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She understood now dearly what she had meant long ago when she said to Adde Ratignolle that she would give up the unessential, but she would never sacrifice herself for her children. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z
That’s because most of us don’t put unessential information in the middle of our sentences, especially when speaking. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
She understood now clearly what she had meant long ago when she said to Adèle Ratignolle that she would give up the unessential, but she would never sacrifice herself for her children. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z
There is one thing that was very attractive about the camps, and that is that all of the unessential factors in human life — the look, the wealth, the connection — none of that mattered. ‘Son of Saul’: An immersive portrait of life in a Nazi death camp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z
But it does mean there are likely to be cuts to other services which the council deems as "unessential". What is happening in 'bankrupt' Birmingham? 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z
The JMA urged residents in the area to avoid unessential outings and warned of potential mudslides, flooding and thunderstorms. A strong tropical storm is lashing parts of Japan and disrupting holiday travel 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z
The company acknowledged that 2022 would be a more difficult year from the start and soaring inflation has made it even tougher as Americans take more items deemed unessential off their shopping lists. Best Buy’s outlook on sales improves ahead of the holidays 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z
Every failed attempt, passing year, and snapped femur becomes a chunk of unessential marble that must be cast aside for the sculpture to emerge. Even a Broken Femur Can’t Stop Tony Hawk 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z
“Last year, I was completely unessential in pretty much every way,” Rapinoe said. Here’s what Megan Rapinoe had to say about her busy year away from NWSL soccer, her Reign return, fight for equal pay and more 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z
Top Iranian officials initially downplayed the risks posed by the virus outbreak, before recently urging the public to follow measures like wearing masks and avoiding unessential travel. Iran closes businesses, curtails travel amid virus surge 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z
That may help explain why Quibi hasn’t broken through in a crowded streaming marketplace: Its content is largely “meh” and unessential. What’s it like watching Kiefer Sutherland’s ‘The Fugitive’ on Quibi, where episodes run 10 minutes max? 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z
For months, would-be gamblers have been told to stay home, avoid congregating indoors, refrain from unessential activity and keep from touching things other people have touched. All masked up and ready to gamble as Maryland’s casinos reopen 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z
Satie’s genius was in his removal of all that was unessential yet leaving in all that felt ambiguous. Commentary: Why Satie? Why now? How one composer embodies our time of loneliness and angst 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z
How is purchasing paint, or gardening tools, or seeds to plant your own food during a pandemic “unessential?” Pushing back against the little tyrants of the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z
Mr. Trump first advised Americans to keep children home from school and avoid restaurants, unessential travel and gatherings of more than 10 people on March 16. How the Virus Crisis Could Help a Red-State Democrat Stay in Office 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z
Avoid gathering with friends, attending church or taking part in unessential activities outside the home. Editorial Roundup: Tennessee 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z
My first action was to make sure we were not bringing in any unessential staff. 'People are panic-buying cocaine': the drug dealer, spaceman, therapist and others on life after coronavirus 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z
The government hasn’t restricted travel to Wuhan but advises against unessential trips. Unknowns of the new virus make global quarantines a struggle 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z
Although it isn’t realistic to expect the White House to eschew all other subjects during a crisis, perhaps the president could avoid tweeting about unessential matters until the storm passes. Trump’s Reassuring Hurricane Response 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z
If low-wage fathers remain unessential, we will continue routing whole communities of women and children into poverty - and great masses of unmarried, unmotivated men into rootless, antisocial, violent criminality. Ban the Box? An Effort to Stop Discrimination May Actually Increase It 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z
As Congressional gridlock continues to keep a lid on the Pentagon's base budget, it's long past time to reduce spending on unessential goods and services. Trim the Pentagon's Shadow Work Force 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z
“Nor have you been afraid to divest whatever is unessential in order to regain the authority and trust which is demanded of ministers of Christ,” he said. After Criticism, Pope Francis Confronts Priestly Sex Abuse 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z
Reschedule unessential tasks, and release stress with a walk outside. Astrological Forecasts for 02/28/2015 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z
That was the feeling that pervaded the entire experience: that this was just unessential, especially when the trailer would premiere online in under an hour. New Yorkers don't care about 'Star Wars' teasers 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z
The concept is simple and refers to a small amount of money spent regularly on an unessential item. How to Plug Your Budget Leaks 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z
His report included numerous examples like a 2005 notice to dealers, directing them to tell customers to remove unessential items from their key chains. Exclusive: Prosecutors' case against GM focuses on misleading statements 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z
Dealers were also informed, as the time, to advise customers to remove unessential items from their key chains. G.M. Recalls 3 Million More Cars 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z
