Literary notes about Comprehensive (AI summary)
In literature, the word “comprehensive” is often used to denote an all-encompassing quality that suggests both breadth and thoroughness in thought or presentation. Authors employ it to indicate that a work, discussion, or description covers every relevant aspect of a subject—from expansive philosophical ideals [1] and exhaustive historical surveys [2, 3] to detailed character studies and panoramic portrayals of life [4, 5]. The term frequently appears as an assurance of precision and completeness, whether describing a critical analysis, a visual impression, or a systematic treatise [6, 7, 8]. Its deployment serves to elevate the work by promising an extensive, well-rounded perspective that leaves little unexamined.
- How, then, shall we find the principle of this highest and most comprehensive ideal?
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick - This prohibitory law is expressed in the most absolute and comprehensive terms.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - [Pg 639] Ordahl presents the only comprehensive survey of the literature in this field.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - I believe Rupert Hughes tries to give a real, comprehensive picture of American life, but his style and perspective are barbarous.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald - From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - There is a comprehensive introduction, and a complete system of cross-reference.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - The truly comprehensive life should be the statesman's, for whom perception and theory might be expressed and rewarded in action.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, all-comprehensive glances.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle