| 单词 | calculable |
| 例句 | Even in an environment where we don't need to satisfy basic human needs, we insist on imposing calculable value so we can make a buck. Untangling the web with Aleks Krotoski 2011-03-20T00:05:19Z And we are talking about subsidy not investment, because investment implies some kind of immediate calculable return – whereas it's really a much longer, deeper process. Harriet Harman: 'We get the arts' 2013-02-11T20:00:06Z Piranesi lives in a house of many halls, filled with magnificent statues and flooded by curious but calculable tides. Dealmakers and Wanderers: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Because happiness is not always the kind of thing that can be pursued, we should view it, more often than not, as a lucky side effect but not a calculable or calculated end. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z It starts with an encounter that's not calculable but afterwards you realise what it was. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z Ms. Winfrey’s role isn’t calculable even through the obeisance paid by world leaders or the heartfelt tributes from the ordinary people whom she has inspired over the past 25 years. The TV Watch: Showbiz Diva Gives Thanks and Signs Off 2011-05-25T22:00:20Z There are many different types of numbers, some of which you may remember from school: natural, rational, irrational, imaginary, calculable and incalculable numbers. All Natural Numbers Are Either Happy or Sad. Some Are Narcissistic, Too 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Such a concrete, calculable theory is what the subject desperately needs, so that we can compare its outputs with the wealth of theoretical data that are accumulating from scientists. Black Hole Discovery Helps to Explain Quantum Nature of the Cosmos 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z For Belarusians, the shift from gray to black, from autocracy to totalitarianism, was calculable in lives. The Battle for the Mural — and the Future of Belarus 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Council allowed the use of her gender, race and ethnicity to put a calculable, and reduced, value on her life. Opinion | D.C. should change the law to recognize Black children’s lifetime potential 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z This one is perhaps less calculable, though that’s not to say its effects couldn’t be seen on the faces of the Maryland women’s basketball team as the game, an 86-73 loss to Iowa, wore on. Megan Gustafson, foul trouble wear down Maryland in road loss to Iowa 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z The need for new infrastructure to support population growth is readily calculable. Don’t Binge on Bridge-Building 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z It is tempting to think that investing is like this—that the risks are calculable in advance. In investing, as in poker, following rules works best 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Surgery was a definitive intervention at a critical moment in a person’s life, with a clear, calculable, frequently transformative outcome. The Heroism of Incremental Care 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Taxes are calculable on the basis of an arithmetic algorithm. Trump’s Carrier deal could permanently damage American capitalism 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Her husband, a Finnish entrepreneur named Robert Oesterlund, had sworn to a Canadian court that his immediately calculable “net family property” totaled just a few million dollars. How to Hide $400 Million 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z It follows, among many other recognizable flaws in Trump's proposed foreign policy, that the Republican candidate's prescriptions would be calculably injurious to both Israel and the United States. Israel Wouldn't Survive Trump 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z And that’s the dollars we can see: the costs of having sick people in your lives unnecessarily when they could be treated is less calculable. A crisis we can solve: Denying health care to undocumented immigrants is immoral, unjust and un-American 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z In the Netherlands, the desire to make nature orderly and calculable is ever-present, but there is also a wariness, a recognition that the Dutch live in a fragile landscape of extreme contrasts. Rise of the Superpark 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z They'll back straightforward missions, such as delivering cargo to the space station 250 miles above the Earth using mature technologies, but true exploration is, by its nature, without calculable financial return. A Job for NASA 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z The risks were quantified, the cost was well understood, and the return on investment was calculable. Neil deGrasse Tyson: 'The delusion is thinking that SpaceX is going to lead the space frontier' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The less calculable costs, of course, are all psychological. EPA owns up to toxic sludge leak tainting Colorado river 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z That reduction in cost is not only calculable in time and money. From Atoms to Bits To Atoms: Friction On The Path To The Digital Future 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z While not technically an expenditure under the arcane accounting provisions of the NHEA, tax subsidies are calculable and should be reported as a “cost” of the U.S. health system. For The First Time, Government Programs Make Up The Majority Of U.S. Health Spending 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z “Emotionally our respect for Bastian will always be enormous but rationally it’s the case that he’s been injured often recently and therefore couldn’t be a calculable factor in the last two years.” Bastian Schweinsteiger’s exit robs Munich of a Bavarian football god | Raphael Honigstein 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s hard for a consumer to choose between two cellphone companies if a large proportion of the total price will be determined by add-on fees that are only calculable after the fact. Look Back Guarantees 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Shannon’s paper transformed information from a general term to a measurable, calculable quantity. Information Theory: Intellectual Foundation for the Digital Age 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z That improvement will depend in part on maintaining investors’ trust that the risks of Ebola are calculable and manageable, not cause for panic and flight. An Investor Confronts the Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Whether or not money supply is calculable money demand inherently is not. Harry Reid And The Democrats' Strategy To Keep The Senate Majority. 