#enveloping

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race. ↗

— William Weld

#ban #ceiling #complete #enveloping #given

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#art #criticism #darkness #discernible #enveloping

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#childbirth #could #different #effects #enveloping

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#change #changes #connect #different #enveloping

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. ↗

— Richard Harris

#away #brought #cocoon #completely #custom

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#aids #appearance #better #building #clearer