Sentence:  Its prima facie presence can be immediately grasped in the controlled critical judgments of a Polybius or a Plutarch or a Sophocles attempting to penetrate to the causes of the most dense phenomenon, human <WSD>polypragmatism</WSD>.  It is present in equal measure in Demosthenes' oration, "On the Crown," and in the Roman Pantheon, where the syntax of word and stone is stretched into ever larger and more complex architectonic units with such ease and skill and daring that the spectator can move effortlessly from part to whole and back again without either moral or aesthetic vertigo. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The application of a single approach or solution to multiple problems.