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z GDP isn’t perfect but it is at least calculable, to a tolerable level of accuracy, pretty quickly. The Problems With Using GPI Rather Than GDP 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Actually, the exact number of Apple retail store employees isn’t known, or calculable. Apple Retail: Turn Out The Lights, Open Some Gas Stations 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Music is less data-intensive than video, but the energy requirements are calculable. Depending on how you listen, CDs may be the environmentally sensitive choice 2013-05-27T19:49:03Z Bentham’s “greatest happiness of the greatest number” principle needed a calculable kind of happiness. Kahneman and Bentham's Bucket of Happiness 2013-05-03T23:45:04.717Z For an aid program we need a calculable way for Cyprus to be able to return to the financial markets. Cyprus lawmakers reject bank tax; bailout in disarray 2013-03-20T00:10:39Z But the radiation risk is calculable in a science fiction sort of way. Fear Of Radiation -- It's All In The Noise 2013-01-20T07:46:32Z The value and usefulness of geese are scarcely calculable. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Conceive a society in which results were always calculable: so many men, so much fuel, so much consequent horsepower, and Mr. Hoover would make for it an admirable benevolent dictator; for he is benevolent. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Let me promise however that if I ever do, within any calculable time, address a manifesto to the dim editorial mind, you shall certainly have the benefit of a copy. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Material means are those which are calculable, which are under the control and command of man, and can be tested by human experience. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z No more "abroad" for me within any calculable time, heaven grant! The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z When you get upon him you cut yourself off from all accurately calculable connection with the world. Life's Minor Collisions 2011-11-03T02:00:17.547Z And the exact energy necessary to sustain life is calculable. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Why then deny consciousness to the Matterhorn, because all its actions are calculable and predictable? Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z On this account, energy of motion most naturally exemplifies what we understand by energy; but on the other hand what has been called the energy of position must be regarded as a power distinctly calculable. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z If I and my actions are the products of a converging series of calculable or indetermined forces, are we not compelled to dismiss this conviction as pure myth? Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z But this process is not so regular as the running of the tide, not so much a matter of calculable natural law, and therein is the disappointment and the aggravation. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z No human employment is more free and calculable than the winning of language. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Their economy of labour would be pure gain, and that too large to be presently calculable. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z While the bituminous industry sprawled and overdeveloped, the anthracite combination gradually restricted the production of anthracite to the calculable demand of the market. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z The state of the country is very sad, and any probable termination of the war quite out of calculable distance. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z It is a pleasure to state that money really didn’t matter with Pape; in any calculable probability, never would. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z They are to lead a student to do something every day; to aid him to overcome those tendencies to procrastination, self-confidence, and passive absorption which are the regular and calculable dangers of youth. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The show was turned down by several networks and was finally bought by Reelz, a movie channel occupying reaches of the dial calculable only by advanced math; it premieres April 3. Dramalot 2011-04-03T06:35:00Z And these calculable expenses are only a fraction of the total economic loss. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z Unlike the useless substance of the Indians, the substance of Democritus could offer a calculable, ground for the flux of appearances; for this substance was distributed unequally in the void, and was constantly moving. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z “It’s very likely that it will happen next year because financial risks will then be more calculable.” Porsche Plunges After Saying Share Probe May Delay VW Merger 2011-02-24T10:33:01Z As noted above, the probability of this shift is not calculable, as it is based on a complex of human responses to an unprecedented change in the environment. Dot Earth: On Responding to Imprecise Climate Risks 2011-01-18T17:08:54Z So many million years ago it must have been hotter than now by calculable degrees. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z If the economy is governed by historical happenstance, not timeless laws, and subject to imponderable contingencies, not calculable risks, then the economist may have precious little to say. Economics focus: Twin peaks 2010-04-15T10:52:00Z "A government or organization too timid to undertake calculable risks in pursuit of a proper objective would not be true to itself or to the people it serves." 2010-02-14T05:00:00Z The consequence of the earth's being thus brought to rest would be that it would fall into the sun, and the amount of heat which would be generated by this second collision is also calculable. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. If they cannot, they will remain among the less calculable instruments of production which many of them are to-day. The Acquisitive Society Within an infinitesimal period of time, a period too brief to be calculable, both hemispheres are again acting in unison. A Modern Wizard But on the best grounds of to-day, subject to the well-understood changes due to weather, the bound of the ball is so regular as to be calculable with reasonable certainty by the batsman. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" We form beliefs about individual cases, but we try to get surer grounds for them than the chances as calculable from statistical data. Logic, Inductive and Deductive For they are only so calculable on the basis of the given fundamental characters of the world. Naturalism And Religion I take the number 100 as more calculable. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) A change in the rate of increase in the purchasing power of the coinage metal has a really disturbing effect; a steady and calculable appreciation does not. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy The line BC, representing the equilibrium between monoclinic and liquid sulphur, is thermodynamically calculable; the point B is found to correspond to 131� and 400 atmospheres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" Speculation is the risking of capital in enterprises greater than we can control, or in enterprises whose elements are not at all calculable. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty Nature is not so thoroughly rationalised and calculable as such a point of view would have us believe. Naturalism And Religion But if these restrictions aided her, they also rendered the length of her stay in the school almost calculable. Carmen Ariza Evidently her conscience was cloudless, and yet she had done more harm than was quite calculable. The Benefactress She was not calculable like the women he had known. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists And this he can only do by an abnegation of his personal self, and an application of a system of laws, for the purpose of achieving a certain calculable result, the imparting of certain knowledge. The Rainbow But even if this conclusion were rejected, we presume Mr. Mill would allow that, under the supposed circumstances, the exact magnitude of the minimum of extension would be calculable. The Philosophy of the Conditioned Cheaper, quicker, safer, and more calculable journeys have shrunk space for competing purposes. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production They prefer, if possible, to deal only with calculable causes, and thus to preserve for their "most perfect of sciences" its special prerogative of assured prediction. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Exploration is passing from the highly hazardous stage of individual effort into a systematic business with calculable returns. The Economic Aspect of Geology All depends on what is termed luck, and nearly every Poker player recognises luck, whatever that may be, as an important factor in the game—one they often allow to override calculable chances. Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice Motives, then, have not a determinate and calculable strength, but a power which varies with the previous character of the person to whom they are addressed. A Manual of Moral Philosophy The greatest economies of machine-production are found in industries where the demand is largest, steadiest, and most calculable. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production But what is the guardian to do when the guarded refuse to bear their share of the burden; refuse, indeed, to manifest any calculable interest, except in the way of occasional opposition? McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Its proportion to their number, and the resulting worth of currency, are calculable; but its proportion to their will for labour is not. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing But in astronomy, physics, and chemistry the proposition has a perfectly definite meaning: it signifies that certain aspects of the present, important for science, are calculable as functions of the immediate past. Creative Evolution The performances of other people, however astounding, however eccentric, appeared to a Brodrick as the facilely calculable working of a law from which a Brodrick was exempt. The Creators A Comedy The fiftieth part of a point—it isn't calculable. Picture and Text 1893 So long as a person does what he wishes to do, there is no compulsion, however much his wishes may be calculable by the help of earlier events. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays The probability is greater that I break the rouleau than that I melt the plate; but the increased probability is not calculable. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing The universe became a system of points, the position of which was rigorously determined at each instant by relation to the preceding instant and theoretically calculable for any moment whatever. Creative Evolution After testing both smiles and frowns, and proving that neither mode of treatment possessed any calculable influence, Hester was ultimately compelled to stand aside, and permit the child to be swayed by her own impulses. The Scarlet Letter The sickness or soundness of a consumptive may be a clear and calculable matter. Eugenics and Other Evils I remember no mention of this in any of the astronomical writings, and it is as easily calculable on Earth as it is here. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Hence science deals primarily with calculable places and moments. The Approach to Philosophy The essence of mechanical explanation, in fact, is to regard the future and the past as calculable functions of the present, and thus to claim that all is given. Creative Evolution Very little is known regarding earthquake motions, and there are very few seismic elements which are really calculable in conformity to a mathematical theory of probability. The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906 The happiness or unhappiness of a consumptive is quite another matter, and is not calculable at all. Eugenics and Other Evils Now the advance was no longer calculable or predictable; at any moment a spot apparently beyond danger might be threatened and attacked. Greener Than You Think People in motion are not as reliable and as calculable as brass. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak That definite antecedents bring forth a definite consequent, calculable as a function of them, is what satisfies our intellect. Creative Evolution So great is the disproportion between the calculable and the incalculable elements of his life that he is like a man crouching in the dark, expecting a blow from any quarter. The Moral Economy Is not conduct, dependent as it is on the human will, just the element in man which cannot be explained as the resultant of calculable forces? Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics There had been no appearance of her being, within a calculable period, liberated by the death of her husband. The Path Of Duty They had in the South more land than could be cultivated by the slaves they then owned, or by their natural increase within any calculable period. