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  • n  an unwieldy largeness
  • n  the property of being large in mass

  • All showed the same trend: longer, lower bodies, further streamlining, an impression of massiveness attained by redesigned front ends, cartwheel-sized hubcaps, heavy grilles .
  • Handel's serene 18th-Century score was sung with traditional massiveness by a chorus of 1,800 voices.
  • The massiveness of a Stephen Samuel Wise, the momentum of a Charles Reynolds Brown, the gestures of a Robert Norwood, the urbane asceticism of a Henry Sloane Coffin, are lost .
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  • Opportunity, Montana
    Brad Tyer's Opportunity, Montana (Beacon, 2013) is a meticulously researched, entertaining rant of nonfiction that targets with bullseye precision contemporary environmentalism's faith in redemption. by Jo Deurbrouck With their storm-swallowing massiveness and veined, granitic peaks, Western landscapes invite a comforting lie: Theirs is a resilience no species so thin of skin, so vulnerable to ...
    July 24, 2013 - Boise Weekly

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