The Radio Corporation of America had grown to subsume everything from hire car companies (Hertz) to publishing houses (Random House).
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.
The slow movement sounded like a great animal wounded or beached, out of its element, with alarming discords and sudden changes of texture left fully exposed, no attempt made to subsume everything into an evenly pulsed flow.
Aitkenhead saw this as sentimental, but in grim retrospect it points to someone who struggled against his fear of his own sorrow, someone who was afraid, perhaps, because he understood the potential that unhappiness had to subsume everything else about him.
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.
Confronted with these kinds of difficulties in subsuming everything that is pre-theoretically of value under one master value, pluralists don't fret: they simply add to their list of basic intrinsic values, and hence can be more confident in preserving the pre-theoretical phenomena.
Establishment of the set point of the system effectively denies a role for socioeconomic and environmental factors in the aetiology of obesity, subsuming everything into the physiology, which seems unlikely (Symonds et al., 2011).
He felt that the three main plot strands were poorly balanced, resulting in an episode with "powerful moments that drown as they're nearly subsumed by everything else going on".
