Meaning of big tent | Babel Free

Definitions

A group, philosophy, or social or political movement that encompasses or seeks to attract a broad range of constituents or members, or views.

also, attributive, idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Humanism is an expansive trisyllable, a veritable "big-tent" of a word, sheltering many varieties of performance under its spreading canvas.”

“The Democratic governor of Mississippi, Paul Johnson, has endorsed Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. […] He said he is confident that the majority of Mississippians "Have⟳ no desire to get⟳ under Lyndon Johnson's big tent and to share⟳ the company already assembled there."”

“The newcomers often bring⟳ an array of ancillary problems to meetings, including emotional trauma and addiction to other drugs. As the organization metamorphoses, its supporters wonder⟳ whether A.A. [Alcoholics Anonymous] can or should be such a big tent.”

“They are not a slice of Americana, as we usually say⟳, but rather, a broad brush of it. While most of our successful sports franchises display some distinct personality, only the [Dallas] Cowboys offer⟳ the big tent.”

“And here in essence is the problem with the Democrats' big tent, as well as the grounds for a wholly new kind of culture war that is probably going to make⟳ us long for the clear lines and simple enmities of the old one.”

“#MeToo, that vast and disembodied and ongoing protest⟳ march⟳, has been subject to similar dynamics: the big tent, flinging its flaps ever wider; the entropic impulse as both a matter⟳ of promise⟳ and a matter⟳ of peril.”

“Vox was established a decade ago when its leader, Santiago Abascal, split⟳ from the Popular Party, long a big center-right tent that included monarchists, libertarian supporters of same-sex marriage, ultraconservative Catholics and Spaniards who detested the independence movements of the north.”

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