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Against this backdrop, slang is the humanizer, what Walt Whitman called "an attempt of common humanity to escape from bald literalism, and express itself illimitably."

Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011

Against this backdrop, slang is the humanizer, what Walt Whitman called "an attempt of common humanity to escape from bald literalism, and express itself illimitably."

Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1 Omer Rosen 2011

Coleman Young, Dinkins, even Mugabe were met with a burst of joy and awakening, and the feeling that things were irrevocably different and illimitably better.

What would someone have to say on "Meet the Press" to prompt a follow-up question from David Gregory? Ann Althouse 2009

It leaves me illimitably sad to reflect that I have had, on balance, a better life than Elvis.

What? Female narcissism?! It can't be! Ann Althouse 2009

Although their sheer numbers are still growing, they are not the illimitably expanding force that teens appeared to be 20 years ago.

A Much Riskier Passage 2008

Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

That fact must still be faced, and the absence of any word from Brett this morning increased illimitably the sense of strain under which she was labouring.

The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler

Still can I see the hot, bright sky, the sea illimitably sparkling, as they showed

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

To find the just word for all our emotions, to realise that our most trivial thought is illimitably creative, to feel that it is our lot to keep life's gladdest promises, to see the great souls of men and women, steadfast in existence as stars in a windless pool -- these, indeed, are no ordinary pleasures.

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton

Then, realising that any movement of hers might distract his attention and so add illimitably to his danger, she forced herself by an almost superhuman effort to remain where she was.

The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler