The Alchemy of Desire is an ambitious novel: it not only attempts to encompass much of contemporary India, it also forays into colonial territory (Jim Corbett, hill stations, white goddesses, brown lovers).
Perhaps it was only meant to encompass the first three months of the year and will be addressed in the next letter.] but someone was kind enough to send us the stat sheet for May.
The only job definition to encompass all the talents of Barry Took, who has died of cancer aged 73, is one from which he would have flinched as sounding much too pompous and fuddy-duddy - "humorist".
The Italian portolans tend to encompass only western Europe and the Mediterranean basin, but some Catalan charts can be considered world maps.
While the abstract is an appropriate summary of the study, the title is very broad and could perhaps be more restricted to encompass only the data in the manuscript, which is solely derived from one cancer cell line, B16F10 cells.
For a time, the founding myth seemed to encompass only Williams and Stone, with Dorsey the forgotten Beatle.
"He is maybe the only violinist today able to encompass every style of playing," Mr. Rattle said.
This plan is another candidate for elimination, or perhaps it should be limited to encompass only very widely prescribed drugs whose clinical trials raised a safety signal(s).
Re "Who's Afraid of Sarah Schulman?" by Jesse Green [October 23]: In her letter [Nov. 13], Linda S. Chapman's concern with accurate theater history seems to encompass only her personal connections in that world, while streamlining others out of existence.
PET has been proven to be the only imaging technique able to encompass all the information yielded by conventional morphological techniques (lymphangiography, computed tomography, ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging).
