contain multitudes

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic)Tohaveacomplexandapparentlyparadoxicalnature; to beinconsistent, especially in awaythat isultimatelyadmirableornoble.[from 1855]1855July 4,Walt Whitman, “[Song of Myself]”, inLeaves of Grass, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.:[James and Andrew Rome],→OCLC,page55:Do I contradict myself? / Very well then … I contradict myself; / I am large … Icontain multitudes.1970,Bernard Benstock,Sean O’Casey, Lewisburg, Pa.:Bucknell University Press,→OCLC:Mirror in My House is both a portrait of the artist ([Seán] O'Caseyhimself) and a portrait of an artist (a fictional John-Johnny-Sean Casside whocontains multitudes), yet it is the unrelenting single vision of a particular personality with a fixed point of view.1996,Richard Taruskin, “Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny”, inStravinskyand the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works throughMavra(A Centennial Book), volume II, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.:University of California Press,→ISBN, part IV (On the Cusp of the New Classicism: A Heritage Redefined),page1508:[Sergei] Diaghilevwould show Europe that Russia was large andcontained multitudes: multitudes of social classes and occupations, and multitudes of indigenous musical styles, not all of them "Asiatic" or peasant.2020January 28, Lindsey Sullivan, “WatchLes MizTour Javert Preston Truman Boyd’s Luminous Performance of ‘Stars’”, inBroadway Buzz‎[1], archived fromthe originalon7 June 2023:In taking on this new role, Boyd had learned thatLes Miz's"bad guy"contains multitudes—not unlike the stars he sings about.

Examples:

EN: Very well, then, I contradict myself. "I am large. I contain multitudes."
ES: Me contradigo mucho a mí mismo para poder contener multitudes.
EN: We contain multitudes.
ES: Somos legión.
EN: I contain multitudes."
ES: Contengo multitudes."
ES: Contengo multitudes.
EN: Walt Whitman wrote, "I contain multitudes".
ES: Walt Whitman escribió, "Yo contengo multitudes".
EN: Good detective knows that every task, every interaction, no matter how seemingly banal, has the potential to contain multitudes.
ES: Un buen detective sabe que cada tarea, cada interacción, no importa cuan banal aparente ser, tiene el potencial de contener multitudes.
EN: I contain multitudes.
ES: Contengo multitudes.
ES: Contengo multitudes.
ES: Soy muchas personas.
ES: Yo contengo multitudes.
EN: I am large, I contain multitudes"!
ES: Yo soy inmenso, contengo multitudes."
EN: And I contain multitudes.
ES: Y yo contengo multitudes.
EN: Shes right! Pumpkin Spice lattes contain multitudes!
ES: ¡El latte de calabaza tiene varias opciones!
EN: - I contain multitudes.
ES: - Contengo multitudes.
EN: Oh, honey, I contain multitudes.
ES: Cariño, tengo muchísimos.
EN: I contain multitudes, Carlos.
ES: No me conoces, Carlos.
EN: Whitman said, "I am large, I contain multitudes."
ES: Whitman dijo: "Soy grande, contengo multitudes".
EN: I contain multitudes more than I ever thought or knew.
ES: En mí hay más multitudes que las que pensé que conocía.
EN: I contain multitudes, motherfucker.
ES: Soy multifacética, imbécil.

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).