enveloping

(eg. vexed, fire, freedom )

enveloping /ɪn ˈvɛ lə pɪŋ/ ?

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Most movie characters have a need to get somewhere else, but Winslet women usually proceed from an enveloping restlessness, a resentment of the status quo.
As dawn broke, a thick mist rolled across the pastureland around the Dutch hamlet of De Punt, enveloping the motionless yellow train.
Women were instructed to wear all-enveloping burqas and men to grow their beards.

"Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, right or left, pro or anti this candidacy," Shepard Smith said, "it appears that Americans by the millions are enveloping it with love and hope."
on Jan 20, 2009 By: Shepard Smith Source: New York Times
"That is why they become introspective and serious," Ibsen wrote, "they brood and doubt _ and they often lose faith. At home every other person is a philosopher! There, the long, dark, winters come with their thick fogs enveloping the houses...
on May 22, 2006 By: Henrik Ibsen Source: Washington Post
Barbie "actually worries me much more than it did 30 years ago," says Levin. "The whole culture - see things like Hannah Montana - has caught up with Barbie, enveloping young girls in a marketing cocoon."
on Mar 4, 2009 By: Diane Levin Source: Boston Globe