Amy Chua

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.

American Educator

Peter Ackroyd

Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.

British Author

William Godwin

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

English Writer

Leonardo da Vinci

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Italian Artist

Ernestine Rose

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

American Activist

Ross Douthat

I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding of what kind of society it wants than just saying, 'Leave us alone and let us pass laws against abortion.

American Author

Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.

Laurence Tribe

I do not have, nor do I believe I have seen, a vision capacious and convincing enough to propound as an organizing principle for the next phase in the law of our Constitution.

American Lawyer

Henry Giroux

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

American Critic

Used mostly for describing objects with large physical space or volume.

Physical Objects

Implies comfort by indicating there's plenty of available space; not cramped.

Not Crowded

Focuses on the space inside something rather than external dimensions.

Internal Space

Conveys a sense of abundance and the ability to have or do more within a space.

Feel of Abundance

Used metaphorically to describe breadth and depth in intellectual contexts.

Intellectual Capacity

Indicates that an idea or concept has wide applicability or relevance.

Wide Relevance

Often associated with venues that are not only large but also prestigious or impressive.

Prestigious Venues

Highlights a significant capacity to store or contain items.

Capacious