| 单词 | definable |
| 例句 | All I could see in his slightly lopsided face were his two very bright eyes, which were examining me closely without betraying any definable emotion. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z He saw concern and something less easily definable in Hermione’s expression. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet there was something deeper than these changes, and less definable, that frightened me. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The other clouds were, definably, volumes, objects in the sky. When my daughter was diagnosed 2014-02-12T00:00:00Z The mysticism of “Yellowjackets” is still more theoretical than definable at this point, but in both the past and the present, we appear to be inching toward a revelation. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Dig In 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “It’s not definable in our current vocabulary,” Moore said. Theater uses its creativity to defy pandemic and stage shows 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Each lesson is a specific learning experience with definable goals and objectives. Eva: transgender voice-training app helps women and men talk the talk 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Even Stone indirectly acknowledges the film's absence of definable purpose. 'Savages': Oliver Stone's hazy tale of drugs, thugs, free love 2012-07-03T23:30:05Z It merged sampled beats, a definably British rap style and a stirring soul vocal into a radical musical collage that resonates throughout pop music to this day. Massive Attack meet Adam Curtis: the unlikely double act 2013-06-29T23:05:27Z What people have loved about it is, there are no rules or definable walls that hold “Justified.” They Dug Coal Together: Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins Look Back on 'Justified' 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z All of these things are knowable and definable and yet obscured and opaque. Modern Love: Downloadable. Unsustainable, Too. 2011-08-11T18:57:16Z At the centre of the performance is the elusive notion of Gobo, a concept definable only by its absence. Gobo. Digital Glossary ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:54Z We are uncomfortable with mothers who are not easily definable, with good mothers who sometimes think bad thoughts and even do bad things. When Mothers Bully Back 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Refreshingly, though, the characters' attitudes don't break along easily definable liberal/conservative or bigoted/non-bigoted lines. "Southland": TV's best cop show survives -- and thrives 2011-03-01T15:02:00Z Because there are so many typefaces, there have been many attempts to classify them into definable groups. True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z Rather, highly rehearsed and technically precise performances of the sort seen in “Fences” mesh with critics’ own familiar technique, the habit and ease of evaluating work in terms of definable standards. What “Fences” Misses About Adapting Plays for the Screen 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Magic Man: A Q&A with Burt Wonderstone‘s Steve Carell 2013-03-08T13:00:42Z "He had a gift for melody and lyrics that was very definable," Warwick said. Country singer Claude King dies at 90 2013-03-07T19:37:10Z He's one of the most imaginative, agenda-setting designers on the planet, but his innovations are so diverse and plentiful, he's never acquired an easily definable signature style. Nouvel vogue 2010-03-24T16:18:00Z It was not ingratiating, nor neo-Classical in the sense of offering hummable tunes in a definable style, but it was pleasing to the ear. NSO, Barto show that “pleasing new German concerto” is not an oxymoron in new Rihm work 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Life on the piers, with its definable demographic and culture of confinement, was not so different from that on board a ship, and Mr. Baltrop viewed it both from afar and up close. He Captured a Clandestine Gay Culture Amid the Derelict Piers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Looking towards God, in the complete absence of any definable divine action or manifestation, is no longer possible. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Art was changing too, though seldom in easily definable ways. Art Review: Emerald Deities of Fervor and Flux 2010-08-26T22:33:00Z That is, women express “wealth, status, family, tribe” through their bearing and ornamentation, which are “all languages definable as art.” Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z His work has a deadpan surrealist undertone and a definable signature. Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – review 2012-07-14T23:06:08Z Is it possible to divide the workload in any definable way? Boards of Canada: 'We've become a lot more nihilistic over the years' 2013-06-06T17:53:57Z Amid the humour – and simmering anger – a definable English eccentricity still seems to be the order of the day. Simon Roberts puts political England in the frame 2010-04-12T15:49:00Z Alex Winter tweeted that, “Crew should never be unsafe on set and when they are there is always a clearly definable reason why.” EXPLAINER: Guns on movie sets: How does that work? 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z "In the last month or two there's been a definable slot for this kind of movie." 'The Purge' scares off 'Fast & Furious' crew to take box office lead 2013-06-09T17:25:26Z One of the things Sundance has long made clear is that there is no single, easily definable festival. At Sundance, Films Filled With Fury, Propelled by Outsiders 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Yet the man and his worldview are still definable presences, in the United States and around the world. Review: PBS’s ‘Walt Disney’ Explores a Complex Legacy 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s all very dramatically juicy and firmly places Scruggs and her techniques in an easily definable amoral zone but it’s an encounter that remains entirely unverified. 'Crass and contemptible': is Clint Eastwood's new movie built on a lie? 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z And in 2010 the historical center’s board also came up with a credo: “We believe in a spirit, definable and intellectually real, called ‘the Spirit of the American West.’ Critic's Notebook: Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming 2012-08-03T19:07:26Z And yet, and yet — these performers keep swimming upstream, toward something less easily definable. Theater Review: ‘Basilica,’ by Mando Alvarado, at the Cherry Lane Theater 2013-05-24T02:00:01Z What sets Mr. Adams’s seething, shimmering, preternaturally patient sound forces apart is their absence of a definable human anchor. Musical Travel Companions for a Year of Going Nowhere 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z In the immediate days after the killings, the bags were bigger; the remains, more definable. Inside the Israeli lab 'reassembling and reconnecting' the mangled bodies of the dead 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z If the Mariners actually have a capable and effective lefty in the bullpen, that might be the closest thing to a definable role. Mailbag: Looking at Mariners’ bullpen, position battles and more from spring training 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Instructure’s report noted that 68% of students responding to this year’s survey said they consider having definable skills more essential to success than course titles or a degree. College students want better ‘return on investment’ coming out of COVID, survey finds 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z “What you don't get from this very quantifiable, very definable taxonomy of mineral species is context,” says Shaunna Morrison, a mineralogist and planetary scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. New Classification Reveals Just How Many Ways Minerals Form 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z We are accustomed to treating things as distinct, definable entities, and we think of ourselves in the same terms. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Point source pollution can be attributed to a single, definable source, while nonpoint source pollution is from multiple dispersed sources. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Players should bet large both with their very best hands and, as bluffs, with some definable percentage of their very worst hands. How A.I. Conquered Poker 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z At least so far, prosecutors appear to be building their cases from the bottom up, starting with those they can accuse of definable crimes and looking for potential links to others. Prosecutors Move Quickly on Jan. 6 Cases, but Big Questions Remain 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Tech is more like a coat of new paint on everything than a definable set of products or industries. Tech Won. Now What? 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The department appears to be building its cases from the ground up, starting with those it can accuse of definable crimes and looking for potential links to others. Jan. 6 Committee Weighs Possibility of Criminal Referrals 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z “There is no objectively definable market for authors of anticipated top-selling books.” Penguin Random House Defends Effort to Buy Simon & Schuster 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Actor Alex Winter tweeted that, "Crew should never be unsafe on set and when they are there is always a clearly definable reason why." Alec Baldwin's fatal prop gun shooting: Experts weigh in on how accident happened 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z "Crew should never be unsafe on set and when they are there is always a clearly definable reason why." Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ shooting accident: Hollywood mourns Halyna Hutchins 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z And so, without a readily definable enemy who could be seen and shot and killed and defeated, which is what wars are usually for, lies were substituted. 9/11 and the birth of the Big Lie 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z “Ron paints in very definable brushstrokes, and every doubt in the customer’s mind is wiped away.” Ron Popeil, Inventor and Ubiquitous Infomercial Pitchman, Dies at 86 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z That's how you get people to donate: Make the enemy clearly visible and easily definable. How evangelicals abandoned Christianity — and became "conservatives" instead 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z The massacre is a definable event and we can figure out who these people are. His book helped expose Tulsa's massacre of Black citizens. Now he's helping find their graves 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z But there is no way to breach it; the relationship between perception and reality is not categorical or even definable, which is one of the messages of the film. Column: 'Malcolm & Marie' filmmaker Sam Levinson wanted to start a conversation. Just not this one 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s not even a definable achievement so much as an arbitrary crowning. Are Sounders approaching dynasty status on eve of MLS Cup? ‘We’re Storm chasers,’ Brian Schmetzer says 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z The widely held belief is that Trump will take advantage, both in policy and governing ways, and in areas more definable as politics, culture and personal ethics. Get ready for Donald Trump’s next act — "vindication and attack" 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z I proceed from some open and elusive subconscious formlessness roughly called “me”, definable only by being nothing and nowhere, just the silence in which shapes move. ‘It’s as if I’m falling from a 50-storey building’: a year without sleep 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z I think this is why I try to move away from characters with a definable gender or race. Making weird go viral with Hi Stranger creator Kirsten Lepore 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The game cast and sharp design keep us in the eternal present, which was Stein’s theatrical goal in jettisoning all that we’ve come to expect from theater: definable character, linear dialogue and developing plot. Theater in L.A. this week: 'Lady Day,' 'Little Shop' and more 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z “When you win, you have a different air about you, a different confidence and I’m definably feeling that part of it,” Callaway said. Mets call-up takes 112-mile Uber to stadium then belts home run 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It may be tempting to lump hatred into an easily definable category such as white supremacists, but that is false, misleading, and in fact useless in making any attempt to prevent or eradicate such behavior. Attacks by White Extremists Are Growing. So Are Their Connections. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z What looks at first like a solid, well-carpentered exercise in downbeat indie realism ends up, by dint of its unexpected tonal and temporal leaps and sudden formal ruptures, in less easily definable territory. Review: In the deeply moving ‘Diane,’ Mary Kay Place gives the performance of her career 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z But the methods to ensure public health are well established, and should be calibrated to achieve a scientifically definable public good. Opinion | Public health shouldn’t be invasive. Vaccination skeptics make that harder. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z This terrain is explored in greater depth in less easily definable films like Shivers, Cemetery Man and It Follows. Spawn of the dead: a history of strange zombie movie mashups 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “God is not definable. All human language about God is inadequate and to some degree metaphorical.” Not in His name: God is gender-neutral, says archbishop of Canterbury 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But one of the most distinct, definable, and pressing has been my obsession with hair loss. Is the Age-Old Quest for a Baldness Cure Reaching Its End? 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The 45th president has proved, again and again, that he is a sui generis character whose appeal is predicated more on his own colossal selfhood than on any definable set of ideas or positions. The Risky Business of Speaking for President Trump 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z ARLINGTON, Texas — The player with a definable role and obvious value provided to the team was packing his bags and readying himself to join the Tacoma Rainiers in Fresno. Ichiro remains on the roster as Mariners option Guillermo Heredia to Class AAA Tacoma 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z According to Bohr, “Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties on the quantum theory being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems.” Review | How quantum mechanics defies our sense of logic 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Notes on Camp was structured as a series of jottings rather than a formal essay because camp is a sensibility – a way of seeing – rather than a tightly definable idea. Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The cello melody that emerges with falling gestures is instantly memorable but not easily definable. Esa-Pekka Salonen's Cello Concerto soars on Cloud Nine 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z “Ranching’s realm is really, then, definable as being where most people are absent.” Fear of the Federal Government in the Ranchlands of Oregon 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The trust has been overshadowed by his urge to interfere in politics, to slag off doctors and architects and to provide, in some less definable, though reliably nonsensical, way, de haut en bas spiritual instruction. Prince Harry a breath of fresh air? No, a chip off the old block | Catherine Bennett 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z Those that survive have typically been scooped up by a new guard of companies that aren’t properly definable as publishers at all. America's 'news deserts': the death of the great alt-weeklies 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Something less definable anchors these men and their spouses to this Mekong tributary. In Mekong Delta backwaters, Vietnam vets find peace in a town that war destroyed 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z They wanted a top-drawer manager with a record