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 Unquestionably, too, the terms in which Clausius generalized it were mathematical, and a calculable magnitude, "entropy," was, in fact, the final conception to which he was led. Creative Evolution And who worked it into mathematical form and made it calculable, and therefore useful? Islands of Space "History shows that men's actions are governed by some kind of calculable law." A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation The virtues he defended so rigorously did not exist as a rule in calculable or practical form, since they did nothing objective. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History What, if anything, is there in the present situation that visibly makes for a realisation of these necessary terms within the calculable future? An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation In which country, in which time, was it hitherto that man’s history, or the history of any man, went on by calculated or calculable “Motives”? Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History That day, however, has not yet dawned, nor is the interim before its arrival calculable. The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior Much cheer was taken from the fact that so far as loss of life was concerned it was not so great as had been feared, though no exact estimates were yet calculable. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Hence to give a margin of safety to cover contingencies not calculable, an excess of material must be provided. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" What has happened is that a superior force has been brought into play—another force whose action is just as regular and calculable as that of gravity. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era An interesting example in the streets of Berlin is the difference between the perfection of the street-cleaning, which deals with the inanimate and with accurately calculable factors, and the governing of the street traffic. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Men, he thought, are always the same, governed by calculable motives of self-interest. The Age of the Reformation To German poetry there is a known, fixed, calculable limit. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg His conduct is uniform and consistent; the result of known and ascertainable causes—causes calculable and predicable in their consequences, as the statistics of crime have incontestibly established. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges It is lifted to another plane, the supermechanical plane; it behaves in a new way; its movements from being calculable become incalculable. The Breath of Life But if these habits are constant and calculable we call the vitality of them mechanical. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion No, from the expected, or to be expected, inevitable, visible, calculable, uninterrupted increase of weakness, which none need fail to observe. Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not It is not even a question of patience, since time has no longer any meaning for us, for it is not a matter of any calculable duration. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 All interactions, being with its own kind, were reciprocal and obedient to a single set of calculable laws. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Could this relinquishment be confined to the two contracting parties alone, its effect would be calculable. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Apart from miraculous intervention, therefore, the assumption seems to be inevitable that the intermediate processes are calculable too, and compounded out of the others. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion So that this irregularity is now perfectly calculable. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 The pecuniary distresses of France produced this year a measure, of which there had been no example for near two centuries; and the consequences of which, good and evil, are not yet calculable. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 The monkey-tax thus collected is quite a calculable percentage of the crop, and few taxes are more regularly paid. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 See how many times this occurrence happens in that space of time and you have reached a calculable dividend. The Art of Public Speaking The most inclusive movements known to us in nature, the astronomical, are calculable, and so are the most minute and pervasive processes, the chemical. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion No decent, calculable, consoled dying; no passing to rest like that of the aged burghers of Nuremberg town. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin Finally, there was a masterly provision made for all the concentrations to condense into one great mass at the crucial point off Ushant before by any calculable chance a hostile mass could gather there. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy If we observe the fluctuation of the thermometer by the side of the mortality of the nation at large, no calculable relationship seems, at first sight, to be traceable between the one and the other. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 The calculable, to say nothing of the unascertained, elements of the question might well cause responsible statesmen to be satisfied with the feasible. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference But the expectation would show his inexperience, and his ignorance of the fact that Art, unlike Science, declines to be bound by any calculable laws whatsoever. The English Novel But, he said, the whole thing was as calculable as any successful deal on the Stock Exchange. The Belfry In doing this his first care was to obtain a film of variable and calculable depth. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 Antonyms: disesteem, aversion, odium, antipathy, unpopularity. estimable, a. computable, calculable; meritorious, worthy, excellent. Putnam's Word Book For the first time in a singularly calculable life he had become an object of genuine curiosity. The Collectors At this point it is important to note an economic phenomenon which appears at first sight accidental, but which, on examination, is found to spring from calculable political causes. The Historic Thames I put it to him that Viola's movements were not always exactly calculable. The Belfry As for Browning, the fault is certainly great, and the disadvantage scarcely calculable, it is so great. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) But Morality, the only way of being End-in-self, and legislating member in the Realm of Ends, has an intrinsic Worth or Dignity, calculable in nothing else. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics No matter how many hundreds of millions of miles he may pierce into space, he has still to do with the visible and calculable. Essays Æsthetical Thus, as the President said, the question became calculable mathematically, like horse-power in a mechanical problem. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II The calculable effect on labor psychology may have revolutionary significance. Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators No, from the unexpected, or to be expected, inevitable, visible, calculable, uninterrupted increase of weakness, which none need fail to observe. Notes on Nursing What It Is, and What It Is Not Amongst it was a novel and hardly calculable element, the Labour Members. The Long White Cloud It must therefore be a benefit to the community, if this element of unavoidable chance cannot be reduced as a whole, at least to regularize it and make it exactly calculable for any individual. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II Of these alternatives, poisoning is much more exact, more calculable in its effect and more under control. The Mystery of 31 New Inn The calculable effect of the appeal to capital to assume the responsibility is in the long run of passing importance, as under the present business arrangement that is the position capital occupies. Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators Everything that is is the ordered and calculable result of environment. Sacred and Profane Love Every foot of soil is with us worked up: nearly every movement of the social machine is calculable. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Constant efforts are made by insurance companies to guard against these "moral risks," the least calculable of any. Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II It is of in calculable value in another way. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War After testing both smiles and frowns, and proving that neither mode of treatment possessed any calculable influence, Hester was ultimately compelled to stand aside and permit the child to be swayed by her own impulses. The Scarlet Letter We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course. Walden He could not have defined and explained the nature of his great love, nor have made up the sum of it by the addition of his calculable pleasures. Roderick Hudson He took a wife, as we have seen, to adorn the remaining quadrant of his course, and be a little moon that would cause hardly a calculable perturbation. Middlemarch The reaction against his Methodist fit had lasted long, had developed a certain contempt for sentiment, a certain love for all sharp, dry, calculable things, and for the tone of irony in particular. The History of David Grieve Brookenham just traceably took this in, but to what profit was not calculable. The Awkward Age Had all these matters been left to accident, the chances against the uniformity which we find would have been, though calculable, inconceivably great. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Manufacturers no longer produce for a small known market, the fluctuations of which are slight, and easily calculable. Problems of Poverty Adj. numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable, commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Words are not llke iron and wood, coal and water, invariable in their properties, calculable in their effects. The Principles of Success in Literature Only I see her here—though on his wish of course—handling things quite as if they were her own and paying him a visit without, apparently, any calculable end. The Awkward Age Ours never equivocates; we know its answer beforehand, for the public mind is compounded of prejudices, fears, herd instincts, youthful hatred of novelty, all easily calculable. Nonsenseorship The service of Humanity is the sentiment of a refined mind conversant with history; within no calculable time is it likely to overrule the passions and direct the conduct of the mass. Lectures and Essays The consequences of self-sacrifice can never be certain, foreseen, calculable. The Nature of Goodness Then there is the false idea that all causality is mechanistic and that there is nothing in the universe which is not mathematically calculable. Bergson and His Philosophy Naves and transepts were not often failures; facades and even towers and fleches are invariably more or less successful because they are more or less balanced, mathematical, calculable products of reason and thought. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres But even this amount is calculable, for it is always nearly the same. Lombard Street : a description of the money market For the bulk of mankind the humanity worshippers point of view seems unattainable at least within any calculable time. Lectures and Essays Of course the calculable quality of the weather helps in this possibility. The Native Son Napoleon soon found that there is a gulf measurable by no calculable distance between existence as the dominating force of a family and life as a new boy at a boarding- school. Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica He gave no sign of his own in calculable relief, nor did he give to Cæsar the things which were Cæsar’s. Notes of a War Correspondent Even the masters' lessons, coming in from outside and making a kind of framework of appointments over the otherwise fortuitously occupied days, were, she soon found, not always securely calculable. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 Nobody was expected to finish a rug within a calculable period, and the wools of the beginning became faded and historical before the end was reached. The Trumpet-Major But lo! now, in opposition to all calculable probability, some benefit appeared to be attached to the name of David Faux. Brother Jacob But there is something in the current that runs through my veins that cries out against any form of the calculable. Strictly business: more stories of the four million Swayed by the fleeting impulses of the hour, they have only one persistent, calculable motive on which reliance can always be placed—that motive is vanity; you are always sure of them there. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English But she is the sole heiress of a gouty old fellow, some London brewer, who within a calculable time will leave her a fortune equal at least to what the sweet creature has already. The Marriage Contract Suffering brewed in temporal or calculable measure tastes not as this suffering tasted.” Hearts of Controversy Frank Saltram's channel, however, was essentially not calculable, and there was no knowing what disastrous floods might have ensued. The Coxon Fund In which country, in which time, was it hitherto that man's history, or the history of any man, went on by calculated or calculable 'Motives'? Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh |
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