By Oregon, her body was in peak trail condition, pared down like her pack of any unessential weight. Pacific Crest Trail speed-hiking champ looks back 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z
Its recommendation: Advise owners to remove “unessential items from their key chain.” In General Motors Recalls, Inaction and Trail of Fatal Crashes 2014-03-03T02:44:05Z
Some may say the format is a quaint, unessential relic, a vestigial fin of golf's yesteryear. The Merits of Match Play 2014-02-19T05:00:00Z
But we may convince ourselves that the motional conception of heat is now as unessential as was formerly its conception as a substance. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z
Certainly these legends have their close counterparts in Norse mythology; the two series only require to be stripped of local colouring, and some unessential details, to display very clearly their common brotherhood. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z
But on the other hand feeling too may be onesided, unessential and bad. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z
The attention to detail, the obliteration of the unessential, the concentration in expression, which the form of the short story demands, tends to a beneficent influence on the style of fiction. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z
Without whose vesting beauty all were wrapp'd In unessential gloom; and thou, O sun! Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z
The needs in these respects also were gradually supplied by reducing unessential industries and by organizing supplies of soldier, civilian, and foreign labor. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z
The process was usually explained as the result of the action of a spirit, angel or devil, and many unessential formulae, invocations, “calls,” written charms with cabbalistic signs, and fumigations, were employed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z
Where the picture presents an unessential aspect of life it is certainly in good taste to conjoin it with an unessential material, such as the romance takes from private events and subjective passions. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z
The cemeteries, strikingly white, seem to take on a duller tone, and are lost in the smiling landscape, like an unessential note in a song. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z
But this property extends only to the essential, not to the unessential in the course of life to which it applies. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z
Nor because religion was freed from all unessential ornament, was the house stripped of comfort and luxury. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z
It is the essential life which we all of us contain, and, as such, it is that part of ourselves with which the essential life of those who have quitted this unessential life can communicate. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z
Everywhere there is a distinction drawn between external, unessential existences, and one essential amongst them, which he is. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z
With this as a guide we have touched on many hypotheses, some essential and some unessential to the general line of thought. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z
To this unessential belong the detailed events and actions which are the material in which the empirical character shows itself. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z
All forms are merely external appendages, unessential to the nature of religion, and as distinct from it as the casket is from the gem, or the body from the vital principle. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z
Voltaire, who always attacked only the temporary and the unessential, is in this respect inferior to Moli�re. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z
There it gives rise not to incidents that are unessential to that greater world which is the aim of our religiously, serious outlook on life, but to a process in which All is involved. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z
Many plays of modern realism have been overloaded with details of setting, with figures, or 88 even scenes really unessential. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
Thus we see that several ideas which are different in unessential particulars may be thought by means of one concept, i.e., may be brought under it. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z
"I am here on a matter of business," continued the stranger briskly, dismissing the question of recognition as one unessential to the business on hand—"and—what have you got to propose?" Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z
Aristotle's fundamental requirement of the unity of the fable is regarded as unessential, and is simply observed in order to show the poet's ingenuity. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z
Did we not even know what sort of underwear encased the ample figure of the man with the amazing memory of unessential things? Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z
To Apollonius the mere fashion of a man’s faith was unessential; he was at home in all lands, among all cults. Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. 2011-03-04T03:01:05.837Z
Then we shall also distinguish the Idea itself from the way in which its manifestation appears in the observation of the individual, and recognise the former as essential and the latter as unessential. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z
Aristotle's idea that metre is an unessential element in determining poetry has never really taken root in literary criticism. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z
She had never learnt any accepted code in dealings with money, and her own instinct led her to believe it an unessential question. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z
Indeed, he regards credit as unessential for the static analysis, and banishes it from the "Wesen" of his static state. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z
Such were flagellation, mutilation of some unessential part of the body, or the emission of a certain quantity of blood. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z
Out here one realises more what things really matter, and how to distinguish the essential from the unessential. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War
