Sentence:  When Stravinsky shaped his purpose to the shifting scenes of many cultures , many salons , <WSD>many</WSD> dialectics , many personalities , he tried to refashion himself into a stylist of many styles , determined by many disparate cultures . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number