totalizing
- present participle of totalize.
Example Sentences
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But another writer comes to mind as well—the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, whose 1958 “The Leopard” offers a layered totalizing portrait of a society that is both changing and failing to change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
At the same time, when thinking about this concept of the end of the world, it’s not a totalizing event, it’s more of a spectrum of things that people experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
Which brings us to the final law: All of a supervillain's hired goons are considered to have the same totalizing physical and ideological dedication to their career, and as such:
From Salon ● May 14, 2022
Only with Ellie, Arezu avers, could she “acknowledge my yearning for Omar openly without being confronted with a totalizing narrative of the unequal power dynamic that had existed between us.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021
This power of totalizing, rather than any transcendent relation of elements, constitutes at least the practical unity of the soul, and this unimpeded association of its elements is true or inner freedom of will.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
