| 单词 | unseemliness |
| 例句 | And while the line between the bliss of escapism and the unseemliness of denial can be a blurry one, which side this album falls on is not. Be still, the unseemly beating of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Gordon, 61, opens her book with the band’s last show in Brazil — dispatching the unseemliness of their split in clean and quick prose. Kim Gordon is wrong when she says ‘I don’t know what cool is anymore’ 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Everyone noted the unseemliness of the septuagenarian writer’s research prowls through coed dorms and the rottenness of the sex scenes he returned with. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z There’s a point where corporate synergy veers into an area of unseemliness. ‘Peter Pan Live!’ flies clear of Twitter’s crocodile jaws Meanwhile, its young author had featured in a promotional photograph standing naked behind a pile of copies of her book large enough to avoid any serious unseemliness. The death of celebrity historians is much exaggerated 2012-05-27T21:00:01Z But to my eyes, it’s burdened by an “unseemliness of trying too hard,” to borrow a phrase from the essayist Chuck Klosterman in his new book “The Nineties.” Watching ‘Queer as Folk’ but Craving ‘Heartstopper’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z All the unseemliness was white washed for the series finale, in which only happy things transpired: A heart-transplant survival! A Fond Farewell to 'As the World Turns' 2010-09-17T21:23:00Z Even his latest straight job, as a manager of a nearly-deserted mobile phone store, requires a spice of unseemliness to keep him interested. We are all Kim Wexler: “Better Call Saul” and the painful realities of mid-career crisis 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Ergo, it’s lamentable but not surprising that a certain unseemliness surrounded Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s retirement. Opinion | The lessons of an avoidably unseemly Supreme Court retirement 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Manfred’s decision meant the league avoided the unseemliness of losing a season to economic squabbling amid a pandemic, but the unilateral resolution reflected much deeper problems for the sport. Baseball Avoided a Lost Season. But Bigger Threats May Lie Ahead. 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z As a result, they embrace the rhetoric of bipartisanship to avoid the unseemliness of politics. Perspective | Five myths about bipartisanship 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z A principal contributor to public unseemliness, however, is the one who should be bringing the country together: the president of the United States, Donald Trump. Opinion | This country is in need of a miracle 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Opponents said they are concerned about smells, traffic and general unseemliness. Proposed chicken slaughterhouse in Alexandria draws questions, concerns 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The unseemliness of a highway that you find distasteful, but that started as a wagon road through the forest, and for decades has brought people in and out of Seattle. From Aurora to Borealis, it’s still the same drive 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z There’s a degree of unseemliness to attaching a political public-relations angle to a message recognizing veterans. Reality gets in the way of Mike Pence's Veterans Day pitch 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The unseemliness of greed at the top is gone. Making sense of Missouri after the midterms 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Up to now, most have cravenly absorbed all manner of insults, accepted unspeakable unseemliness, and sat by with wan smiles as Trump left them hanging by shifting his positions moment to moment. Opinion | The enablers of Trump’s dangerous presidency 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z So much, in fact, that confirming an identification involves some unseemliness. D.C.’s only endangered species is shy and sightless, but it’s having a moment 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Over that fireplace, a portrait of Washington is cropped at the neck, as if the first president would prefer to look away from the unseemliness. How presidents use their portraits to shape their legacy 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z While some questioned Mr. Lewis’s assertion, many others expressed indignation about Mr. Trump’s outburst, pointing out the unseemliness of attacking a civil rights leader on the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. ‘All Talk,’ ‘No Action,’ Says Trump in Twitter Attack on Civil Rights Icon 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Nor is the unseemliness of the furor in the buildup to England’s appointment with Scotland. Solemnity and Defiance Dominate England-Scotland World Cup Qualifier 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z They recorded their interactions with officials in footage that would later dominate the headlines with its unseemliness. John Good, FBI agent who orchestrated Abscam sting in late ’70s, dies at 80 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Put aside the unseemliness of a billionaire politician trying to deflect criticism by collecting checks for an unimpeachable cause. Donald Trump: The Art of Losing the Deal 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Beyond the unseemliness of an aide moving about with the pomp of a constitutional officer, there is the greater issue of Jarrett’s enabling of Obama’s narcissism and lazy approach to governing. Obama Needs to Shake Up White House After Midterms, Oust Valerie Jarrett 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z In turn it moved beyond merely disappointment over the unseemliness of not allowing women into the Royal and Ancient clubhouse to larger, financial implications. What to take away from the Royal and Ancient vote allowing women members: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Actually, although there is abundant foolishness and unseemliness in U.S. politics, real extremism — measures or movements that menace the Constitution’s architecture of ordered liberty — is rare. George Will: Senate Democrats’ extremism on display Not all the extravagance in the world, not $50 billion, could hide that unseemliness. Sochi Games provided memories of oppressive power and resilient spirits 2014-02-23T19:09:37Z When he started to worry that this might arouse suspicions of unseemliness, he deposited each woman in a cab home and provided the fare. Big City: At the River Café, Assessing the Losses of the Finer Things 2012-11-10T15:37:15Z I should add that a rare and pretty tenderness constantly displayed on her part toward him robbed it of any semblance of unseemliness. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z There are hints of a deeper unseemliness here, though. Sheldon Adelson: The Single-Issue Billionaire 2012-02-21T23:35:15Z Mr. Bradley, however, had suffered enough of this unseemliness. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Such humility, reflecting with heavenly beauty the immediate presence of God, may clothe a mighty man, and hold the center of a mighty scene, without unseemliness, and it wants not intelligence. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z After their fighting days, Frazier matched Ali's past unseemliness with some hurtful remarks of his own. Joe Frazier, Former Heavyweight Boxing Champ, Dies at 67 2011-11-08T05:10:00Z They taught her that there was neither virtue nor vice, but skill or stupidity, calculation or improvidence, decency or unseemliness. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Napier himself was too aware of a Peeping-Tom unseemliness in looking in upon these privacies to stand there watching. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Accepting her view of the gross unseemliness of his mention of the subject, the young fellow's anger gave way to contrition. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z She talked herself into such warmth that she forgot the unseemliness of her being there with him. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The discontent, he said, seems to stem as much from the unseemliness of the legislative process as from the finished product. Health Care Weighs Heavy in Ohio Race 2010-09-11T07:10:00Z She rehearsed to him Cartmell's charges as to his conduct; its idleness, its unseemliness, the disrepute it brought on her and on the Institute. The Great Miss Driver She adopted, however, the Spanish costume, which is black, but not mourning, and no one could accuse her of unseemliness in her attire. Francezka "We have got through all that,—you and I have for ourselves;—but there is a sort of unseemliness in your coming down here to see a poor Quaker's daughter." Marion Fay They demur, on account of the unseemliness of a joyous ceremony at a time, to them, so sad and trying; but it is a last request, and they yield. The Elm Tree Tales "What is the meaning of this unseemliness?" asked he, in well-known tones. Robin Hood He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness. The Brothers Karamazov After all, it was the greatest day in most women’s lives, and she felt the unseemliness of the rite that had made her and Larry man and wife. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter These cases come under the head of unseemliness in so far as they show a lack of sense of where to stop. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals And blessed is he whoever shall not for my outward unseemliness and baseness offend, but go by that into the glory that shines out in such works. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning This strife is urged on by kind neighbors who take sides, and by the "setters" at the store, who fire the litigants on to unseemliness. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators And so, beholding her impatience and unseemliness, he would realize the folly of an ill temper and thus learn by antithesis to curb his own. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Habit blinds people to the unseemliness of a term like this. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The unseemliness was in the mode of discussion, not in the absurdity of the subject. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The utter incongruity and unseemliness of the whole affair from first to last seems incomprehensible at the present day. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion Eck led the debate along by easy stages and endeavored to force Luther into anger and unseemliness. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators All this while, though the past is thus close about you the present is beautiful also, and does not shock you by discord and unseemliness as it will ever do elsewhere. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida In a short time she saw him begin to move his arms; and he arose up, and looked at his person, and became ashamed of the unseemliness of his appearance. The Mabinogion Vol. 1 The unseemliness of the thing was on the minds of all these dozen to twenty gentlemen. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 The unseemliness of thus discussing, in open Court, how far the Attorney-General had proved to be an effective public servant, must be apparent to everybody. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion No doubt the applause of his auditors urged him on to occasional unseemliness. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Will he not with great unseemliness look about him? The Training of a Public Speaker But, it may not be amiss to enumerate some of those things which, by their unseemliness, render the conduct of any person repulsive and disgusting. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister She saw—the unseemliness, the monstrous indelicacy of it!