- Concern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Encapsulate Quotes
Ideas, distilled into a single word.
Cars, poetry, even a whole book's hidden concern — the writers below use 'encapsulate' to talk about compressing something large into something small. A few borrow the sharper economy found in book quotes to make the same point.
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- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trying to encapsulate how we, as emotional beings, interact with the world and the machines and technology around us - being able to emote through those things. They're not antithetical or mutually exclusive.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
- Captivating
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020