| 单词 | describable |
| 例句 | They were anything but describable, having been conceived, manufactured, shipped, and sold in various states of thoughtlessness, greed, and indifference. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There are a thousand small filaments of connection here, some describable as dance, others more to do with facial tilt or eye movement. Home is where the toaster, couch and gymnastic tussles are, in UMAMI performance's 'home | bodies' 2010-08-05T21:58:00Z “Spiders don’t have a conventional sense of smell, he said. “So all those things are best describable as the term for the end product of a male cow.” Too many spiders? It’s just a cosmetic issue. 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Every time the choreography resolves into a describable image, that image dissolves and becomes the basis for a new construction. Review: Ballet Arizona Performs ‘Round’ in a Dreamy Desert Ambience 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z San Francisco is a tiny village compared with Seoul, and its cityscape easily describable. In South Korea, a search for beauty, one day at a time 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z It didn’t get more roguish than a 350-pound former boy genius seeking to make a barely describable film-within-a-film about a great man who has lost his creative powers. Review: ‘Orson Welles’s Last Movie,’ by Josh Karp 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z He is describable, almost fully, in a few short words: a misogynist, a bigot, a narcissist, a con man and a demagogue. Chris Hayes Reviews Michiko Kakutani’s Book About Our Post-Truth Era 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Every act was describable in a sentence or two. The Danger Artist 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Looking back, I was seeking my own instruction: I wanted to challenge myself to expand the field of the describable. Review | Annie Ernaux deconstructs our love affair with the Walmarts of the world 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z BOB AS LEONARD: The feeling of her body against mine was simply not describable. From Orgasms to Overdoses: How Marie Nyswander Went from Treating ‘Sexual Frigidity’ to Heroin Addiction 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Pauli, in an attempt to explain the structure of atomic spectra and the periodic table, had recently postulated that electrons had a “two-valuedness not describable classically.” Quantum Particles Aren’t Spinning. So Where Does Their Spin Come From? 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z “The tragedy of our poor wounded here in America is not describable without shedding tears, and those left behind with the enemy have no aid.” ‘What a Horrible Place This Would Have Been’ 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Rauch is determined to be an optimist about his one large idea: that an established scientific method reliant on discernible facts and describable methodology can still produce consensus among opinion-shapers and elites on fundamental issues. Review | Faith that the truth can still defeat misinformation 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z But here we are in a readily describable, purely mathematical domain. For Math Fans: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Number 42 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “We started to walk around and it was extremely sad, it was not describable the devastation and the sound of the explosion,” he said. Lebanese bride happy to be alive after blast cuts short wedding video 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Clearly, observers must share an environment of some sort, even if such an environment is not physical—i.e., not describable by physical quantities. The Universe as Cosmic Dashboard 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z This time, they would be called upon to break a genuine parliamentary impasse about a specific and describable predicament. Have MPs, finally, come up with a decent Brexit proposal? | Matthew d’Ancona 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Dr. Garibaldi recommended a few resources to learn more about this idea, which is sometimes called something like describable or closed-form numbers. The Unknowability of the Number Line 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Those injuries and related damages are readily apparent and describable. Bankruptcy on the table as Boy Scouts confront sex abuse claims 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z But if we introspect carefully into this experience, is what we find accurately describable as “flow”? Do We Actually Experience the Flow of Time?
2018-11-14T05:00:00Z “It’s unfair to him at this point. What his wife is going through, what his beautiful children are going through is not describable.” ‘The trauma for a man’: Male fury and fear rises in GOP in defense of Kavanaugh 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z "What his wife is going through, what his beautiful children are going through, it's not describable... It's not fair." Trump says Republican senators are calling the shots on Kavanaugh FBI investigation - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Isaac Newton's seventeenth-century vista shows us reality as an infinite space in which time passes and particles push each other about with mathematically describable forces, such as his laws of motion and universal gravitation. Theoretical physics: Windows on the weird : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z As with most things, it’s not easily describable with the adjectives taught in school. This Is What It's Like to Work in Silicon Valley as a Teen 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Light is describable as an electromagnetic wave and as a particle, a photon. A Bold Critic of the Big Bang’s "Smoking Gun" 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The room was a mass of little luxuries—trifles too light and various to be describable, all the nameless elegancies of modern life, with its superfluities, its pretence of intellect, its discriminating taste. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z It was not a work describable to the fastidious ears of our century, unless we leave part of the description in Latin. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z It was a wilderness of irregular rooms, of no describable shape in its exterior, and from its southern balcony, to use an expressive gallicism, gave upon the bay. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z This affirmation is a positive, not a negative, affirmation, and is properly describable as Atheism because it does not include in it any possibility of Theos. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Each of these stages of psychical development, even if that development be obviously describable as degeneration, has something which, duly adjusted, has its place and function in the theory of the normally-complete human mind. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z I cannot in the least describe the feeling; but I do not think this is my fault, nor that of the English language, for, I am afraid, no feeling is describable. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z There is a fourth type of hair describable as “frizzy.