Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of the same shortcoming - and I hope that, one of these days, someone will claim that my book, while it goes in a salutary expansive direction, doesn't go far enough, that there are assumptions I make that show I've missed aspects of Mann's irony and ambiguity.
I learned in my early years in the theater that I would never become the guy on top. I'll never create a show; I don't have a brain expansive enough to see the whole picture, in a way that would behoove anyone.
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.
In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion.
We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.
Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.
A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing. " But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.
In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not evolve in order to do. This doesn't mean that it can't be done or that we shouldn't try to expand the reach of our ethical frameworks, only that there are reasons to be skeptical about its success.
All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority.
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.
The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds. . . empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.