And this interpretation is not strained; for this logic expressly teaches that in the perfected real system all temporal elements are unessential to logical operations. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
Still, all these differences are unessential; in principle the academic libraries are alike in the New and Old Worlds. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses
Even in Plato, who makes much of it, it is quite unessential to the fundamental ideas of his philosophy, and is only artificially connected with them. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
The farmer cannot keep the earth for us without an enlightened and very active support from every other person, and without adequate safeguards from exploitation and from unessential commercial pressure. The Holy Earth
As I have said, the average man, with the best intentions, will not go too light, and so I have laid especial emphasis on the necessity of discarding the unessential. Camp and Trail
Once again, St. Paul is prepared to let everything turn on even a small and unessential point, if that point has become the symbol of a vital principle for good or evil. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition
Differential equations arise in the expression of the relations between quantities by the elimination of details, either unknown or regarded as unessential to the formulation of the relations in question. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus"
On the other hand, nothing unessential can be brought out without obscuring the real story. The Technique of Fiction Writing
For my purpose, the determination of its absolute duration is wholly unessential; but unquestionably the time was enormous. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse
If this is understood it does not matter: the analysis of the alternative propositions is unessential. Logic, Inductive and Deductive
It should lay down clearly and plainly the essential conditions of unity, and as regards the unessential should content itself with saying, "Here men differ; one thinks thus, another thus." St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition
By what criterion is the convert to distinguish the essential from the unessential? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
He cannot drag in by the heels episodes unessential to the story solely for the sake of their intrinsic interest; he cannot waste words upon unessential persons. The Technique of Fiction Writing
In a picture of a boat or an apple they look for those unessential qualities which minister to their pleasure, and of which alone they are aware. Pot-Boilers
I do not see how the unessential fact that I made myself into a winch to pull you up the cliff, and that I am still smarting for it——' He looked me all over comically. Miss Cayley's Adventures
The details are unessential to the main point, which was our decision. Gold
But, though I have detected and removed these two pages of irrelevance, I foresee that unessential and therefore obscurantic matter will creep in. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography
He should remember that each item of unessential matter given place by him will lessen by just so much the number of words available to give the real story verisimilitude and consequent interest and appeal. The Technique of Fiction Writing
It is needless to say that, in giving his account, he abstained from any mention of the brass bottle or the Jinnee, as unessential elements in his story. The Brass Bottle
My nature inherently loved importance and display, but I mistook the unessential for the essential. A Manifest Destiny
The difference as to time and circumstances is that which is unessential. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1
What he does not like is unessential, if not a positive misrepresentation. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)
Generally, at least in the first instance, they take their creed in gross, without distinguishing between essential and unessential elements. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879
Evil is once more and always something factitious and unessential. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle
The things that bind us together are so compelling, after all, that any new experiences brought by our freedom must seem absolutely unessential in comparison. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays
They are separated only by space, time, and unessential circumstances; so that we may say that the general judgment appears in every partial judgment upon Israel. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1
As far as the teaching of grammar is concerned, it is unessential. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College
In unessential matters he is ready to yield to the sentiments of his inferiors. The Red Hand of Ulster
On August 11, 1915, Von Scholtz's group occupied the bridgehead at Vilna, which had been stubbornly defended until the Russian retreat had progressed far enough to make its further possession unessential. The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War
The same poetical feeling is shown in his biographies; his subject is invariably chosen for its picturesqueness, and whatever is unessential to portraiture is thrown into the background. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History
With her pride unhurt, her belligerency was unessential. Sunlight Patch
He had cause to feel that his presence was absolutely unessential when, with a happy, soft little laugh, Miss Vost sprang up and was crushed in the cradle of Bobbie's great arms. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China
She had that decadent love of minute finish in the unessential so often seen in persons of a nervous yet persistent temperament. The Limit
It transfers, without modification, all that is dull, and squalid, and unessential. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy
Men of large calibre have an unusual sagacity in sifting the unessential from the essential as also the false from the true. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit
And if it be thus in matters of fundamental belief, much more will it be so in matters of outward expression and in the unessential forms of Christian truth. India, Its Life and Thought
His failure to provide for the material welfare of his family, though quite natural in a man to whom all material things seemed unessential, must have sorely tried her patience. History of Education
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
We shall require him to have the capacity for discriminating the essential from the unessential, for bringing that essential into proper relief and placing upon it the due emphasis. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty
