copiousness

These characters are emotionally confused by the complexity and copiousness of the world around them.

The oddity and copiousness of the story is a seductive wonder itself.

It is the only way to give a language copiousness and euphony."

But he alarms me by his copiousness and haste.

Thomas Jefferson thought he had "neither copiousness of ideas nor fluency of words."

The ascendancy of man had only momentarily affected the copiousness of this stream.

But to marvel at copiousness would be to misconceive achievement: all that arithmetic is, however impressive, beside the point.

By his choice of a vehicle he has avoided the fatal facility and copiousness which have led many Spanish poets to destruction.

Then, copiousness and bossiness were in fashion, and diners came to be told what they would eat and how much.

The copiousness, too, is eloquent.

He then frequented places of publick resort, and endeavoured to attract notice by the copiousness of his talk.

Here "grammar" seems bombastic, merely swelling the prose, unnecessarily emphasizing the copiousness that is in any case everywhere, and often admirably, in evidence.

Still, the copiousness of the display may have more to do with its objective, which is evidently to portray the triumph of acquired characteristics over inherited ones.

But Val Gardena remains a long way from Tuscany, and copiousness is at least as important here as refinement.

According to Longinus, Demosthenes "perfected to the utmost the tone of lofty speech, living passions, copiousness, readiness, speed".

It was essential that Tabari say something, and in trying to decide which way to jump he began to sweat with a copiousness not justified by the steam.

The conspicuous case is Shostakovich, a composer of enormous gifts and awesome copiousness, the only one to satisfy, if intermittently, both his masters and the West.

We have the same impression of the writers whom James admired, especially of Balzac, that the so evident copiousness is merely a sampling of what was there.

Cicero, who was a diligent reader of Timaeus, expresses a far more favourable opinion, specially commending his copiousness of matter and variety of expression.

While in Tripoli he continued to indulge his scientific and philosophical curiosity by making copiousness notes about the quality of the soil, the atmosphere, and also about local customs.

That would explain why John Poindexter, a naval order-follower known for the copiousness of his notes, approved Ollie North's illicit operations long before written findings were prepared.

Tschupick's sermons were remarkable for clearness and logical thought, strength and precision of expression, copiousness and skillful application of Patristic and Biblical texts.

His manner as a speaker was somewhat coarse, but it was impressive; he had great copiousness and fluency of delivery, and his powers of reasoning were of the highest order.

Saul Bellow or Philip Roth, Jewish Americans, exhibit (as did Edward Dahlberg) a rhetoric of copiousness, even unto multiple volumes of semicomic ululation.

But if Mr. Goldhagen has not pre-empted all possible doubts over his conclusions, the copiousness of his evidence and the elegance of his logic sweep away the large mass of them.