What is "all-around"

Usage examples of "all-around".

Charley Galloway is the skipper, and he appreciates what a fine fellow and all-around splendid aviator I am.

One black Chevrolet Suburban, leased by the Peevers, driven by their gardener and all-around handyman, Joe Peters.

It was unlikely that this was a very remarkable meteoroid, though its cross-section had a curious, all-around layering, rather like the annual rings of a tree branch.

Bar Singh Shastri was an Indian pharmacologist and general all-around genius working in a London hospital on synthesis problems.

If one overbalances the other, there is only nonperformance and all-around frustration.

He never prayed, so to speak, or went with his family to church, but he had a kind of awe for what was alive, a respect for everything from horses to chickadees that amounted to the sort of general all-around respect for the worfd and its creatures that others might take for a belief in God.

Nothing as spectacular as the Caledonian diatreme, thank God, but enough all-around crustal instability to keep us hopping.

She is also our resident artist and all-around cool, creative person.

And all the while I was trying to keep up my all-around awareness, protecting my dark adaptation, and making appreciations.

In short, he’d been a mere instrument of convenience, an enabler, a facilitator, so to speak, an all-around nice guy who’d tried to be helpful, was all.

Joe Newall was not popular in Castle Rock, partly because he made his money out of town, partly because Budreau, his predecessor, had been such an all-around nice fellow (though a fool, they always reminded each other, as if foolishness and niceness went together and it would be death to forget it), but mostly because his damned house was built with out-of-town labor.

In Milagro, this meant that since the last quarter of the nineteenth century most sheep ranchers had been serfs of the Devine Company, which, during the seventies and eighties, in one of those democratic and manifestly destined sleights of Horatio Alger's hand (involving a genteel and self-righteous sort of grand larceny, bribery, nepotism, murder, mayhem, and general all-around and all-American nefarious skulduggery), had managed to own outright, or secure the grazing rights to, all the property on the Jorge San-doval Land Grant in Chamisa County.

Ex-Marine Corps, all-around weapons expert, and a human dynamo, as gung-ho as any man in the Treasury Department, Fortuna was an expert in small unit assault tactics--at least in his own mind.

They included a tiny but intense light source, an all-around visual sensor, and various cutting and sampling tools whose blades and bearings verged on the microscopic.

And three times Gunny Stecker had handed him money once ninety dollarswhich the Gunny said was his fair share of what he had taken away from visiting master gunnery sergeants and sergeants major who also had an unfounded faith in the all-around superiority of the Springfield, and who were foolish enough to put their money where their mouths were.