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Streisand’s boundlessness, her capaciousness — the lack of precedent for her whole-enchilada ambitions, the daffiness, the sexiness, the talent, orchestration, passion, originality; her persistence and indefatigability; the outfits; the hair — were a watershed.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2023

I wonder how many of them will get to revel in youth’s capaciousness like I did.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023

King was far more a “both/and” figure than an either/or, yet the capaciousness of his worldview did not stop him from drawing clear moral lines.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2022

Yet that capaciousness is appropriate, because it suggests, correctly, that there is no single atheistic world view.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018

The capaciousness of her beliefs and acceptances amazed him.

From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von