| 单词 | diffuseness |
| 例句 | He addressed himself to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was “very glad;” but diffuseness and warmth remained for Bingley’s salutation. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The production’s diffuseness is partly deliberate, I think. Review: ‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair,’ a Play About Unmoored Lives 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “All the Rage” doesn’t have the natural emotional arc provided by the personal history of “The Tricky Part”; in its diffuseness it is less dramatically satisfying. Theater Review: Martin Moran’s ‘All the Rage’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-01-31T03:00:51Z Given TV’s diffuseness, “best” is a tough claim to make, and the award show is at its best when it seeks to mark a cultural moment. Here’s Who Should—and Actually Will—Win Emmys This Year 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Yet this dynamic also contributes to the work’s diffuseness. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham’s ‘Pavement,’ at Harlem Stage Gatehouse 2012-11-05T22:53:34Z But the play’s episodic structure creates diffuseness, certain plot twists are strained, some psychological epiphanies are too tidy, and the narrative treads an uneasy tightrope between realism and symbolism. Review | ‘Mother Road’ is often a slog despite burnished production at Arena Stage 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The range of acting styles, which run from amateurish exaggeration to Ms. Dukakis’s almost Method-like muttering, gives this production a wobbly diffuseness. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z There was, I thought, a certain spatial diffuseness to it. In Paris, a Music Hall Built for Unity Offers a Stirring First Act 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But variations are a good medium for Eschenbach, who likes to examine music’s individual moments and who is good at highlighting drama, and the result, diffuseness and all, was generally agreeable. Review | Two ways of looking at a canon: the NSO goes Romantic 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The diffuseness of the show’s writing is more problematic. Review | Psalmayene 24’s autobiographical ‘Dear Mapel’ has a promising yet uneven debut 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z It captures our own appetite for a public reckoning about abusive men, tempered by our discomfort with the medium, its diffuseness and anonymity, and the nature of a small minority of the accusations. The Shitty Media Men list was imperfect – but what else were women to do? | Jill Filipovic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z There is nothing historically unique about the type of war the Islamic State is waging, but the diffuseness of contemporary social networks presents a new challenge. How the tribal warfare of our ancestors explains the Islamic State 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The diffuseness and decentralization of the movement is viewed by many activist leaders as a source of energy, with local organizations tailoring solutions to problems in their communities. One Slogan, Many Methods: Black Lives Matter Enters Politics 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Opacity being constant, the total radiation of a giant star depends on its mass only, and is quite independent of its temperature or state of diffuseness. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z —Well, well, boys! pardon an old man's diffuseness!—his twilight dullness! The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z This would in part account for the diffuseness which characterises "The Portrait of St. Paul." Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z The special bent of his mind in early years, and his love for study rather than sport, are shown in the following reminiscence of his youth, which he narrates with his characteristic diffuseness. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Though not entirely free from the diffuseness and repetition of age, it is nearer free than many respectable books of much younger men, while in faithfulness, patience and, on the whole, discrimination, it surpasses most. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z We wish neither random diffuseness nor fixed rigidity. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z Without these, emotion would lose itself for want of restraint, wasted, like spilt wine, by diffuseness. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z But, on the other hand, when the inspiration forsakes her, she drifts along on a windy current of words, the fatal facility of her pen often beguiling the writer into vague diffuseness and unsubstantial declamation. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Do they express themselves upon the weightiest subject considerately and with lawyerlike diffuseness, or on the most frivolous subject frivolously? The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The sonnet form restrained that tendency to diffuseness which was her besetting sin, and so the fetters proved, as they so often do, to be the means whereby she moved more freely. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The diffuseness of the diction of the Story of Rimini results in a movement weaker than Dryden’s and less buoyant than Chaucer’s. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z There is no waste of power in diffuseness and no employment of unnecessary epithets. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Translated into English Verse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.917Z Bach's processes of revision so far mentioned, however, merely correct faults of form, that is, diffuseness or incomplete development of a musical thought. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z His works are repulsive on account of the dull diffuseness of their style, and a certain air, as of a superior person, which characterises them; but nevertheless they contain good things here and there. Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions 2010-12-20T17:12:31.233Z Their very diffuseness has contributed to their popularity, but it damages them as literature. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Again and again during that night did I wonder at my own diffuseness—again and again did I curse the prolix accuracy of a description that cost such labor to reiterate. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. His diffuseness and the antiquated character of his matter and diction, have, however, come to be regarded as difficulties in the way of study, and he is more renowned than read. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The largeness in his manner of relating, is rather an explicit and lucid fulness in representing an interesting subject, than what is properly called diffuseness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 This amplification is produced partly by the importation of incidents and episodes from other works, but still more by indulging in constant diffuseness and what we must perhaps call commonplaces. A Short History of French Literature To a soup�on of diffuseness the poet must, however, plead guilty—guilty, moreover, because of the invincible temptation to pad out a line now and then 'for crambo's sake' when the ideas ran short. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series The diffuseness of the English novel, in short, and its extravagant didacticism cannot fail to be most prejudicial to its perpetuation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Again and again during that night did I wonder at my own diffuseness—again and again did I curse the prolix accuracy of a description that cost such labour to reiterate. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Professional writers who follow journalism for its immediate profits, are liable in like manner to retain the habit of diffuseness in literature which ought to be more finished and more concentrated. The Intellectual Life Their besetting sins are diffuseness and the recurrence of stock descriptions and images. A Short History of French Literature The lectures are written in simple style, but suffer from diffuseness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" And there was pathos in those simple, stammering words, more than in half the self-conscious diffuseness of tragic poetry. Old and New London Volume I There is no want in him, either, of that power of epigrammatic terseness, which, in spite of its diffuseness, his age valued and cultivated. Spenser But it is idle to plead against diffuseness now, when writers are paid by the page or line. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Need we consider the respective positions of Bruckner or Mahler, one all prodigality and diffuseness, the other largely cerebral? Ivory Apes and Peacocks In listening to Chopin we are never conscious of turgidity, of diffuseness, of labored treatment of material. Music: An Art and a Language They avoid circumlocutions, eschew diffuseness, go straight to the point, and prefer concrete to abstract expressions. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) But in contrast to the diffuseness of the Americans the French are distinguished by a brevity characteristic of their language. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens And then, besides diffuseness, our age has wonderful literary fecundity. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 With some diffuseness, he is usually clear and animated. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 The want of a work containing clear instructions, without unnecessary diffuseness, by which the uninitiated may become their own instructors, has long been sensibly felt; and this want, the following pages are intended to supply. The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet Etymologically, diffuseness is a scattering, both of words and thought; redundancy is an overflow. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Trees and shrubs were flame-colored, copper-colored, wine-colored, differing only in their diffuseness of hue from the concentrated gorgeousness of amaranth, canna, and gladiolus. The Dust Flower But when poems are paid by the line, bards are pardonable for diffuseness. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 They afforded besides a particularly well-marked example of that diffuseness of radiation previously observed in some less conspicuous displays. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition It must be added that the diffuseness which characterizes her fiction, also pervades her correspondence. Famous Women: George Sand He was indulgent to the diffuseness of a suffering soul, and permitted her to pour out freely her most trivial afflictions. Germinie Lacerteux The reason is that Thackeray worked by 'diffuseness of style.' Gilbert Keith Chesterton This material, being new, could not produce the effect of diffuseness that would result from the expansion of the old material already complete in its simplest form, and thus this instance does not imply criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" And all the time she was aware of Brodrick's eyes fixed on Miss Holland with that curious lack of diffuseness in their vision. The Creators A Comedy In sum, the student may congratulate himself that a continuous study of the Northern newspapers for the period of the Civil War is unnecessary, for their size and diffuseness are appalling. Historical Essays The temptation to diffuseness and irrelevancy is as embarrassing and dangerous. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography However much the inclination and, I might add, temptation may run in the direction of fluency and diffuseness in this case, my utterance shall be as brief as possible. