Now the only effective counterpoise to the endless expansiveness that is implied in such a programme is the inner or human infinite of concentration.
What happens when the expansiveness is divorced from these elements, one may see in another English follower of Boehme--William Blake.
He attains this expansiveness by putting æsthetic in the place of spiritual perception, and so merging more or less completely the good and the true with the beautiful.
At the very time when Goethe was infecting others with the wild expansiveness of the new movement, he himself was beginning to strike out along an entirely different path.
The expansiveness of prosperity has a like effect, though the moralist is always piping about the beneficent uses of adversity.
This promising lad is only a faint intimation of what we are all coming to when we fully acquire the freedom of the continent, and come into that expansiveness of feeling and of language which characterizes the Great West.
He was irritated by their stolidity, and complained always of a want of expansiveness in them.
He had the air of patronizing Wagner; his speech was bitter, freezing the boisterous expansiveness of Wagner.
They made his general expansiveness more distinguished.
You are rooted deep in the past; you have also a future of infinite expansiveness stretching before you.
In reality, I only know four stories, and a fifth that I don't quite remember, but in moments of expansiveness they feel like a fund or flow.
Armine really looked quite healthy, nothing remaining of his former ethereal air, but a certain expansiveness of brow and dreaminess of eye.
They were followed by Miss Ogilvie, as trim and self-possessed as ever, but with more ease and expansiveness of manner.
But this is not flattery; it is merely a certain childlike expansiveness which lasts with some into quite old age.
Unfortunately, very few understand this childlikeexpansiveness when they see it.
He was from Provence as Maupassant was from Normandy; and Daudet had the Southern expansiveness and abundance, just as Maupassant had the Northern reserve and caution.
With his natural expansiveness and craving for popularity, Sanguinetti was easy of access, and at Frascati in particular his doors were flung open even to the most humble cassocks.
Francois, on his side, greeted his uncle with all the cordial expansiveness of youth.
There was such a cold finality in her voice, that the poor confidant's expansiveness withered up within her beyond even the hope of blossoming again.
The modesty of the statement agrees with the size of the books, but not with the expansiveness of the composite title.
Certain it is, that Julie with all her warmth and expansiveness was not by nature any more formed for absorbing passions than was her brother.
Then this outburst of affection over, what gaiety and mirth follow, and all that human expansiveness which comes so spontaneously from the heart!
Then he gave further vent to the deliberate expansiveness which was his.
The subtle influence that Meredith wielded seemed to have reached him too, warming into expansiveness his hot Spanish blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "expansiveness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amplitude; capacity; grandeur; greatness; largeness; lightness; profundity; verbiage