Let it be my task to find it and to separate it from what is unessential and false. The Enjoyment of Art
They set one upon a completely wrong track, bringing forward what is unessential and throwing what is essential into the background. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
The persons in whom silence is a mark of natural fine breeding are those who, being able to taste the real essence of things, are apt, perhaps wrongly, to despise the unessential. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life
Everything which had once been to him important had become, if not worthless, then unessential. Studies in love and in terror
Crawfurd, writing in 1852, stated that Malay can be written or spoken without the least difficulty, without a word of Sanskrit or Arabic, and described the foreign elements in Malay as “extrinsic and unessential.” A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay
Consciousness, on this view, is a kind of by-product inexpressible in terms of force and motion, and unessential to the molecular changes going on in the brain. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
A great many people seem to think that religion is a kind of luxury in life, a Sunday delicacy, an educated taste, an unessential food, which one can, at his discretion, take or go without. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion
It is quite unessential, for instance, what the real name was of the lady known in this book as "Mrs. Cummins"; but her story is an important element in the narrative. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
The serpents are very real, very effective, in their way, but logically they are unessential tresses. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
In war man strips himself of the unessential things which make up the museum of superfluities that he calls his home. David Malcolm
Yet they are unessential for our purposes here, the more as their interest lies mostly in the complex structure of the mental state while the curative features are in the background. Psychotherapy
The habit of looking for accidental or arbitrary relations of names and things is cultivated, and the power of logical, spontaneous thought is injured by neglecting essential for unessential relations. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
But I'm afraid that my difficulties lie deeper than the unessential differences in dogma. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
They are also free from that dominance of the unessential, which, in life as in literature, is a more innocent but more subtle and perhaps equally ruinous vice. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
The third is the faculty of self-repression, the power to cast away all which, however laboriously acquired, is dramatically unessential. My Contemporaries In Fiction
Such an edition adds to the difficulties of the work by confusing essential and unessential matters. Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College
On the side of business every firm in every line of production was competing in the manufacture of essential and unessential articles, in transportation, and in bidding for and holding the necessary labor. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
No spoken words of love may have passed between them, but Donald knew well how unessential these were when heart called to heart. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
Of the two orders, the Doric and the Ionic, the Doric seems to me the purest embodiment of the true Greek spirit, in its faultless form, and its austere restraint and rejection of the unessential. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
Just because it has a definite place in history such a symbol will necessarily have gathered to itself much that is false and much that is accidental and unessential. The Complex Vision
It was one of her own offspring, only shorn of its unessential adornments. When Patty Went to College
He saw life naked, stripped of everything unessential. Clayhanger
It is the mark of good taste to reject that which is unessential, and the "tact of omission," well exemplified in Cézanne, has been found excellently axiomatic. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
There is a better understanding of values, and of the difference between the essential and the unessential, and we see that not all labor that commands pay is useful labor. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History
"What is the reason," said Mrs. K., "that good people are left to differ so about unessential things in religion, when they all hold to the same way of being saved?" Bertha and Her Baptism
And the historical names are apparently unessential; yet they remain. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
This book is characterized by directness of treatment, by the selection, so far as possible, of the most interesting and practical matter, and by the omission of what is unessential. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
We have surely all had some experience with the type of persons whose associations are so complete and impartial that all their conversation teems with unessential and irrelevant details. The Mind and Its Education
Character-painting is unessential to a romance, belonging as it does properly to the novel of actual life, in which the romantic element is equally out of place. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
She retreated a little way from him, as if she felt he might exact a husband's right of farewell, which the absence of witnesses made quite unessential. A Husband by Proxy
We do not tell the Moslem that it is only important for him to believe that there is but one God, and wholly unessential whether Mahomet was His prophet. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
The story of the years linking the famished boy to the pudgy red-faced man of the restaurant is unessential,—an everyday story, sordid, and barren of romance. The Henchman
In regard to this necessity of baptism Pelagius agreed with his great adversary, saving an unessential modification, as we have seen before. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The unessential will fade out, the essential remain; but with Sharp the trouble is that the first observation has often been hurried. Irish Plays and Playwrights
By exalting the eucharist into an expiatory sacrifice, the partaking of the elements by the people came to be considered quite unessential, and is generally neglected. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.
