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Quotes About Encompassed

There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
~ Douglas Sirk
Eric & Julie Wrapped Around You
~ Evelyn Adams
An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.
~ Joë Bousquet
And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed. But this made the empty place within him no easier to bear.
~ Frank Herbert
The huge Bernard is encompassed within a tiny hundred-cell cluster.
~ Greg Bear
I love that he's both comic and tragic, and highly poetic but also just dirty at times. ... I love that within the world of Shakespeare's plays, the whole world is sort of encompassed in a certain way.
~ Lauren Groff
To read Shakespeare is to feel encompassed -- the plays contain practically every word I know, practically every character type I have ever met, and practically every idea I have ever had.
~ Kenji Yoshino
encompassed
~ Victor Hugo
The "field" encompassed in the "science of the Imagination" is so vast that it is difficult to enumerate all its sectors.
~ Henry Corbin