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. No lover then at least of Shakespeare may fairly accuse Cicero of gorgeousness of phraseology or diffuseness of style. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Louis dwelt with eloquent diffuseness on the advantages of traveling with such a companion, of the fine opportunity he had of seeing something of the world, after leading the student’s monotonous and secluded life. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel With the abundance of materials for modern history, and, for that reason, our tendency to diffuseness, nothing is so important as a thorough acquaintance with the best classic models, such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Tacitus. Historical Essays Correctness and clearness properly belong to the domain of diction; simplicity, conciseness, gravity, elegance, diffuseness, floridity, force, feebleness, coarseness, etc., belong to the domain of style. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The diffuseness of the present revenue system of the United States is doubtless one of its greatest imperfections, and under it the exemption of any article from taxation is the exception rather than the rule. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 It shows his personal characteristics, being a clear and accurate statement of the facts actually observed and of the information acquired by him at first hand, without diffuseness or unnecessary theorizing. Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 It need not contain all these things, because we can often do better by checking diffuseness, and by resolute self-limitation. Joyous Gard The decline of the old English poetry is shown by an increase of diffuseness and insipidity. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature As to all these interesting questions the "Various Letters", with all their diffuseness, give us no more information than the most jejune of the annalists. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation It begun by saying that Piper began life as the driver of a fish-cart in Marblehead, and that he was discharged by his employer on account of the diffuseness of his style. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The extreme diffuseness of the light enabled me to see the smallest objects in the distant copses. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Concentration is one of Chopin's principal characteristics, and the sonata favors diffuseness. Chopin and Other Musical Essays He who aims to write well, will avoid diffuseness. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors Mr. Hall Caine has not a little of Hugo's audacity, but, with it, not a little of Hugo's diffuseness. Adventures in Criticism In the later sonatas we meet with diffuseness; and sometimes a stroke of genius is followed by music which, at any rate for Schubert, is commonplace. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development It is a little singular that this work has not been translated into English, for, in spite of its lack of method, its diffuseness and disproportionate developments, it is very attractive and interesting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 His works are repulsive, on account of the dull diffuseness of their style, and a certain air, as of a superior person, which characterises them; but nevertheless they contain good things here and there. Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays But the best of the book is second-rate, vitiated by diffuseness, imitativeness, and the usual sentimentality. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 The wide extent and great diffuseness of this bright-line nebulosity over a large part of the constellation of Orion might be regarded, perhaps, as pointing in this direction. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 He does not waste words or revel in bombastic diffuseness. Norse Tales and Sketches Reel off a host of threads before their faces, So that they gape in stupid wonder: then By sheer diffuseness you have won their graces, And are, at once, most popular of men. Faust They wrote in a language that had been sublimated into electric clouds by the warm and splendid diffuseness of Cicero, and reduced to a granite-like strength by the cold and exquisite simplicity of Terence. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Undue conciseness often checks the flow of expression, while diffuseness is alike detrimental to a clear and precise exposition of our ideas. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Even the heroic couplets of his poem on "Poetry" aim rather at pseudo-Pindaric diffuseness than at epigrammatic concentration of statement. Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) Here is not the mere difference, you will perceive, between ornament and simplicity, but between a diffuseness which distracts, and a condensation which concentres the attention. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays His writings are all interesting and informing, but in general suffer from his tendency to diffuseness. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature His pictures have the charm of naturalness and a simplicity that is more effective than the most ornate diffuseness. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 But the power and progress of the play are clogged by two faults—defective construction and a curious diffuseness and lack of concentration in many of the scenes and speeches. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 After all, it is probable that, in addressing the public at large, it is not best to express a thought in as few words as possible; there is much classic authority for diffuseness.' Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Writing weekly for the feuilleton of a Paris daily journal, M. Sainte-Beuve cannot but be sometimes diffuse; but his diffuseness is always animated, never languid. Essays Æsthetical Schoolboys to-day are able to point out defects in his style, glibly talking of loosely-built sentences, redundancies, diffuseness, or what not. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities Some indefinable diffuseness in anguish allows now and then a ray of hope to pierce through it. The Man Who Laughs His facility in versification led him to diffuseness in his poems, and the modest estimation in which he held his work, when done, was a discouragement to the limae labor so necessary to perfection. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II Conciseness is the characteristic of the real ballad, diffuseness of the modern adaptation. Famous Reviews Our literature also possesses such short "sketches," but the love of psychological detail in the development of the plot nearly always results in the greater diffuseness of the novel. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. It explains much of the diffuseness and formlessness of his poetry, and his inability to grasp the great truth how much the half may be greater than the whole. English Men of Letters: Crabbe He was in doubt whether his friend had not infected him with a 'certain epic spirit' which tended to diffuseness. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller My apology for diffuseness in this part of my narrative is that some threads of the fringe of my own fate show every now and then in the record of these proceedings. Wilfrid Cumbermede His style varies between immoderate diffuseness and obscure brevity; sometimes he is barely intelligible, and he never writes with grace. Latin Literature His passion for minute detail is only to be equalled by his diffuseness on points mainly if not altogether irrelevant. Among My Books Second Series But Mat was the last man in the world to err, at any time, on the side of diffuseness in relating the results of his own experience. Hide and Seek The form of the monodistich was in itself a safeguard against diffuseness, but not against the equal peril of inanity. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Their diffuseness amusingly contrasts with Varro's brevity in his dedication. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius There is a certain legal precision about it which issues in diffuseness and repetition; over and over again occur such phrases as "fowl, cattle, creeping things, each after its kind," vi. Introduction to the Old Testament Quinctilian, however, asserts that he proved here, for once, what he might have done, had he chosen to restrain himself instead of yielding to his natural propensity to diffuseness. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Now this tallies perfectly with the exceeding diffuseness of the matter of those elder planets, Saturn being not more dense or heavy than the substance cork. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation This method," as his friend observed, "will leave behind it a laxity, a diffuseness. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives He thinks that there is foundation for the prevailing belief that dictation is apt to cause diffuseness. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents The fifth and sixth cantos, in spite of the glittering sketch of Gulbeyaz, and tho fawn-like image of Dudù, are open to the charge of diffuseness, and the character of Johnson is a failure. Byron Madge, infirm of purpose, and easily reconciled to the present scene, whatever it was, began soon to talk with her usual diffuseness of ideas. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 It is marked by his characteristic diffuseness, abundance, melody. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 For 'lambiner,' to dally or loiter over a task, they are indebted to Denis Lambin, a worthy Greek scholar of the sixteenth century, but accused of sluggish movement and wearisome diffuseness in style. On the Study of Words Both suffer from diffuseness, Whittier in his greatest poems less than Longfellow. History of American Literature Their immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie, or the desert, and their incongruities are like the last deliration. Representative Men Klopstock, in the first cantos of "The Messiah," is not without diffuseness: in his "Odes" and other minor poems he appears compressed, as also in his tragedies. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Impatience, rudeness, indecision, and diffuseness blur communication by telephone even more than they do when one is face to face with the person talking. Nerves and Common Sense But its colour and poesy do not compensate for the diffuseness of the plot and the undramatic conclusion. Balzac If we are doing so, we might urge extenuating circumstances, which will explain, though they may not excuse, our diffuseness. Rejected Addresses To avoid diffuseness, I can for today only state a couple of points. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso It is the story of the Prince and the Lamia in the Book of Sindibad wherein it is given with Persian rhetoric and diffuseness. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 There is in his work a tendency towards diffuseness which goes with his talent in improvisation mentioned by Cicero. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Such people miss the pretty, pleasant relaxing joys of life, but they gain in intensity of life what they lose in diffuseness. The Foundations of Personality He addressed himself to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was "very glad;" but diffuseness and warmth remained for Bingley's salutation. Pride and Prejudice He does not fail to call attention to trite similes, worn collocations of sound, and commonplace sentiments; and also his diffuseness, principally originating in a lavishness and looseness of adjectives. A Biography of Sidney Lanier |
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