of success and a definable style. Embattled Klopp joins Wenger under microscope as Liverpool and Arsenal collide | Paul Wilson 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z How does foreign assistance serve definable American interests? Perspective | ‘America first’ shouldn’t mean cutting foreign aid 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z But she was also overcome by something less definable. Young Hancock woman gets life-saving heart transplant 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z But as the start-up world continues to move away from easily definable consumer or corporate products and services, investors have had to take less-charted paths. Venture Capital Firm Navigates Uncharted Course to Success 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Both Verstegen and Hamilton said pool training also brings something else, something less definable to a workout. Are pool workouts the next big thing? Swimwear giant Speedo is working on it 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Choices are outlined by a programmer; paths of options are created that are either followed or not, based on definable input. Deep learning is creating computer systems we don’t fully understand 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z A related unintended consequence is the notion that someone can be too traumatized to be part of activism to create change--that there is some concrete, definable healing process one must "complete" first. The Forced Heroism of the ‘Survivor’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Consider the group grandfathers of the Coachella sound — raucous, upbeat and with a complete disinterest in easily definable genre borders. LCD Soundsystem reunites, giving nods to Bowie and Guns N' Roses, plus a dose of self-depreciation 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z This year’s work is very much about the presence of a definable person, rendered literally. The National Portrait Gallery announces winners of the Outwin 2016 Competition 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Are the obsolete snowflake decorations of today’s un-wintery, wet, warm Christmas now merely a race memory of the days when we had definable seasons, rather than just climatic blandness interrupted by catastrophes? Out of the mouths of babes, real religious truth | Stewart Lee 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z They see a muddle of coercion, old magical ideas, occasional experiment, hushed-up failures—all coming together in a social practice that gets results but rarely follows a definable logic. Is Science Kind of a Scam? 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Carson added that he would attach definable spending cuts to any increase. Ben Carson: I would 'love' to see abortion ruling overturned 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z In “The Physicist and the Philosopher,” Canales recounts how Bergson challenged Einstein’s theories, arguing that time is not a fourth dimension definable by scientists but a “vital impulse,” the source of creativity. For an Einstein anniversary, some new knowledge 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z It is now definably Stephen Shore’s America, though it nods to Robert Frank’s and, even more so, to Walker Evans’s America. Shady character: how Stephen Shore taught America to see in living colour 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z At those tops, rallies end when prices struggle to move higher and then begin breaking to definably lower levels over broad segments of the market. Now Is Not The Time To Get Scared About Stock Exposure 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z They happened, in most cases, for reasons that were definable and observable. Triple Crown drought is remarkable, but not unexplainable 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z “They’ve definably made a splash, and obviously Wayne’s a really big name to lead the charge.” US motorcycle racing seeks to rebuild pipeline to top flight 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z After all, the education of our youth is a definable piece of merchandise we are producing. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Whatever your end goals may be, try to break them down into easily definable and measurable objectives. SalesforceVoice: Template For Success: 5 Keys to Creating A Winning Social Media Plan 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z These players drove down to smaller market capitalization properties not readily definable and carrying great volatility. Independent Money Pools Losing Faith In America 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z And algal blooms aren’t like climate change -- though, importantly, they’re exacerbated by it: they are near-term and ugly, comparatively immediate consequences of definable actions that everyday citizens can see without a microscope or binoculars. Will the green goop in Toledo's water be the end of GOP anti-environmentalism? 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The federal initiative is a good start, and the focus on Washington aerospace is understandable because it is a highly concentrated, easily definable group of companies. Editorial: A federal nod for Washington’s aerospace industry 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Based on the bottom-line goals of the vast majority of professionals, business owners, and senior corporate executives, the way my associates and I conceptualize coaching is very precise, straightforward, and, therefore, easily definable: What Is Success Coaching? 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z If the Mets appear to have a definable strategy, it is to build around pitching. Looking Adrift at Citi Field, Mets Keep Their Wallet Closed 2014-03-28T03:00:44Z It’s less important what the project actually is, and most important that it is something that is definable, achievable and mutually agreeable. Role Reversal as an IT/Business Bridge Builder 2013-09-30T18:33:00Z "The challenge will be how to translate the high expectations into something that's definable and deliverable," Mr. Huntsman said. Stakes Are High in U.S.-China Summit 2013-06-07T23:41:46Z With Tearaway, the player is more of a benevolent god than a gamer; a distant yet definable presence in the virtual environment. Tearaway – PS Vita preview 2013-01-31T15:38:39Z I was surprised, after hearing Young's tales of life-destroying cases of fantasy sports addiction, to learn that Internet addiction hasn't made the cut as an official disorder in psychology's universe of definable problems. The Fifth Down: When Fantasy Football Becomes an Addiction 2012-11-27T11:04:09Z This is the Facebook mindset, the Mark Zuckerberg mindset – that relationships are a commodity as rigidly definable as any other other business facet. Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus on the future of the company: part one 2012-08-01T09:05:49Z One of the plus points about Windows Phone for users is that Metro user interface: definably different from iOS and Android, but stylish and usable. Windows Phone app development: five firms give their experiences 2012-06-18T14:41:21Z Where we can pick out a single definable characteristic which acts as a unit in heredity, for greater accuracy we term it a unit-character. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The pinnacles resembled a topsy-turvy system of colossal icicles, icicles thrust upwards from a common icy mass, the whole resting on a definable floor. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Practice and improvement are no longer vague generalities, but concern changes which are definable and measurable by standard tests and scales. The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z At intervals deep inspiration, as if the chest were laboring under an oppression hardly definable. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Wherefore evolution is definable as the process of the individuation of Deity in and through Humanity. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z In the first place it is recognized that as regards the definable characters which separate individuals of the same species, offspring may inherit equally from either parent. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z That partnership is closely definable in terms of character. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z In conversation with Gurney, the narrator explained that the vision—though giving an impression of externality and seen, as he believes, with open eyes—was not definably located in space. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z Hallucinations occur in a large, but not accurately definable, proportion of all cases of mental disease proper. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z One of the actual penalties of this is that so few of such ancient importances remain definable or presentable. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z A dog-fancier would have said that there was some scarcely definable resemblance to the bull-dog in the expression of his eyes. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z The 'Spiritual Nature,' in Green's terminology, meant a 'not-natural' nature, and 'not-natural' in turn meant a nature that is not definable in mechanical or biological terms. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z The Moors have left their impress, it is true, in a scarcely definable way on the city, the physiognomy of which is more Oriental than that of Granada, a later seat of Mohammedan empire. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Yet, Hamilton says, they are unknown and definable. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z It emphasized Mind as a formative force behind all definable contents or acts of consciousness—as that which makes it possible to speak of anything as known. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z For not to speak of the seasonal changes so clearly definable, in Japan, the cyclonic storms, the main cause of the daily climatic changes, occur very frequently. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z That activity ranged from looking for the presence of particular organizations, like gangs or terrorist groups with definable characteristics, to evaluating other potential vulnerabilities, like a university with classified research and many foreign students. F.B.I. Focusing on Security Over Ordinary Crime 2011-08-24T02:08:39Z The function is definable by means of the domain of the argument and the rule of calculation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Either the terms infinite and absolute are known terms and definable, or they are unknown terms and undefinable. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z It is therefore assumed that the atoms are to have no qualities except those which are definable in terms of space. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z The idea that it is genetically definable and distinct is just irresponsible.” Race reemerges in debate over ?personalized medicine? 2011-08-01T02:26:00Z "A religious creed is definable as a theory of original causation." The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z It possesses no definable tint of color, is not acted upon by either nitric or muriatic acids, and appears to be an aggregation of minute crystals of quartz. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Divesting this conception of all superfluities, and reducing it to its most abstract shape, we see that Life is definable as the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z There was neither sorrow, joy, love, hatred, revenge, hope, despair, nor any other definable emotion. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z The atmosphere in its summer stillness was wondrously clear, all objects being sharply definable up to an incredible distance. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z Much confusion has crept into the reasoning on this subject from the idea that withdrawal from circulation is a definable state, whereas it is a gradated state, and indefinable. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z Originally a derisive diminutive, the usage of the studios has endowed this monosyllable with a significance all its own, not readily definable. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z "The pyschical life"—the life of the soul, "the immortal spark of fire,"—and the physical life "are equally definable as the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations." Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z "There still is no indication of a definable source," Burger told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, adding it was too early to say that a plateau of new cases had been reached. Russia bans EU vegetables over E.coli, EU protests 2011-06-02T10:00:31Z A cloud had swept suddenly over my soul, a presentiment scarcely defined or definable was in my thoughts, a demon seemed to whisper in my ears: It is not that. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Mr. Boriskin, the artistic and executive director of Copland House, said Mr. Danielpour’s score had “hints of jazz” and an “urban, spiky energy that is definably American.” | Westchester: Forging a Connection in Songs of Women 2011-03-20T04:15:04Z "There are definable moments that happen within a season," Schmid said. Cohesive core of Sounders FC players, coaches eyeing MLS Cup run 2011-03-14T00:35:04Z Huge drifts of snow; no road definable; never a bird that chirped, never a leaf that stirred; all cold and white, without pulsation, without breath, dead,--the whole earth a lovely stark corpse. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z That ambitious, conscientious, and comprehensive piece of work is of course less properly definable as a tragedy than by the old Shakespearean term of a chronicle history. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z These gone, I became inspired by a slight, scarcely definable, pleasure—like the distant re-dawning of a hope that has been for a time extinguished. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z The money-unit is not definable as a quantity of metal, of given fineness, but rather is a "nominal" thing, present monetary standards being defined by legal proclamation in terms of past standards. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z If momentum is indeed a definable element in a Test series then it now rests in Australian hands. Rampant Australia crush England to square the series 2010-12-19T09:59:31Z She could not cry; she felt no definable pain, only a terrible heaviness in her limbs, and a weight upon her heart that almost choked her. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Like most people, Lynch isn't an easily definable character, but if he performs well in Seattle, he may find this to be a place he can settle down and relax. Theme Song: Pondering the right music for ... Marshawn Lynch 2010-10-21T21:52:00Z The system works on people staying in one definable place. Credit agencies are no way to catch benefit cheats 2010-08-10T15:00:00Z The Knicks have not had a winning record in nine years and have no definable personality. Mikhail Prokhorov Is White Knight for Nets 2010-04-27T01:28:00Z What used to be a strict division between client and server is no longer so easily definable. Computing Gets Flexible 2010-04-26T10:00:00Z The benefits of it are not definable apart from an evenly based league in which any one team can beat any other on a given day. Tigers blame salary cap as Vesty departs 2010-04-06T18:23:00Z And do you expect to be cured of a disease which is produced by certain definable causes, like this, and yet be permitted to go on in the same way you have long gone? Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician You will find different people answering any of these questions with Yes or No. But it cannot be both Yes and No. There must be a definable Right or Wrong upon all these issues. The Salvaging Of Civilisation It seemed to Michael that Barnes' manner changed in some scarcely definable way when he made this announcement. Sinister Street, vol. 2 When she turned around he didn't try to hold her, skating swiftly back at her side, aware of a danger in such solitude; charging himself with a scarcely definable disloyalty to his conception of Sylvia. The Guarded Heights Every truth is definable with reference to somebody's intentions, actions, and successes or failures. The Sources Of Religious Insight The lamp had evidently been extinguished again, for he saw in the uncertain radiance of the embers a thing, scarcely definable as human, prone beyond the threshold. The Gray Mask In the Middle Kingdom it is well 64 characterized, and in its most cursive form seems hardly to retain any definable trace of the original hieroglyphic pictures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" It might have been called music, but there was no definable melody or beat. Adolescents Only Successive judicial decisions, upon this clause, without any special legislation, had abolished slavery there; so that the exact period of its actual termination is not easily definable. Discussion on American Slavery Moreover, theory shows that there is a lower as well as an upper limit to their magnitude, and that it is only between certain definable limits of magnitude that the force acts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" It was no definable alteration in mind or body, yet a keener observer than the captain might have suspected a readjustment of both to suit some possible new relation. