What is "expansive"

Usage examples of "expansive".

Although a successor Sunni general almost certainly would not be as willing as Saddam to take risks, interpret reality to suit his needs, and pursue an expansive foreign policy based on aggression, it would still be tough to accept what would look like a Saddam clone.

It was the first time that this had ever happened, for Madame Aubain was not of an expansive nature.

Indeed when under the expansive influence of a sufficient quantity of malt extract or ancient brandy from the cellaret on his library desk he had sometimes been heard to enunciate the theory that there was very little difference between the people in jail and those who were not.

The expansive beings which are thus created, monsters of universality, form doubles along vertical or horizontal axes, where the break, a sign of their essential dichotomy, is always signified.

Then, should you ever feel vexed or disheartened by the irritations and failures you meet in your journey through the evanescent masquerade of this world, pause and say to yourself, Is it worthy of me, while the entire realm of existence asks me to appropriate it in ever expansive possession, to be angry or sad because some infinitesimal speck of it does not grant me as much of itself as I crave?

I am not a believer in geomancy, or that geographical places have spirits of their own, but I do believe that certain vistas can provide an expansive pattern of reality that resonates with prior memory patterns.

Constitution is extremely attentive to the self-reflective moment, the life and exercise of the Constitution are instead, throughout their jurisprudential and political history, decidedly open to expansive movements, to the renewed declaration of the democratic foundation of power.

As befitted his status as chieftain of the Red Axes, Kesk Turnskull lived with a certain style, in an expansive, albeit decaying, house on the river.

Lucy and Gregory immediately moved forward to peer inside, but the orangery was dark, the only light the moon, shining through the expansive windows.

The young men were especially pinched as to their expansive chests, the broadcloth coming much too short at this point, and shrugging up oddly enough at the shoulders, while the phenomenally slick arrangement of their hair was calculated to produce a depressing effect on the mind of the observer.

She let the other apprentice guide them out of the canals, past the riberry grove and across the expansive guildhall courtyard.

The room itself, an expansive arrangement of tiered, skylit ceilings and windowed exterior walls, would easily hold a thousand.

Grudgingly at first, then more willingly as she artfully drew him into a more expansive discussion, Macro talked to her in a way he had never before with a woman.

Since his accident at the margins of the pentacle, the young Egyptian boy had been facing her, chest and chin thrust out, hands sweeping this way and that to illustrate his expansive statements and occasionally return his loincloth to position.

He made an expansive gesture that completed the sentence and promised all that the most exacting might demand of a reciprocatory nature.