It is a fallacy similar to that of supposing that money is the foundation of wealth, whereas it is only the wholly unessential symbol of property. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
Such portions, however, as are unessential to a proper understanding of the body by the pupil are set in small type, to be used at the discretion of the teacher. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
They differed only in some unessential details concerning the condition of that lost state. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
I have been in a Free Kirk which had no pulpit; the pastor stood on a kind of raised platform, like a lecturer in a lecture-room, but that practice is unessential. Historical Mysteries
But I will venture to say that her amiabilities, her yielding moods, are really the unessential parts of her disposition, and that a certain admirable ferocity is the notable feature of her intellectual character. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
It is thus clear that the lava flows are unessential—indeed, we may say accidental—contributions to the mass. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
No house could be freer of unessential embellishment; in detail it is plain almost to severity; yet the full impression that it gives, far from being austere, is of friendliness and hospitality. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
That in which the images all differ is unessential: that in which they all agree must be the essential thought. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Many critics have asserted—not entirely without cause—that the type of photoplay comedy-dramas originated by Douglas Fairbanks are less than one-half action, the rest being merely clever but often unessential sub-titling. Writing the Photoplay
"I thank your Excellency for your gracious readiness to grant the men an interview," said Pierre de l'Hopital, having regard to the essential matter and disregarding the unessential manner. The Black Douglas
The principles of the former engine, so far from being unessential, were indispensable to the construction of the new one, and should be clearly understood by him who would build or use the latter. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar.
For each and all of these, there is a profitable and an unprofitable mode of working, and the speciality of the matter is unessential. Practical Essays
He called his pictures by the names of Scriptural incidents, and placed figures in the foreground as small and unessential as those of Turner. The Book of Art for Young People
The first three verses are a repetition, with some unessential variations, of the last two verses of Chronicles, of which he is also believed, on good grounds, to have been the author. Companion to the Bible
I lament sincerely that unessential differences of opinion should ever have been deemed sufficient to interdict half the society from, the rights and the blessings of self-government, to proscribe them as unworthy of every trust. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
This is evidently an unessential distinction, and for the present I shall use either term without distinction, meaning by dust or smoke, solid particles floating in the air. Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884
Let there be but a fine idealism in the quest, and the particular object is unessential. Fishing with a Worm
And yet I was continually imagining the war already over and what I merely thought seemed unessential and irrelevant. Combed Out
Indeed, Professor Babbitt quotes him as saying in a letter to Charles Eliot Norton, "mere sanity is the most Philistine and at the bottom most unessential of a man's attributes." Preaching and Paganism
Kenny, however, took immediate advantage of Garry's attitude to sidetrack what he considered the preposterous irrelevance of the shotgun, the one unessential thing in the studio, and point with rising temper to the statuette. Kenny
It was not a greater circumstantiality of statement than was demanded, but greater directness,—that it should be relieved of what was unessential to its purpose, tending only to obscure it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864
Apart from the foregoing, only minor and unessential modifications have been introduced. New Latin Grammar
They can tell, if they will, what to do and what to avoid, what to exclude as unnecessary or unessential and what to concentrate upon. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers
Indeed, his relations with his demonstrators were typical of his judgment of men, his distinction between the essential and the unessential, which made him a successful administrator. Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch
Immediately after listening to "Tristan and Isolda" all other operas seem away from the point, to be concerned with the secondary issues of life, to babble without fervour or directness of unessential matters. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians
But the danger which beset Gotama, and which he consistently and consciously avoided, though Mohammed could not, was to give authoritative decisions on unessential points as to both doctrine and practice. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
Yet she was not without a good many very small and unessential resources for sleepless moments. Living Alone
But the matter of type is, in this connection, unessential. The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries
His figures, in fact, were false; but they were unessential to the general thesis he had to make. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham
The severity of her self-denial was directed entirely against the trivial and the unessential. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage
All alike are unessential and trivial, and merit the attention only of those who know nothing higher. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
They bury their testimony in unessential details, I tell you, those two children were worth all the rest put together. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
With the lame and illogical excuse that they were useful as discipline, though unessential in reality, they were retained by the Brahman priest. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
He had an astonishing faculty of discarding everything that was unessential and fastening on the thing that really mattered in any situation. Ulster's Stand For Union
Memory has this great advantage over direct vision: it retains more vividly the essential things, 258and has a habit of losing what is unessential to the pictorial impression. The Practice and Science of Drawing
