Every summer in the museum's basement performance space, local amateur actors put on a play from Schaffner's capacious oeuvre.

WSJ: A Permanent Home for the Itinerant Life | By Joanne Kaufman

But they were cramped, two- or three-man vessels, nothing like Captain Nemo's capacious craft, with its 20-foot ceilings, library, pipe organ and fountain bubbling with fresh water.

FORBES: Eerily Prescient

The struggling bird fitted nicely into the pelican's capacious pouch but was too big to be swallowed, so a prolonged mastication took place before the appalled visitors.

ECONOMIST: Eating as much as their belly can

It was easily carried about, especially in the capacious pockets of a gentleman's long-skirted coat of the era, and it sold well.

WSJ: It Has Hooked Generations of Fishermen | Izaak Walton | The Compleat Angler | By H. George Fletcher

Its long hem folds up and buttons into the neckline, morphing it into a shorter jacket with what resembles a capacious game pocket albeit one more likely to contain an iPad than a day's haul of pheasant.

WSJ: 'Transformer' Men's Outerwear: Action Figures

Into its Luxembourg-sized patch of beach and desert, Dubai has already packed such attractions as the world's largest man-made port, its tallest and most luxurious hotel, its most capacious-ever shopping bag (certified by Guinness), and some of the flashiest events on funsters' racing and golfing calendars.

ECONOMIST: The biggest and best in a patch of beach and desert