Literary notes about Voluminous (AI summary)
In literature, the term “voluminous” is employed to evoke a sense of abundance and expansive detail, whether referring to a body of work, physical descriptions, or even the density of notes and commentary. Authors apply the adjective to characterize texts that are extensive in size and scope, as when discussing a vast canon of writings [1, 2, 3] or detailed commentaries that comprehensively explain sacred texts [4, 5]. At times it is used to describe the unwieldy or tedious nature of writing, suggesting an overload of commonplaces and diffused thought [6, 7], while in other instances it accentuates the physical breadth and complex folds of garments or architecture [8, 9, 10]. Thus, “voluminous” serves as a versatile descriptor, conveying both the impressive magnitude and, occasionally, the burdensome excess of material or form [11, 12].
- Six years ago, again, scarcely any of the voluminous literature of art existing in Chinese and Japanese had been translated.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron - His writings are voluminous, and by some he has been considered as the latest of the fathers of the Church.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon - " Round this hypothesis a very voluminous literature has grown up.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell - Fortunately, however, a voluminous commentary on the Rigveda , which explains or paraphrases every word of its hymns, was found to exist.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - It contains the Chinese text of Sun Tzu, the English translation, and voluminous notes along with numerous footnotes.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi - Prose writers are voluminous and unwieldy; their pages crowded with commonplaces, and their thoughts expanded into tediousness.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving - The true rules of composition, which are very few, are not to be found in their voluminous systems.
— from Phaedrus by Plato - She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - His coat was of light-weight cloth with voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - She was rather tall, for a woman; one could divine her slender and graceful, under the voluminous folds of her domino.
— from The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) - The historical facts to prove this statement are voluminous.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves - Let the voluminous considerations by which all modern thought converges toward idealistic or pan-psychic conclusions speak for me.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
