单词 | velleity |
例句 | Ms. Marcus also errantly dismissed the Constitution’s separation of powers, which entrusts “all legislative powers” to Congress, as a mere velleity that should yield to executive legislation when Congress is divided. Opinion | Separation of powers is not a suggestion 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z There 27 is such a thing as real effective volition, and there is something which strives to be such and fails; this latter we might call “velleity.” The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z They have but the velleity of the eunuch. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z But these velleities are foolish and venially sinful, and often on account of danger they are mortally sinful. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z All were born late enough to breathe the atmosphere of the new poetry young; all had poetical velleities, and a certain amount, if not of originality, of capacity to write poetry. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) She is not a bookmaker of the worst kind; she evidently had wits and literary velleities; and she does illustrate the blind nisus of the time as already indicated. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 And our being results not from velleities but from the real will. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Well, perhaps too many good fairies—good only to the pitch of velleity—buzzed and brushed, like muses, or pseudo-muses, about his brows. On the Stairs His being in the Palmerston cabinet which had been proposed, was, he said, out of the question; but his velleities seemed to lean rather to our joining, which surprised me. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 But in this particular, it was impossible for her to go beyond velleities. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 There will be in this sequence the consciousness of ideas, that of affirmations, that of irresolutions, that of velleities and that of volitions. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil A velleity we might say is the will directed to an end which is either relatively or absolutely impossible; will is that which becomes effective. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z It is a world of rejections and velleities; in spite of outward similarities, a strangely different world from that of half a dozen years ago. Aspects of Literature It started up in corrupt or sordid hearts, and swept all their blind velleities into its purifying flame of passion— "Love is incompatible With falsehood,—purifies, assimilates All other passions to itself." Robert Browning His tendencies, or, say, rather velleities—for they proved to be hardly more—were excellent, but he contrived no mechanism by which to convert them into institutions, and when pressed by gainsayers abandoned them. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference If we were to count up carefully, we should find in the course of our life more velleities than volitions, that is, more evidences of the servitude of our will than of its dominion. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil If I did so, I should be indulging in vain velleities, in which my personality, far from realising itself, would on the contrary be disintegrated and scattered. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z These venerable ladies had admitted that in marrying, even opulently, out of the family, Emma had once more shown velleities of self-sacrifice. The Collectors This theory and the subtleties derived from it, far from characterizing art, represent its contrary: the impotent velleity for art, which cannot slay abstractions and come in contact with life. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic This is so true that one may safely affirm that if Russian patriotism has been sustained by our velleities of action, Russian destructiveness has been encouraged by our velleities of desertion. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference As regards velleities, they are only a very imperfect kind of conditional will. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil But acting thus, I would be indulging in what I have called velleities. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Skill, endurance, and perseverance may almost be called muscular virtues; and fatigue, velleity, caprice, ennui, restlessness, lack of control and poise, muscular faults. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene Will is devoid of intellect, as intellect is deprived of velleity. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur In order to stifle any velleities of resistance on the part of their governments, they were notified that America's economic aid, of which they were in sore need, would depend on their docility. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference I would, if I could: liberet si liceret; and in the case of a velleity, we do not will, properly speaking, to will, but to be able. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Not in practice, doubtless; but here was a question of feeling, a scrutiny of the soul's hidden velleities. Demos And the warrior king, who, like single-minded fathers in general, was ever in the idea that his son had a velleity for deriding and otherwise vexing him, began a severe course of reproof. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance |
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