Which is surely a critic's way of saying that a good novel is the kind that knocks your entire world-view off its axis, that wholly encompasses you and leaves you feeling bereft at the final page.
Conclude your letter with a hope, a wish, a blessing that encompasses you and the person with whom you are sharing these most sacred words.
While you might not get the street experience with all the motorbike fumes, horns, shouting, humidity and food hygiene paranoia that encompasses, you will get very, very good Vietnamese food.
Given that US mild enthusiasts emphasise the broad range of flavours this style can encompass, you can bet their brews will bear little resemblance to our own historic, shy milds.
Rather than stick out your arm, and look like a goofball trying to encompass you standing in front of the majesty that is the Grand Canyon, or try to find some suitably flat surface on which to rest your camera, or God forbid ask a stranger to take your photo, you can attach your camera to your QuikPod, extend the arm, and take a photo.
And to look at just how broad Evernote's approach to the so-called wearables market is, and what that might encompass, you can look to the company's launch of its Market for physical goods last year, which at the time left many observers scratching their heads.
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.
It is like studying astronomy: you start with this world which encompasses everything you know; and then you move on to the planets, the awesome sun, the stars that dwarf the sun, the overwhelming constellations made of their own stars and planets, and on and on.
The problem with social work is that, for most social work students, it is a calling; a profession that encompasses everything you think, feel and believe.
The Y710 is the big boy of the bunch and encompasses everything you'd want from a media notebook.
Freestyle skiing encompasses disciplines you will see at the Olympics such as aerials, moguls, ski cross and slopestyle.
