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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.
  1. How, then, shall we find the principle of this highest and most comprehensive ideal?
    — from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
  2. 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
  3. [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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. There is a comprehensive introduction, and a complete system of cross-reference.
    — from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
  7. 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
  8. Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, all-comprehensive glances.
    — from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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