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. It is a certain definable quantity of wealth, and that quantity of wealth the producers of the ore should get for themselves. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy The feelings of each resident were in some cases quite defined or definable; as for instance Dave's and Dolly's. When Ghost Meets Ghost But the arch head has a natural organism, which separates its ornament into distinct families, broadly definable. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Something lies at the back of my brain—a dull anxiety, hardly definable to myself. An Ocean Tramp It was more than friendship, more than brotherly care, and yet it was definably less than that of the lover. Money Magic A Novel There are influences which bring the various charges of railroads within a certain definable distance of normal standards. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy This something—call it nervous fluid, nervous power, vital energy, life-force, or anything else that you will—is a perfectly understood, if not a definable thing. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 These resolutions were arrived at by apprehension, not by any definable process of reasoning. A Singer from the Sea It seems to me, in fact, that the present state of mind—if we look to men's real thoughts and actions, not to their conventional phrases—is easily definable. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Infection is applied to diseases produced by no known or definable influence of one person upon another, but where common climatic, malarious, or other wide-spread conditions are believed to be chiefly instrumental. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions It is not always true that a man's character is indicated by his daily habits, nor that his intellectual tendency is definable by the qualities of his temper or by his personal tastes. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome In intellect and character, differences of kind between one individual and another turn out to be definable, if defined at all, as compound differences of degree. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It rests not upon scepticism, but upon sound and definable principles. On Calvinism It followed that the function of government was limited and definable. Liberalism Treason is a specific form of treachery of a subject to the government to which he owes allegiance, and is definable and punishable at law. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Perhaps the reason is that the quality of poetry is more definite, if not more definable, than that of prose fiction, or else that poets are more really sure of themselves. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century His experience of life induced rules of conduct, and these, with the concurrence of some hardly definable instincts, became imperative for 263him—the conception involved in the word 'ought' gradually took shape. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Matter has in itself no actual or definable existence. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy If God is, we stand in definable relations to Him, and those relations are made definite through Christianity. A Manual of Moral Philosophy But there is also noticeable in them a separate and hardly definable influence which circumscribes their class even more distinctly. A History of Elizabethan Literature Much confusion has crept into the reasoning on this subject from the idea that the withdrawal from circulation is a definable state, whereas it is a graduated state, and indefinable. 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 when other young women, recognizing some not easily definable charm in this new-comer into London life, tried to copy the effect alluded to, it was found to be less imitable than it looked. The Convert Beneath the qualitative becoming, beneath the evolutionary becoming, beneath the extensive becoming, the mind must seek that which defies change, the definable quality, the form or essence, the end. Creative Evolution The last consummation of the year now passing over us is definable as Three Bags; a big bag for the body, two small bags for the arms, and by way of collar a hem! Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. From a good fresh-water peat we obtain, by this treatment, a yellow liquid, more or less deep in tint, the taste of which is very slight and scarcely definable. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel The opening syllabication is like dickcissel's; then follows a trill of no specially definable character. Birds of the Rockies Evolution implies definite though not precisely definable limits. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill There is something definable there, in the periphery of those ancient ruins. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Though clearly definable, under the rays of the sun it became quite transparent. The Fire People The feeling of disrespect abides in all these things, the expression of the spirit for which humanity is definable primarily by its weaknesses. Picture and Text 1893 The spirit definable as the immediate apprehension of the mind without reasoning—the spirit of intuition—aids us on either hand. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Glorious, or inglorious, the speciality itself is easily and accurately definable. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature There are in science immense numbers of different methods, appropriate to different classes of problems; but over and above them all, there is something not easily definable, which may be called the method of science. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays From this point of view the important element of being, its very essence or substance, is not any definable nature but an immediate relation to the knower. The Approach to Philosophy Larger and larger the object grew, until it assumed the definable shape of a squat silver funnel, falling in a perfect straight line towards the center of the light-ringed area. The Delegate from Venus It is lighter and less definable than honor and propriety. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals But when she heard Savonarola invoke martyrdom, she sobbed with the rest: she felt herself penetrated with a new sensation—a strange sympathy with something apart from all the definable interests of her life. Romola Henceforth the Revolutionary Tribunal, as of old the ecclesiastical courts, would take cognizance of crime absolute, of crime definable in a word. The Gods are Athirst Real nature, that exactly definable and predictable order of moving bodies defined in physics, is not known through sense-perception, but through thought. The Approach to Philosophy The relative duration is clear, tho the absolute duration may not be definable. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV She flushed with a mixture of emotions and tried in a resentful silence to think of some definable cause for her accusation against Rankin’s manners. The Squirrel-Cage Then there was a time when they separated jerkily and became the hazy but definable figures of men in rough seaman’s clothes. Far from Home When pericarditis develops as a result of or in connection with pleuritis, the distinction may not be very clearly definable, neither will many recover. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse It is unavoidable, then, to assume that in dealing with religion we are dealing with a specific and definable experience. The Approach to Philosophy Besides many other traits and qualities, definable and indefinable, Gorman had the power of assuming the appearance either of a burglar of the lowest type, or a well-to-do contractor or tradesman. Fighting the Flames There are terraces and terraces, each one with its own definable point of view, and it is this quality which should influence the traveller's choice. From a Terrace in Prague Process: a prolongation of the surface, margin, or an appendage: any prominent portion of the body not otherwise definable. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology He would admit that general resemblances scarcely definable by language might sometimes serve to allocate a species by its nearest relation. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Given the practical outlook upon life, there is no definable world that cannot be construed under the form of God. The Approach to Philosophy The significance of the boundary question to this study is better understood when it is recognized that the so-called Fair Play system of government in lands beyond the Provincial limits must have a definable locale. The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography The fact that individuals do differ, and in specific and definable respects, has most serious consequences for social life. Human Traits and their Social Significance If migration is a reasoned affair, it then follows that for every migration there must be some definable cause. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 You recognize it as having its roots in your organism, and its opportunity for exercise in certain definable and predictable circumstances. The Moral Economy To this end they are reduced to terms that correspond to no specific experience, and for this very reason may be translated again into all definable hypothetical experiences. The Approach to Philosophy Intuition is a thing more clearly definable and more easily analysed than almost any other of the aspects of the soul. The Complex Vision Every phenomenon that occurs is seen to be an instance of a general law that holds among all phenomena that resemble it in certain definable respects. Human Traits and their Social Significance Almost without definable reason the "Wild West" came to be a land of wonder, lit as by some magical light. The Eagle's Heart God is now immanent rather than transcendent; he has obtained a certain definable content. The Moral Economy There was no definite, definable change in the old man’s face, but his bearing, even as he lay, was appreciably more melancholy and impotent. Clayhanger The discovery however creates no uneasiness, so long as the phenomena evolved are of a certain kind and range within easily definable limits. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels The usefulness of these laws is proportionate to the extent to which the characters they treat of pervade the world, and to the accuracy with which they are definable. Memories and Studies "Well, our operations are definable as robbery and murder," he agreed. Space Viking They were more in the nature of successive grunts, not much more definable than the noises of animals. The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns No, my intention is to give you a position in this organization the exact terms of which are not clearly definable. Highways in Hiding Floods threaten, but only at certain definable spots. The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior I cannot look to anything so remotely definable as God for aid, nor do I ever regret not being able to do so. The Necessity of Atheism Every cloud that can be, is thus primarily definable: "Visible vapor of water floating at a certain height in the air." The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 But in any case tried in this court, the accused must be a person who has injured or killed a man who is definable as a practicing politician under the government of New Texas. Lone Star Planet Right and left belong to things definable by limit. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition The rigid framework which he adopted is easily definable with mathematical precision. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series He is not, for them, either the aggregate of existences, or existence in the abstract, or a being philosophically definable. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The change, however, is as a rule not very marked; it is sometimes, in fact, so slight as to be no more than simply palpable, though scarcely definable on the page. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition The reawakened interest in religion is clearly far from having reached its peak, in either its explicitly religious or its less definable spiritual manifestations. One Common Faith The place was heavily timbered, and almost all definable features were masked beneath the trees. The Lost Valley Pope's own religious position is characteristic and easily definable. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series He had hardly, till this moment, contemplated his own intentions, and now that he did so he found that he had been guided by none that were definable. Franklin Kane The metric system affords the basis for rational and definable rhythm, but "rhythm" itself does not enter into the proposition until differentiated factors are associated and opposed to each other. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Its particular property of being closed prevents it from being definable as an abstractive element. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 It was buried under the rank growth, and all definable features, as we learnt later—everything that could be used as a leading mark—had disappeared or been swamped by the wattles. The Lost Valley Her age was perhaps twenty-five, in her bearing was that subtle, scarcely definable, sureness of self which marks off womanhood from girlhood. Swirling Waters The early Victorians liked what was definable and tangible; they were "ponderous mechanists of style." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Limitations on the Police Power.—Because the police power of a State is the least limitable of the exercises of government, such limitations as are applicable thereto are not readily definable. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Commonly, the conviction seems to be only definable as an assurance of a superlative of which the positive and comparative are suppressed. Illusions A Psychological Study There were solid, definable arguments on the one side; there was a vague general impression on the other.... None Other Gods It is not to any very definable cause that this charming book owes the interest with which it holds the reader throughout. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics Glorious or inglorious, the speciality itself is easily and accurately definable. Rembrandt Its foundation is something far less definable—the general character for wisdom of the leading thinkers who have adopted it, and the general acceptance of its consequences by the common sense of mankind. Is Life Worth Living? But the measure, I must repeat, which was adopted by the authors of Gorboduc is by no means so definable. A Study of Shakespeare There is in fact hardly a single distinct and definable colour that cannot be fairly matched among the 390 species of known parrots. Science in Arcady Her sufferings were very great, and sometimes the physical depression exerted a definable influence on her spiritual state. Winter Evening Tales It hesitates to rely on the normal and the intelligible sources of ministerial power, to confess the relatively definable origin and understandable methods of our work. Preaching and Paganism The loss that would be suffered transcends all these concrete and definable instances of it. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 A handful of earth is definable only by its chemical or physical properties, which do not distinguish it, but confound it with other things. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 There was about him a power of attraction, not readily definable, but seeming mysteriously to assert some hidden claim from the past. Success A Novel Margaret was glad of this for various reasons, some definable and others vague. Doctor Claudius, A True Story New Views on Ether and Matter: Insufficiency of Larmor's view—Ether definable by electric and magnetic fields—Is matter all electrons? The New Physics and Its Evolution Risks on this score, however, will become less formidable with the further advance of practical astronomy along a track definable as an asymptote of ideal perfection. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 It has a natural basis which makes it definable. The Life of Reason Christ is a message of Divine love, indispensable and therefore true; but He is, as such, a spiritual mystery far more than a definable or dogmatic fact. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) The conditions to which a "good" labor union ought to conform are more easily definable than the conditions to which a "good" trust ought to conform. The Promise of American Life There are not many much better examples of the sort of play usually defined as a comedy of intrigue, but more properly definable as a comedy of action. The Age of Shakespeare "Proper motions," if this be so, are of a subordinate kind; they are indexes simply to the mechanism of particular aggregations, and have no definable connection with the mechanism of the whole. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Her novels in this line have an unusual charm of expression, whose definable elements are an unaffected simplicity and a certain quiet humor which admirably fits the chosen milieu. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 In less than thirty years it was divided into five dioceses, amongst which the place of the Fen country is more clearly definable. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See A solid angle is definable as the space contained by three or more planes intersecting in a common point; it is familiarly represented by a corner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 The last consummation of the year now passing over us is definable as Three Bags: a big bag for the body, two small bags for the arms, and by way of collar a hem! Past and Present They were not formed or definable at all before the year 1000; by the year 1200 they were gone. Hills and the Sea Once more came the noise, now more distinct and definable. Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir This worship is definable as perfect emotional solitude, close study, absolute chastity and celibacy, and at last the merging of the personal into the impersonal. The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga In inductive reasoning we put individual facts and cases together into a class on the basis of some definable similarity, and then infer from them a general principle. The Making of Arguments It must confine itself to offences strictly definable. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Maybe she would be running over her child no differently than her craven and neglectful parents except that their rationale was to fulfill duties whereas hers would be less definable. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America The cranial characters of the Xanthochroi are not, at present, strictly definable. Critiques and Addresses No concept is statable or definable without its opposite; one involves the other. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The universe itself is only a toy of the Definite and the Indefinite; and the real definition of the definable is an allegorical miniature of the life and activity of ever-flowing creation. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Again, an offence punished by law must be, in its nature, definable; which, makes a difficulty in such cases as insult, and defamation, and many species of fraud. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics All words standing for complex ideas are definable; but those by which we denote simple ideas, are not. The Grammar of English Grammars He 'worked while he ate, he cut down his sleep, and for him the penalty came, not in a palpable, definable illness, but in an abrupt, incongruous reaction and collapse.' The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories We may affirm that there is a deity with definable attributes; and that there is a conscious state and continued personality after the dissolution of the body. On Compromise There was no definable reason for his going. The Grafters It has usually no definable shape, often sending out one or two branches greatly beyond the rest, some directed obliquely downwards, others twisted and horizontal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 As words or sounds of this kind serve rather to indicate feeling than to express thought, they seldom have any definable signification. The Grammar of English Grammars Born into the world with many other gifts, this last and least definable gift of popularity was added to complete them all. Malbone: an Oldport Romance One was of a beautiful woman and the other might have been a likeness of the man who sat beside her, except for a subtle difference of expression that was scarcely definable. Tarzan of the Apes The play and slight agitation of the water, in its upward gush, wrought magically with these variegated pebbles, and made a continually shifting apparition of quaint figures, vanishing too suddenly to be definable. House of the Seven Gables SOCIALISM, like everything else that is vital, is rather a tendency than a strictly definable body of doctrine. Proposed Roads to Freedom A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H The pedantic decisions and definable readjustments of man may be found in scrolls and statute books and scriptures; but men's basic assumptions and everlasting energies are to be found in penny dreadfuls and halfpenny novelettes. Heretics This change was, indeed, more apparent than definable. The Market-Place She might be any one of a dozen definable types, or she might—more disconcertingly to her companion and more perilously to herself—be a shifting and uncrystallized mixture of them all. The Reef With one exception there was nothing definably abnormal about him. The Wisdom of Father Brown She had no doubt that he intended to come back; her doubts were far deeper and less definable. Summer Hence he had no strength to spare; hence he had no kindness, no geniality; for geniality is almost definable as strength to spare. Heretics Henchard's chiding, by begetting in her a nervous fear of doing anything definable as unladylike, had operated thus curiously in keeping them unknown to each other at a critical moment. The Mayor of Casterbridge The change, for Darrow, was less definable; but, perhaps for that reason, it struck him as more sharply significant. The Reef With a feeling of terror not very definable, she fixed her eyes on the staircase, and in a few moments it gave Henry to her view. Northanger Abbey The very next instant, perhaps, I doubt if I have really any existence! if waking and dreaming be not the same thing! and whether either of them are definable or intelligible! The Adventures of Hugh Trevor It is a quite continuous advance along a quite solid road in a quite definable direction. Heretics When Barold saw her next, he was struck by a slight but distinctly definable change he recognized in her dress and coiffure. A Fair Barbarian Nevertheless the subject has a practical aspect which is definable in plain prose. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller My own earliest definable memory is of a great funeral of one of the Dukes of Gordon, when I was between two and three years of age. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare If the claim to this respect be definable, and capable of being enforced upon good reasons, it is obvious that improved sense in the people will better appreciate them. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance Fresenius defines it thus: "Every operation, or process, whereby bodies are made to pass from the fluid to the solid state, and to assume certain fixed, mathematically definable, regular forms." Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 I left my guest abruptly, with a feeling of vexation not very easily definable. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance Yet he had given her no definable cause to count on him as an admirer or lover. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense Further it is always assumed that all human practical activity is directed or "oriented" to a single end, and that that end is knowable or definable in advance of its realisation. Ethics "The Ancient Mariner" is the most sustained piece of imagination in the whole of English poetry; and it has almost every definable merit of imaginative narrative. Poems of Coleridge Being indicted does not cause any clear, precisely definable change in a person's appearance, of course. The Trial There is thus no reference whatever to something 'not definable either as being or non-being': the terms 'being' and 'non-being' are applied to different mode; of being at different times. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 Uniting the genuineness of the popular ballad with the finer sense of conscious artistic poetry, these poems possess a charm different, though in an only half definable way, from that of any other lyrics. A History of English Literature Drunkenness has no doubt played a large part in eliminating certain types of people from the world, but that it specifically eliminates one specific definable type is an altogether different matter. Mankind in the Making But in "Christabel," in the first part especially, we find a quality which goes almost beyond these definable merits. Poems of Coleridge A certain feeling of anxiety and insecurity began to take possession of me, though there was no definable cause for it, unless that I might be belated in getting home. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales As perfect a whole as any of its parts, must not the universe have a definable outline or shape,—one to which nothing amorphous can possibly belong? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 The right box is definable as the first at the right end of the series instead of the first at the left end as in the original problem 1. The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior If all names were definable, it would be a Process IN INFINITUM. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 The course of events must assume a certain definable shape, and until it is in a phase where some aspect is an accomplished fact, news does not separate itself from the ocean of possible truth. Public Opinion Above all on the threshold of Italy he knows again the solid and perfectly definable pleasure of finding himself among the traditions of the grand style in architecture. Italian Hours The New England civilization of the early nineteenth century, now materially altered, was a definable culture, with five generations behind it, and strong roots in the old world. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Her reflections at this specific hour were scarcely definable. Her Weight in Gold Complex Ideas definable only when the simple ideas of which they consist have been got from experience. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 Her aromatic presence, and in this setting, continually disturbed him: nature's perfumes, more definable,—exhalations of the sea and spruce,—mingled with hers, anaesthetics compelling lethargy. The Inside of the Cup — Complete Her aromatic presence, and in this setting, continually disturbed him: nature's perfumes, more definable, —exhalations of the sea and spruce,—mingled with hers, anaesthetics compelling lethargy. The Inside of the Cup — Volume 02 The spiritual life, to which art belongs and of which she is one of the mightiest elements, is a complicated but definite and easily definable movement forwards and upwards. Concerning the Spiritual in Art On the whole, then, and within limits that were only more or less definable, he was something of a personality. Told in the East When they add themselves to being, they partly redetermine the existent, so that reality as a whole appears incompletely definable unless ideas also are kept account of. Meaning of Truth A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. Pragmatism Suppose that external conditions acting on species A give rise to a new species, B; the difference between the two species is a certain definable amount which may be called A-B. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 I WAS very unhappy, from a variety of causes, definable and undefinable. Woman's Trials Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us The proofs, now that "the tumult and the shouting dies," and civilian life has dropped back into something like its usual routine, are naturally less definable than at the outset. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort It filled him with a scarcely definable uneasiness. The Golden Snare Our personal identity, then, consists, for Locke, solely in pragmatically definable particulars. Pragmatism At moments he felt a longing perhaps definable as the instinct of paternity; but he was not the man to grow sentimental over babies, his own or other people's. In the Year of Jubilee We have lost immensely in some things, and what we have gained is not yet so obvious or so definable. Winter Sunshine Here again we have a definable characteristic extending through the universe. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science "Forgive me;" and my heart sank suddenly with a vague, in definable sense of apprehension as I looked at her. To-morrow? The supremest bliss would not be bliss if it were not definable bliss—that is to say, in the sense that it has limits, marking it out from something else not so supreme. Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott It apparently became confused with U.S. kluge during or after World War II; some Britons from that era use both words in definably different ways, but kluge is now uncommon in Great Britain. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 I do not like to distinguish them by means of such notions as "consciousness" or "will," because I do not think these notions, in any definable sense, are always applicable. The Analysis of Mind Every object has its characteristics which are already quiescent, those which are active, and those which are not yet definable. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man In this category fall literature, mathematics, philosophy, and almost everything else definable within literacy as formative subject matter or discipline. The Civilization of Illiteracy The water-channels winding here and there, definable by crisp white shingling, appeared like threads tangled among islands green with grasses and fringed with reeds. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ But the wide-weltering chaos of platitudes, agitated by hysterical imbecilities, regulating England in this great crisis, fills the constitutional mind with sorrow; and indeed is definable, once more, as amazing! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 The other French Biographies, definable as "IGNOR-AMUS speaking in a loud voice to IGNOR-ATIS," require to be altogether swept aside in this matter. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 Intricate indeed; and even imaginary,—definable mainly as a bottomless abyss of nightmare dreams to the English Nation and them! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 As we entertain the prospect that nations, as definable political entities, might disappear, we automatically wonder whether the family, as a definable social entity, will survive-and if yes, in what form. The Civilization of Illiteracy What lies behind the Tank depends upon this fact; there is no definable upward limit of mass. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war The war which seemed such a definable catastrophe in 1914 was, after all, only the first loud crack and smash of the collapse. Secret Places of the Heart But the artistic temperament was far from explaining him; there was something else about him that was not definable, but which some even felt to be dangerous. The Man Who Knew Too Much It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare For indeed if it were perceived it would fall under the head of some definable quality, and so becoming the object of thought would cease to be the subject, would cease to be the Self. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Here no victory yet definable can be considered as final. The French Revolution False speech, definable as the acme of unwise speech, is capable, as we already said, of becoming the falsest of all things. Latter-Day Pamphlets But it may have been put on, for the whole personality was not clearly definable. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes Man, by the nature of him, is definable as 'an incarnated Word.' The French Revolution |
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