For application in practice this purification of the glycerine extract offers no advantage, because the substances so eliminated are unessential for the human organism. Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891
Occasional personal peculiarities in his style, deviations in unessential things from the common form, give a close personal touch to his message. Walking-Stick Papers
Rites and the paraphernalia of religion are essential till one learns that they are unessential. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
In this and other particulars I look for great improvement in our educational methods; but I do not think that, except in local and unessential particulars, here and there, they are now retrograding. A Librarian's Open Shelf
Canons in criticism are as unessential as subjects in painting. Since Cézanne
In short, "delighted" here seems to mean, lightened of all that is gross or unessential. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
The gross canaille are represented, but now no longer the most accurate in colour and most absorbing in interest of the characters of the play, or unessential to the evolution of the plot. Elizabethan Demonology
Nothing but mere unessential qualities, such as extension and the relations of space. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English
This incongruity must be, as has been said, an unessential one, else the mood of the observer changes from happiness to unhappiness, and the comic becomes the pathetic. How to Teach
And, in the same way, there may be an unessential connection between art and politics, though more remote and unimportant still. Since Cézanne
In Hilarius’s confession we omit a set of ritual invocations; as unessential as the mystic rites used by savages in making curari. Cock Lane and Common-Sense
The enlarged sentence, however, allows as a rule of considerable freedom in the handling of what may be called “unessential” parts. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech
Whence comes it, if not from the more or less obscure feeling which tells us that the idea alone is the living principle in things, but all else unessential and vain shadow? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English
I condense the unessential parts: A young man of twenty-three, belonging to a tribe near Paramatta, was living in a cave with two sisters, one of fourteen, the other of twenty. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Movements in art have, more often than not, been the result of an extraordinarily violent preoccupation, on the part of artists, with the unessential and insignificant. Since Cézanne
The more firmly that a Church holds the necessity of what is unessential, the more it diverges from the Spirit of Christ. The Silent Isle
Looking through the narrow aperture of a particular occasion, she had an illuminating glimpse of larger issues, unessential differences, and essential things in common that separated and bound the world together. The Blood Red Dawn
But does not the continual mutation of matter and the universal lot of final dissolution teach us the unessential character of this union, and that it is no intimate fusion? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English
Certain unessential peculiarities may, from the force of circumstances, be left in abeyance for a time, or even permanently, but the dominant features must be retained. Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.
A connection there is, but, as was to be expected, an unessential one. Since Cézanne
"Yes, that may be, since strangeness is not in the nature of a thing, but in its relation to something extrinsic—in this case an unessential observer." The Woodlanders
These passed, if any pass, the void profound Of unessential Night receives him next, Wide-gaping, and with utter loss of being Threatens him, plunged in that abortive gulf. Paradise Lost
He likes to be consulted, and I pamper him as much as possible in all unessential details. Dear Enemy
Adams, who thought the query unessential, did not reply, and Airy for some months took no steps to verify by telescopic search the results of the young mathematician's investiation. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28
She understood now clearly what she had meant long ago when she said to Adele Ratignolle that she would give up the unessential, but she would never sacrifice herself for her children. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
Next, that a man who had a standard of proportion could see wherein the deviations of his sketched figure were essential to the effect he wished it to produce, and wherein they were unessential. Albert Durer
A fact is to him a fact, never mind how unessential, and he misses the breadth of truth in his devotion to accuracy. Among My Books Second Series
He mistakes the essential for the unessential, and vice versa. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People
To know essential details from unessential details is the study in all arts. Crooked Trails
I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
I shall omit names, since they are unessential. Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks
The men who write pulling letters weigh carefully every sentence, not only pruning away every unessential word but using words of Anglo-Saxon origin wherever possible rather than words of Latin derivation. Business Correspondence
The rule is so unessential, that Wieland thought Horace was here laughing at the young Pisos in urging a precept like this with such solemnity of tone as if it were really of importance. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
You may call it an administrative building or a penal institute, the name is unessential, for the substance alone counts. The Positive School of Criminology Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901
The rage for "realism," which is healthy in as far as it insists on truth, has become unhealthy, in as far as it confounds truth with familiarity, and predominance of unessential details. The Principles of Success in Literature
It is as well, therefore, to go into it once more and distinguish the essential from the unessential. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
But among the attributes common to a class we cannot distinguish between essential and unessential, except by the aid of definition itself. Deductive Logic
Voltaire himself has indulged in various infractions of the Unity of Time; nevertheless he has not dared directly to attack the rule itself as unessential. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
