere knew, instead of bringing the uneducated up to the iconographic level of traditional...
...using homosexuality as a weapon against his family, which (unconsciously) he always hates. The analyst must not begin by attacking the homosexuality head on-or the patient will at once cry that he is being persecuted. Yet the analyst must convince him that his self-damaging tendencies will engulf his whole personality, if they have not already done so. There are, says Bergler, no "healthy homosexuals...