Yet a truly capacious, well-appointed mall, accepted on its own merits, has infinitely more to offer thrill seekers than those picayune hamlets that dot the landscape, with their solitary diner, dowdy bookstore, canny antiques dealers and dodgy museum.
Capacious, well appointed and unusually situated, it is designed to help propel the 55-year-old Alley to the top rank of American regional theaters.
At the Banana Republic in SoHo, the pleasure of capacious, well appointed dressing rooms is offset somewhat by self-locking doors that overplay corporate paranoia about theft.
But there is something in the authoritative way he paces the capacious, well-trod building that says his outsider status, even before the deal, was in name only.
At the time, political pundit Elizabeth Drew wrote, "Even when he was wrong, Nixon still showed that he knew a great deal and had a capacious memory, as well as the capacity to speak with apparent authority, enough to impress people who had little regard for him in earlier times".
To the extent that thinking about politics was necessarily uncertain, the proper conduct of affairs depended upon an honest as well as a capacious mind, and on a well-disposed management of words.
Installed in a capacious red brick building on Fifth Street, the bustling gallery handles well-known California artists like Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston and Kenneth Price, and also shows artists represented by New York dealers, like Frank Stella, Anthony Caro and Vito Acconci.
Little Lake Park, in Santa Fe Springs, a light-industrial suburb half an hour east of Santa Monica, is a pleasant facility: twenty acres of well-manicured ballfields, edged by tall palms and a capacious grove of shade trees, which shelters a tidy cinder-block cube that serves as a V.F.W. post.
It is a capacious category, one that encompasses the small-town florist supplying bridal bouquets and buttonholes as well as department stores that compete for bridal registry business.
"Art" is a capacious term.
This was a capacious category.