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z There is also the solemn business of writing economic history, in which the historian may lapse at will into algebra, and anything not otherwise describable may be called "social tissue." Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z We reached Alpenach in a state of body and of wardrobe scarcely describable. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Factors that will help sustain a search include the observation of specific and describable behavior or activities leading one reasonably to believe that a given student is engaging in or has engaged in prohibited conduct. What Works: Schools Without Drugs 2011-08-17T02:00:26.487Z Lions and wolves, monsters not describable except by saying that they have claws, which they can stretch out, these seem to fill the blackness for some children. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z When I closed my eyes, the eyes of the woman were still there, gazing at me with a steadfastness that produced a sensation almost describable as hypnotic. A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z He himself sent us pictures for the Exhibition, and guided our judgment in admiring and caring for those which were best and most to be valued, with a paternal care and zeal not describable. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z To describe the joys and jollifications attendant on Christmas, is what my confined limits would counsel me not to attempt, even if they were describable matters. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z Her final utterance was in a tone fictionally describable as “tinged by the bitterness of despair.” Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z It is a description of the universe as far as it is describable. Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse 2011-02-24T03:01:00.270Z Where the greater portion of a section is properly describable as wet and unfit for cultivation, it is called swamp land. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z To one who has heard so much of racial hatred as I have since I have been down here, a little incident that I observed the other day comes with a charm hardly describable. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z This issue is only describable using words like obligation, ethics and responsibility. Climate Responses: Primal Easy, Ethical Hard 2010-09-29T17:48:00Z Of these two powers the visual, while only one power, is, according to its diversity of objects, indirectly describable as of five kinds, vision, audition, cogitation, discrimination, and omniscience. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy It may still be called an act, but it has no describable instruments nor technique of operation. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Nor is the One describable in terms of volition or activity. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy This condition, describable as plethora, is succeeded by another catalogued as panic. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident Nature exhibits only changes, which habitually coincide with one another so that their habits are describable in simple ‘laws.’ Essays in Radical Empiricism The active power, though one only, is indirectly describable as of three kinds, the possession of the swiftness of thought, the power of assuming forms at will, and the faculty of expatiation. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy Feminine ingenuity seemingly exhausted itself in conjuring up all sorts of things, describable and indescribable, that could make life a burden to a “raw recruit,” a wheelbarrow being needed for their transportation. A Raw Recruit's War Experiences The planets circle about the sun in accordance with the pull and haul of forces which work in the same direction from year to year and lead to the same mathematically describable result. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Accepting this expression as the one intended, we have next to ask what expansion there is, between two waters, describable by the term Heaven. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Were our world describable only by the words ‘nothing happening,’ ‘nothing changing,’ ‘nothing doing,’ we should unquestionably call it an ‘inactive’ world. Essays in Radical Empiricism What appears to introspection as the scarcely analyzable state of anger appears to the external observer as clenched fists, flushed face, labored breathing, tense muscles, loud voice, and many other describable details. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Accepting this expression as the one intended, we have next to ask what expansion there is, between two waters, describable by the term "heaven." Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' He opened his lips again, but no sound came; a grin of horror was the only describable expression on his face. The Bondwoman If there are no intelligible or describable social processes, then there may be progress, but there will be no sociology and no methods of progress. Introduction to the Science of Sociology This objectivity can accrue to any mental figment that has enough cohesion, content, and individuality to be describable and recognizable, and these qualities belong no less to audible than to spatial ideas. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory So far, his attitude had been best describable as that of the prone position. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Nature possessed for him not merely enjoyable and describable characters of great variety and minuteness, but an immediately apprehended unity and meaning. The Approach to Philosophy They are merely aggregations of describable parts, each of which has well-defined functions. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries The difference between any two individuals, if describable at all, is described by comparing the amounts which A possesses of various traits with the amounts which B possesses of the same traits. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The typical characters describable by the empirical method are therefore few: the miser, the lover, the old nurse, the ing�nue, and the other types of traditional comedy. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory This wider stage of nationalism has attained its highest development among the Turks; where, indeed, it has gone through two distinct phases, describable respectively by the terms "Pan-Turkism" and "Pan-Turanism." The New World of Islam Of course, the scenery is indescribable—no scenery is describable. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication But each "state" is a definite, more or less describable, fact or phenomenon. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries There is, of course, no gap between reflexes and instincts, or between instincts and the still less easily describable original tendencies. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The last sound, which is not describable, was immediately followed by the sudden appearance of a man, who flew down the passage as if from a projectile, and went headlong into the kennel. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Of these plans many never reached a describable shape; very few reached even partial execution. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Whatever is composed of sensations is thus describable. Psychotherapy It modestly confines its scope of research to what appears in finite and describable forms. Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Was the figure in the carpet traceable or describable only for husbands and wives—for lovers supremely united? Embarrassments The Hebrew, knowing to some extent the cause of what he did, and feeling bound by his promise to conceal his knowledge, was reduced to a state of mind that is not describable. The Hot Swamp The chief part of this consists of the rocket-stand and the box in which the line is coiled, in a peculiar and scarcely describable manner, that permits of its flying out with great freedom. Battles with the Sea But they also make many other scarcely describable noises. My First Voyage to Southern Seas The terror of those on land was hardly describable as they saw the shipping dragging around toward apparent destruction to both vessels and crews. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Wars as historical events are not completely describable in terms of these laws. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History What followed was communication of a sort, not in words or in any describable flow of thoughts. Storm Over Warlock First there is solar, and then there is geological evolution, processes accurately describable as integrations in the mechanical sense, namely, as decrease in bulk, or growth in hardness. Memories and Studies I often wonder if Dreiser gets anything properly describable as pleasure out of this dogged accumulation of threadbare, undistinguished, uninspiring nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, participles and conjunctions. A Book of Prefaces The result is often a shapeless mass; but there are methods of arranging the cloth in definite ways which produce describable results. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea It may be added that the latter are roughly describable as common illusions. Illusions A Psychological Study And the 'good' we are now considering can surely be not less describable than these. Is Life Worth Living? And there was yet another shade, only describable by the term 'molten-lava colour.' A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months We mention these to give some idea of the spirit in which this work of marquetry is executed—a work too fragmentary and incoherent to be easily describable except by its specimens. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 It was a singularly winning face, intelligent, frank, not describable. Composition-Rhetoric Were our world describable only by the words 'nothing happening,' 'nothing changing,' 'nothing doing,' we should unquestionably call it an 'inactive' world. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The positivists have bound themselves to admit that theirs is nothing unless describable. Is Life Worth Living? Even Dave Cowan, drifting in from out of the nowhere—in shoes properly describable as only memories of shoes—said she was a snappy little machine, and applauded his son's easy mastery of it. The Wrong Twin Its whim and humour is describable only by the British Aristophanes. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) Oddly enough, however, the writers of these books have rarely been commended for the really praiseworthy charity evinced therein toward that large long-suffering class loosely describable as the average-novel-reader. The Certain Hour Then the screw set to work at its maximum speed, its four blades beating the waves with in describable force. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea To the Christians, indeed, it is quite open to make their supposed shame their glory, and to say that their heaven would be 166nothing if describable. Is Life Worth Living? The little man stopped short and in full view of the public achieved what, had he been a child, were most properly describable as making a face at me. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking These leagues of palaces, of warehouses, of business structures, of buildings describable and indescribable, are not beautiful, but sinister. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints She herself was conscious of a greater intellectual maturity, a more subtle quality in her looks, a beauty less describable, more exotic, perhaps, but also more provocative. The Mischief Maker Even outside of Spain his subsequent celebrity has tended to ground itself upon agreement with his politics, and not upon anything properly describable as a critical appreciation of his talents. Youth and Egolatry It has certain describable qualities, however, and the best place to discover these is our own bookcase. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived At this time Decaen was holding Ile-de-France by a policy fairly describable as one of "bluff." The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Maisie surveyed—for the idea of a describable loss—the immensity of space. What Maisie Knew From the technical standpoint these tests were relatively unsatisfactory because only inexactly describable. The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior When we examine this accession of energy we find it to be describable in several ways—physiologically, neurologically and psychologically. How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study There is difference perceptible to me, but hardly describable between the Galway men and the rest of the West. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Books like "The Three Soldiers" spill over in all directions—spill into poetry, philosophy, into endless conversation, and into everything describable. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism If he had owned a definite purpose, a definite ambition, a describable desire, it would have been different, but he had none. Youth Challenges There occurred, also, less definite and easily describable efforts to get at the reward. The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior The scene of gratitude and joy that ensued was not describable, and some hours passed before either mother or daughter became sufficiently composed to take thought of the future. Janice Meredith Obviously, we cannot be satisfied with such a reduction of wholes into single geometrically describable parts, followed by a reassembling of these parts into a whole. Man or Matter Our pragmatist view, on the contrary, is that the truth-relation is a definitely experienceable relation, and therefore describable as well as namable; that it is not unique in kind, and neither invariable nor universal. Meaning of Truth There proceeded from Billy a noise not describable in words. Psmith, Journalist Rigid spaces and elastic spaces behave differently from spaces describable in language. The Civilization of Illiteracy This was an anomaly not to be accounted for by any philosophy of mine, and I was many times, in contemplating it, excited to terrors and mental torments hardly describable. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Few Americans will ever ask whether any one has described the Palgraves, but the family was one of the most describable in all England at that day. The Education of Henry Adams The German dye agencies became, at once, the active agents of their Government in various schemes, the nature of which we shall outline, and their "information" functions became very definitely describable as espionage. The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war |
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