Sentence examples for couldn't encompass from inspiring English sources

Page D2 Arts A SOUND AND AN AMBITION TOO VAST TO CONTAIN The 10th anniversary concert of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space couldn't encompass all the ambitions of this remarkable New York institution, Jon Pareles writes.

The 10th anniversary concert of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra couldn't encompass all the ambitions of this remarkable New York institution, even in two generous sets on Friday night that kicked off the group's two-night appearance at Symphony Space.

One photographic frame could not encompass time or tell his kind of story.

And more: with teaching him to respect the medium, assuring him that there was nothing in literature, not even Shakespeare, that a film could not encompass.

The puritan streak in him, which has some width, had been touched; his conception of the truly devout could not encompass anyone as du monde as the young man I'd described.

And even if Williams's expressive baritone could not encompass the extremities of the songs' range with his usual authority, every word was articulated so that they carried the palpable pain of the youth who is betrayed in love.

"[T]he timelines for the relief ordered by the Court could not encompass such a scenario given the complexities involved in locating individuals who have been removed, determining whether they wish to be reunified with their child, and facilitating such a reunification outside of the United States," the filing reads.

Related to this, a further limitation is that the 'hope against hope' story presented in the results did not and could not encompass all of the different expressions of the participants' journey and their hopes and challenges.

At time points where the field of view could not encompass both wound edges lining the denuded area (0 h and 24 h), images were taken to include one wound edge and the denuded area ensuring similar coverage of scratch for all trans-wells.

The second cliché was that I couldn't quite encompass it.

Yet there's often a tendency to act as if the constructivists were themselves "western" in the cold war sense – that they were typical creative types who couldn't be encompassed into the "system".