To accomplish the latter one has to know what to refute and what to leave alone; he must distinguish between the important and the unessential, and he must take care not to "refute himself." Practical Argumentation
But it is equally necessary to confine our attention, in this general anatomic description of the vertebrate-body, to the essential facts, and pass by all the unessential. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
How fortunate that the exact details of royal, political and military events are as unessential as they are unattainable! Without Prejudice
Everything unessential was stripped off the sledge, including dip-circle, thermometers, hypsometer, camera, spare clothing and most of the medical and repair kits. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
The Chorus with him is for the most part an unessential ornament; its songs are frequently wholly episodical, without reference to the action, and more distinguished for brilliancy than for sublimity and true inspiration. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
He can weigh every bit of evidence; he can test the strength and weakness of every statement; he can separate the essential from the unessential; and he can distinguish between prejudice and reason. Practical Argumentation
How little does all that has been written above touch the real question at issue, yet, what self-discipline and mental training is required before we learn to distinguish the essential from the unessential. The Fair Haven
I hope you didn't mind the way I was obliged to cut them up in some unessential details, so as to suit the policy of the paper. Philistia
I want you, however, to remodel the introduction, and to make some unessential but convenient difference in the arrangement of some of the figures. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
In the first place the difference here assumed between tragic and comic Unity is altogether unessential. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
To Sebastian," she answered, shuddering, "the End is all; the Means are unessential. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose
We may also remark that the contrast of historical and unhistorical is obviously inapplicable to this case, and, moreover, is unessential for the end we have in view. Prolegomena
Then, too, he developed a boyish pleasure in certain unessential though cherished objects and occupations, that he indulged extravagantly and to the neglect of things, not to say duties, incontestably of more importance. The Pit
For, in this case, it is quite foreign and unessential to the nature of things, and cannot be cognized from the general laws of nature. The Critique of Pure Reason
Sententious as the opera seems, it is yet puffed out, padded, and bedizened with unessential ornament compared with the story. A Second Book of Operas
The works of the "localisers" I have not read: Tennyson disliked these researches, as a rule, and they appear to be unessential, and often hazardous. Alfred Tennyson
And I can't imagine myself sitting in an office and dealing with such unessential things as stocks and bonds.... Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day
I deem it unessential to verify Mr. Booth's statistics. Evolution and Ethics
Questions of this unessential sort dribbled on for a considerable time. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2
The doctor stared slightly at the unessential query. A Sappho of Green Springs
All the rest is unessential, only there to conceal the true purpose! My Life and My Efforts
Even Mr. Hamilton, to whom most of the things of this world—his beloved store excepted—seemed to be unessential trivialities, spoke of the table linen. Mary-'Gusta
Man troubles himself too much about the unessential The Angel and the Author, and others
And he might perhaps have at once gone, had Freytag been clearly instructed, so as to know the essential from the unessential here. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16
Reads on soldiering withal; studious to know the rationale of it, the ancient and modern methods of it, the essential from the unessential in it; to understand it thoroughly,—which he got to do. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09
The Phenomenon of Brandenburg is small, remote; and the essential particulars, too delicate for the eye of Dryasdust, are mostly wanting, drowned deep in details of the unessential. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03
This is the curious mythical account; incorrect in some unessential particulars, but in the main and singular part of it well-founded. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01
His German bias must have given his youth a terrible twist, for the Lodges saw at a glance what he had thought unessential because un-German. The Education of Henry Adams
It was like a woman, he thought, to fasten upon the unessential. Scaramouche
These past, if any pass, the void profound Of unessential Night receives him next Wide gaping, and with utter loss of being 440 Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf. The Poetical Works of John Milton
They are the work of a mind as attentive to details, as ready to subordinate or obliterate details which are unessential Essays in Little
In the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries the writing of each century may be discerned, while the general tendency is towards complication, use of abbreviations and contractions, and development of unessential parasitic forms of letters. Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink.
Whoever observes the people he deals with soon notices that there is probably not one among them that does not possess some similar, apparently unessential quality like that mentioned above. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
He at times felt keenly the narrowness and bigotry of the church — the warring of the sects over the unessential points.* A Biography of Sidney Lanier
The trouble was that whenever I came back to consciousness in solitary, unessential and intricate details faded from my memory. The Jacket (Star-Rover)
To all which questions, not unessential in a Biographic work, mere Conjecture must for most part return answer. Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
In the example of the team the impression may have been attained by inference, but frequently it will have been attained through some unessential, purely personal, determinative characteristic. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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