If this theory is backed up by experiment, it might perhaps replace all religious accounts of creation - in Hawking's capacious mind, it already has.

Emily Brontë should have written poetic plays; the overflow of George Eliot's capacious mind should have spread itself when the creative impulse was spent upon history or biography.

It is significant that the most original and capacious minds, like the most powerful bodies, often betray noticeable awkwardness at the start; they need prolonged exercise in order to secure freedom of movement; they must have time for growth.

The aim is to discover how foreign policy affected the course of the war and, possibly, to learn more about Lincoln's capacious mind.

The reader comes away from "Where I Fell to Earth" with an admiration for Mr. Conrad's capacious mind.

The project of a wide and simultaneous revolt, if such had really been formed, was worthy of a capacious mind, and, had it not been prematurely discovered, might have been overwhelming in its consequences.

His capacious mind requires capacious forms.

He drives and exhorts, setting an example of furious activity; he works on fifty things at once, somehow balancing them all, keeping them all filed within his capacious mind.

For the capacious and restless mind that created these drawings leaves a lasting impress, and it is bracingly disorienting.

I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.