—she saw—the nightcap and shoulders of Admiral Buzza craning out of the next-door window! The Astonishing History of Troy Town "Go and get dressed," he said, looking down at her with as little thought of unseemliness as she herself. Carette of Sark "I hunt but seldom, purely through disgust of their unseemliness." His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality It was held by many to be, if an art at all—why, then, an art of a shocking kind; they could see nothing in it but gross impropriety and unseemliness. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character He was smiling and effusive, talking quickly about nothing, apologising again for the unseemliness of our visit. The Jervaise Comedy And the unseemliness is precisely what we have to account for; that is our enigma. Modern Mythology Here again the noble instinct of the English poet has rectified the aesthetic unseemliness of an ignoble reality. The Age of Shakespeare Rebukes for the unseemliness were copious and stern enough. V. V.'s Eyes Opinions were divided as to whether the House had squelched the Israelitish fop, or whether the fop had tantalized the House into unseemliness. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors The cause of his extreme dissoluteness and unseemliness lies, do you see, not in himself, but somewhere outside in space. The Duel and Other Stories In her present mood she might treat it so as to rouse his own temper—let alone the unseemliness of the discussion it must raise between them. Helena The whole matter savoured of hypocrisy, since the feelings disguised themselves in beautiful sounds, beautiful words, clothing their unseemliness with the noble panoply of poetry and art, masquerading in wholesome garments of innocent good-comradeship. Deadham Hard Episcopal attention was again drawn to its unseemliness, not this time by ascending angels, but by the more prosaic instrumentality of a descending shower. Somerset After a few paces they pulled up, as though suddenly conscious of unseemliness, and resumed their sober pace—and lost the car. Wee Macgreegor Enlists Somehow, in declaring to Grace and to herself the unseemliness of her infatuation, she had grown a convert to its irresistibility. The Woodlanders For a full week after Albert's strangely curtailed obsequies, a gray blanket of woolly humidity hung with July unseemliness over the city in a clinging fog that feathered the throat. Star-Dust Nay, your honour," said Phoebe, "I scorn the old man's words, in the way of seemliness or unseemliness either. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier The sheer unseemliness of such a kinship!—such a juxtaposition. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II In her elegance and self-possession indeed, she seemed to the girl a kind of goddess—heathenishly divine, because of that mixture of unseemliness, but still divine. Eleanor Or if the things in question involve unseemliness to the doer, and this not inconsiderable, or any harm, whereas his opposition will cause some little pain, here he will not agree but will run counter. Ethics Clarendon declined the office of mediator, and even expostulated with Charles upon the unseemliness of the course upon which his Majesty was bent. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Why this din, this blocking of the roadways and general unseemliness? Alone It was of little avail to upbraid him as to the unseemliness of attachment to a girl who, however civilised, was of inferior race and despised colour. Tropic Days We are apt now to dwell on the narrow-mindedness, the unseemliness, of those bickerings of the two sects over the one doctrine on which they differed. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Intellect lured them on into wordy unseemliness; their skill in forensics became a passion, and to embarrass and defeat the antagonist became the thing desired, not the pursuit of truth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers He rose up, looked at his person, and became ashamed of the unseemliness of his appearance. The Junior Classics — Volume 4 In the old romances it must be admitted there is much brawling and heavy drinking, as well as unseemliness of conduct. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country Vitelli pointed out the unseemliness of once again deposing Guidobaldo, whom they had just reseated upon his throne. The Life of Cesare Borgia He was narrow, sarcastic, and shrewd to unseemliness. Two on a Tower Musicians, for instance, often become intoxicated by their own sweet sounds, and are lured on to unseemliness, making much discord in life's symphony. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ‘I wish to avoid unseemliness as much as you.’ A Changed Man; and other tales And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners! The Gambler What a stride is made in the foregoing towards the modern standard, and what intelligence is involved in the perception of the unseemliness of the old style, when others did not perceive it! The Way of All Flesh I'll waive for the moment the unseemliness of making war upon the Dutch, of taking French prisoners, and of provoking the anger of the Governor of Tortuga. Captain Blood It is the penalty of all original thinking that it inspires fools to unseemliness as well as wise men to action. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers She said, 'You of all men should recognise the unseemliness of these proposals. Initials Only He entered, and from the lodge the concierge's voice emerging, muffled from the depths of pillows and blankets, challenged him with an oath directed at the unseemliness of the hour. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel And at last, without any undue haste or unseemliness, the day dawned, the great day, when Banghurst had promised his public—the world in fact—that flying should be finally attained and overcome. Twelve Stories and a Dream Other artists as well as poets should be warned against meanness or unseemliness. The Republic |
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