Sentence examples for encompassed him from inspiring English sources
"Where Merchant excelled over his accomplice was by avoiding the sneering narcissism that has crept into Gervais's manner since success has encompassed him," Paul Rowland wrote in a review in The Western Mail this fall.
As Richard Ingrams says, even that handy phrase "a man of contradictions" doesn't encompass him.
They cannot meet as emotional equals except when she stoops to encompass him, and when she explains that time flows across the mirror and between them, her pathos stuns him.
Tommy retreats inward again ("See Me, Feel Me") with his "continuing statement of wonder at that which encompasses him".
Another was Murray Kempton, who observed that "the pure and the cheap, clown and creator, god and buffoon" were all encompassed in him.
We all know about the exemplary record the music industry has in looking after the best interests of those it choses to make stars while they are still children – and I bet the courting of Justin Bieber did not encompass offering him case studies of those who have been taken up, burned out and discarded.
The Austro-Hungarian empire encompassed them both.
Whatever else can be thrown at Blair and, in the past ten years, the accusations against him have encompassed everything from engaging in war crimes when he decided Britain should participate in the invasion of Iraq to selling his consulting services to despots and dictators after he left office he can't be charged with timidity.
They help him encompass a prodigious range of commissions.
The case against him, encompassing more than 100 counts, is essentially that he received unauthorized millions from Enron.
