Sentence examples for and subsumes from inspiring English sources

This is a characteristically patriarchal gesture: Mathilde seems to ask for little, and subsumes whatever desire for a career she may have had to his larger claims.

Equally important is what it achieves dramatically: it is the first Wagner opera in which psychological truth obliterates and subsumes the mythical.

Over years and decades, we watch the project metastatise until, still unfinished, it outgrows and subsumes its creator and all he knows.

The popular notion of infinity may be of a monolithic totality, the ultimate, unbounded big tent that goes on forever and subsumes everything in its path — time, the cosmos, your complete collection of old Playbills.

Related | In "The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities," Natalie Angier writes: The popular notion of infinity may be of a monolithic totality, the ultimate, unbounded big tent that goes on forever and subsumes everything in its path — time, the cosmos, your complete collection of old Playbills.

Capitalism is basically the Borg; it infects and subsumes everything it touches.

They thwart my project and subsume me into theirs.

Modern Chinese history offers several examples of this "remove and subsume" strategy.

After the Communists came to power, the arts were repurposed as a political tool and subsumed into the Department of Propaganda.

In 2007, under New Labour, it was abolished, and subsumed within the Equality and Human Rights Commission, with much-depleted funds.

It was not a "katamari" of palettes and berets trundling over and subsuming all M.F.A.-holders in its path.