"There are so many realities that in trying to encompass them all one ends in darkness," Picasso once explained.
In doing so it attempted to sum up Truman's whole life, but the poster for The Tree of Life goes a step further, trying to encompass, in the same way the film does, the entire history of the universe.
For all the richness of its gold-and-platinum-plated soundtrack, "Motown" would be a much more satisfying nostalgia trip if Mr. Gordy and his collaborators were more effective curators of both story and song, rather than trying to encompass the whole of the label's fabled history in two and a half hours.
In trying to encompass a dense story, rife with thematic richness and far-reaching implications, while interweaving conflicts involving family, friends and lovers, Ms. Whiskeyman resorts to tired narrative devices, not thoroughly bypassing the cliches of docudrama, but her play is more imperfect than unwieldy.
Just trying to encompass these different attributes of big data generates very complex models and approaches and make it hard to manage.
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 so patent applications often try to encompass every potential aspect of a new technology.
Regrettably, Feigel does not confine herself to these lives in wartime, but tries to encompass their postwar careers as well.
He has assiduously tried to encompass as much of the book as two hours of traffic on the stage allows.
John L. Palmer, a public trustee of Social Security and Medicare who is dean of Maxwell School of public policy at Syracuse University, strongly supported projections that try to encompass all future costs.
The Bauhaus tried to encompass both old and emerging technologies and bring a new approach to everything – from stained glass to advertising, theatre design to packaging, furniture to painting and sculpture.
