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- verb Present participle of
totalize .
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Examples
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Having retaken its ancestral land from the native Arabs, Zionism has set out an occult Jewish tradition formed on a "totalizing" concept of a mythical Judaism.
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Their hallmark is an attempt to reconstruct the subject's project as his manner of dialectically "totalizing" his epoch even as he is being totalized by it.
Jean-Paul Sartre Flynn, Thomas 2004
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Gehr, Jacobs, Hollis Frampton, and Warren Sonbert represent the last wave of what might be called "totalizing" filmmakers: artists who believed their cinematic vision could transform seeing, thinking, and perhaps even society.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Though the reality is in fact far more complicated than this brief sketch will allow us to convey, it is of little surprise that Iran's disaffected post-revolutionary intellectuals have since turned to the likes of Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche to craft a counter-hegemonic discourse capable of putting paid to the "totalizing" claims made by powerful elements within Iran's ruling establishment.
MRZine.org 2009
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Though the reality is in fact far more complicated than this brief sketch will allow us to convey, it is of little surprise that Iran's disaffected post-revolutionary intellectuals have since turned to the likes of Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche to craft a counter-hegemonic discourse capable of putting paid to the "totalizing" claims made by powerful elements within Iran's ruling establishment.
MRZine.org 2009
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Though the reality is in fact far more complicated than this brief sketch will allow us to convey, it is of little surprise that Iran's disaffected post-revolutionary intellectuals have since turned to the likes of Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche to craft a counter-hegemonic discourse capable of putting paid to the "totalizing" claims made by powerful elements within Iran's ruling establishment.
MRZine.org 2009
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"Thus far the promoters of American superpower have evinced no interest in abolishing a system that enables them to maximize power: a free politics, under the right conditions and controls, interposes no barriers to their kind of totalizing powers and may even serve as their auxiliary.
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"Thus far the promoters of American superpower have evinced no interest in abolishing a system that enables them to maximize power: a free politics, under the right conditions and controls, interposes no barriers to their kind of totalizing powers and may even serve as their auxiliary.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local rgatess 2010
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"Thus far the promoters of American superpower have evinced no interest in abolishing a system that enables them to maximize power: a free politics, under the right conditions and controls, interposes no barriers to their kind of totalizing powers and may even serve as their auxiliary.
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History recounts the painful record of such totalizing claims, by people on behalf of their God.
Ryan J. Bell: God Is Becoming King Ryan J. Bell 2012
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