| 单词 | facts of life |
| 例句 | I don't know whether or not I know the facts of life. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Just find out what her dreams are and so on. Explain the facts of life. But not too much of Freud.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Police supervision, monitoring, and harassment are facts of life not only for all those labeled criminals, but for all those who “look like” criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Then he said, without looking up: 'You are familiar, I take it, with the facts of life.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In a sense, we shall be obliged to swing back again, still believing in the new way but constrained by the facts of life to live in the old. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As I worked I listened to their talk and perceived its puzzled, wandering, superficial fumbling with the problems and facts of life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Accordingly, Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z There are neural centers for generating, spontaneously, numberless hypotheses about the facts of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z No, he did not, and his lack of adherence to the facts of life has now been uncovered by a group of physics students from Leicester University. Think again, Roald Dahl: scientists hit on giant peach of a theory 2013-01-04T14:40:01Z Ever-present throughout “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America” is the blues ethos of stating and confronting the brutal facts of life and of placing a high premium on style, improvisation and excellence. Kiese Laymon Revisits Some Early Essays, and Reclaims His Voice 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z This feature is the impeachment of my realism, the challenging of the facts of life as put down by me in that story. Peeved, Irritated and Annoyed: Early Letters to the Editor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The response they got suggests that girls discover the facts of life from movies, TV shows and books ranging from Sex and the City to Dirty Dancing to author Judy Blume. #Popsexed: What We Learn About Sex From Pop Culture 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z These were facts of life not only in the Jim Crow South, but in all parts of the country, where black travelers never knew where they would be welcome. Recalling ?Green Book,? Guide for Black Travelers 2010-08-22T22:00:00Z She called me a food snob and then lectured me on the 'facts of life is not everyone can cook as well as you do.' The Ice Cream Sundae Must Be Stopped 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z We sometimes go to the movies to be confronted with painful facts of life. Critic?s Notebook: Hiding Up in Telluride, Silver Mined on Screens 2011-09-05T22:03:11Z In Sam’s world, these aren’t so much sacrifices of single motherhood as the facts of life. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z A: You’ve hit on one of the facts of life today: Some home repairs are too small for a professional to want to take on, especially when construction is booming. How can I fill the holes in the bricks on my house? 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z All that started to change in middle school, where social currency is made and spent and where cruelty and fear become daily facts of life. How Does a Novelist Write About a School Shooting? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Crime, violence and incarceration are facts of life, but no life can ever be the sum of such facts. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z But unlike in other shows, here the quests for sustenance are presented merely as facts of life. Review: ‘The Last Alaskans,’ a New Animal Planet Series 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The office manager told me that my uncle was very, very upset and that he was going to give me a lesson in the facts of life. Billionaire Highway Man: Life Lessons Dennis Washington Learned When He Was 25 2013-06-04T14:07:51Z Filmed entirely on location in Northern Ireland, the film is set in 1970s Belfast and follows two young boys who discover the facts of life, aided by the help of their pet chickens. Birdman and Budapest top Oscar list 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z What emerges is almost a joking definition of consciousness: the facts of life exist, in a jumble, and this book is content to perform awareness of them. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z But that's not to say I wouldn't write about such things because they are facts of life today, whether I like it or not. Jacqueline Wilson: 'I just try to reflect what life can be like' 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z “Hidden Figures” takes us back to 1961, when racial segregation and workplace sexism were widely accepted facts of life and the word “computer” referred to a person, not a machine. Review: ‘Hidden Figures’ Honors 3 Black Women Who Helped NASA Soar 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z These were until very recently understood as basic facts of life by almost everyone. Judge rules against researcher who lost job over transgender tweets 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Its events seem to take place inside a terrarium: an environment where the biological facts of life and death are on display for the cool connoisseur. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z Her art is close to the facts of life. Sarah Lucas: tights, melons and concrete pies 2012-07-18T17:30:03Z Terrorism and surveillance are treated both as facts of life and as vaporous abstractions. Review: In ‘Jason Bourne,’ a Midlife Crisis for a Harried Former Assassin 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z And if your husband, or your stepdaughter’s mother, asks that you censor yourself on the facts of life? Motherlode Blog: Talking With a Stepdaughter About Puberty Without Rocking the Boat 2012-05-24T19:56:36Z Intentionally or not, artists in every form and style draw on and refashion the facts of life that surround them, and the resulting work takes its place among those facts. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Lucas, too, transforms the body, but in ways that always point back, with harsh humour, towards the unvarnished facts of life. Sarah Lucas is far better than Moore and Hepworth 2013-07-01T14:54:36Z It’s a theme Gordimer returned to again and again: the challenge of responding to the hardest facts of life. Nadine Gordimer in The New Yorker 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Don’t argue with someone about their experience; they’re reporting the vicious facts of life as lived by them. On ‘Couples Therapy,’ Domestic Angst is Raw and Delicious 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “He’s reporting the vicious facts of life as lived by him.” On ‘Couples Therapy,’ Domestic Angst is Raw and Delicious 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z I was truly miserable in New Orleans, which is rotted through with two of the facts of life I find most unbearable: Public corruption and humidity. The show I never wanted to watch, until I had to 2011-04-29T18:20:00Z Acknowledge it’s bad, and other facts of life. There’s no avoiding it: On Jan. 20, there’s an administration coming into office that fills a lot of creative people with despair. John Scalzi's 10-point plan for getting creative work done in the time of Trump 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Above all, he understood the existential facts of life – that all of us live between a past that is constantly slipping away and a future in which we shall die. Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin – review 2013-06-27T07:00:18Z In Lawrence’s paintings, ugliness and danger are inescapable — facts of life for black Americans in both the South and the North. Review: Finding the Beat and Pulse of the Great Migration 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z One of the hazardous facts of life for a film composer is that the music is usually the final element to be realised. What I'm thinking about ... conducting Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey 2013-03-06T13:28:05Z “Biutiful” certainly looks real, and it rubs your face in all kinds of harsh facts of life, from mental illness to poverty to the fatal effects of cheap space heaters operating in poorly ventilated rooms. Movie Review: The Mob Work Is Tough; Then He Has to Go Home 2010-12-28T22:45:33Z As the hours roll by, the facts of life in the show’s near-future Los Angeles remain vague. Review: In ‘Colony,’ on USA, Los Angeles Is Occupied 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z So the salient question might not be, “What is a documentary?” — an abstract, theoretical approach to a form that is grounded in the concrete facts of life. Film: Documentaries (in Name Only) of Every Stripe 2010-10-13T18:08:00Z “Empire of Light” has a sad story to tell, one that touches on mental illness, sexual exploitation, racist violence and other grim facts of life. ‘Empire of Light’ Review: They Found It at the Movies 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Even embodied by the resourceful Mr. Greenspan, a miming king is a wearisome thing, especially when he is required to explain the facts of life to his son via charades. Review: In ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ Jackie Hoffman as Paradoxical Charmer 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z After hearing the late CBS basketball commentator Billy Packer admonish college coaches to recognize the hot hand phenomenon, a friend of mine sent him my textbook summary of Gilovich’s team’s facts of life. Your Brain Looks for ‘Winning Streaks’ Everywhere—Here's Why 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z “Something that happens to you, when you have some sort of disability that changes your awareness, that changes your interaction with facts of life,” Simon said, reflecting on his hearing loss. Paul Simon is beginning to accept the hearing loss that makes it difficult for him to perform 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s just me, but I’m not sure these qualify as the most basic facts of life. Read The Times' scathing, prescient review of Michael Lewis' 'The Blind Side' 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z “I know firsthand the challenges of providing care to loved ones while trying to manage all the unexpected ups and downs that are simply facts of life,” she previously wrote in a newspaper op-ed. Workers in Maine will get paid time off starting in 2026, as governor signs budget 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Beyond the refreshers on the facts of life, virgin chicken wranglers are being hit with the realization that keeping chickens takes hard work. Perspective | Virgin chicken wranglers, tired of pricey eggs, are snatching up birds 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z In Buffalo — where frigid temperatures and burrowing through snowstorms are facts of life — the National Weather Service described the coming event as a “once-in-a-generation storm.” As Forecasts Grow Ominous, Winter Storm Forces Millions to Brace for the Worst 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z TikTok’s ability to make anyone go viral overnight, they say, has meant that the anger and pressure once endured mostly by big influencers have become facts of life for the masses. How TikTok ate the internet We lived on Lake Eloise across from Cypress Gardens so, of course, we skied until we dropped, hopefully well clear of the gators and water moccasins that were facts of life in still-wild Central Florida. Opinion | This is already a summer I’d like to forget 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Its existence is one of the most basic facts of life: The snow falls, the sun shines, the seasons turn, the Earth spins. Why Do We Watch the Weather on TV While It Is Happening Just Outside? 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The facts of life in world politics make relations with these governments necessary. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaine said Democrats were “delivered a message about the facts of life” from a GOP senator he declined to name. Why Democrats spent a year on a failed voting rights push 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “We got delivered a message about the facts of life,” Kaine told reporters Thursday, explaining the message Republicans told him months ago about how McConnell has only two major issues he cares about. Analysis | Kyrsten Sinema preempts Biden, dashing Democrats’ illogical hopes she would move on the filibuster 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z For example - a feast now and a slim body tomorrow; a trinket today and sufficient funds when the rent is due; a night of passion and the facts of life nine months later. Three ways to be more rational this year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Unpredictable weather, unstable landscapes and collapsing ecosystems are becoming facts of life in communities around the globe. Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z People can grasp the innate humanity of even this tiny being, but they must hear the facts of life in a patient and compassionate way. Opinion | Overturning ‘Roe’ would be the easy part for the pro-life movement 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z And like Sawyer, she says the solutions already exist in the creative ways Lagosians have adapted to a city where traffic and face-me-I-face-you are facts of life. Africa’s rising cities Crop yields would decline, water would become scarce, and displacement would become facts of life for millions of people. Despite COP26 pledges, world still on track for dire warming 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Crop yields would decline, water would become scarce, death and displacement would become facts of life for millions of people. Despite net-zero pledges, world on track to warm 2.5 degrees Celsius, U.N. report says 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z As the world re-connects, four trends seem inescapable facts of life: Technology continues to accelerate. Opinion | The world economy is slowly rebounding. But challenges still lie ahead. 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Suffering and death are facts of life; focusing only on the “bright and shiny” is superficial and inauthentic. Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z But the facts of life are mostly absent from those journal pages. The Oldest Productivity Trick Around 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z He was inspired by Henry David Thoreau’s famous experiment, documented in the 1854 book “Walden,” of confronting “only the essential facts of life,” by moving to a log cabin in the woods. The Carpenter Who Built Tiny Homes for Toronto’s Homeless 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z In Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and Syria, dictatorships thought to be impregnable facts of life for their longsuffering citizens were suddenly exposed as vulnerable husks. 10 years on, the Arab spring's explosive rage and dashed dreams 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The hard truth is that human beings are destined to learn again and again the facts of life as individuals and as a nation. Believe in America 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “Those are just seen as unfortunate facts of life.” Black doctors on the frontlines of the pandemic join protests to fight racism 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z It is why, no matter who serves as chief of staff, the lack of formal processes and the constant infighting are unavoidable facts of life for those working for Mr. Trump. For Mark Meadows, Transition From Trump Confidant to Chief of Staff Is a Hard One 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z As Boorstin put it, they give rise to a "thicket of unreality that stands between us and the facts of life." How "historic" are we? 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z It is one of those facts of life that we learn early and don’t forget: normal body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Are Human Body Temperatures Cooling Down? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z In his case, he cites Murray’s description of the blues as “accepting the difficult, disappointing, chaotic, absurd, which is to say the farcical or existential facts of life.” Review | A black writer on individualism, identity and indifference in Trump’s America 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z To be broken and to talk about facts of life ... somewhere in there, they do really fall for each other in a friendship. Is Christina Applegate's 'Dead to Me' a comedy, drama or mystery? Yes. 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Panic buttons, elaborate locks, bodyguards: these are the awful facts of life for female public figures. Whose side is Twitter on: misogynists or women in public life? | Suzanne Moore 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z A few more such glimpses and something like "the facts of life" to which Boorstin alluded so long ago might become impossible to hide any longer. How "historic" are we? 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z And when they’re being played on the biggest stages, those facts of life are placed out there on vivid, often heart-wrenching display. Tough calls prove again that sports aren’t perfectly fair 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z But many Snake dwellers sense a disconnect between demands to breach the dams and the more-complicated facts of life in their own backyard. Breaching Snake River dams could save salmon and orcas, but destroy livelihoods 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z These are the facts of life for many of us, but we are dismissed as night owls and increasingly encouraged to change our circadian rhythms to some loathsome presbyterian ideal. No, I won't go to bed. Early nights are for losers | Suzanne Moore 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “She taught me the facts of life,” Mrs. Charles said years later in an interview for photographer Bruce Weber’s “All-American” arts journal series. Marion ‘Oatsie’ Charles, grande dame of Georgetown-Newport social circuit, dies at 99 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Mother and daughter conferred only briefly and abruptly about such facts of life. “Cecilia Awakened” 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Specifically: What “facts of life” known to many of us lifers are unknown to newcomers? The Backstory: the story behind ‘Passing the Peace Torch’ 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z It is a universe of in-betweenness, in which the most basic facts of life, the things we absolutely expect to understand, spill and scatter like toast crumbs into the gaps between the floorboards. New Sentences: From Keith Gessen’s ‘A Terrible Country’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z He has made it clear for some time that tyranny and state violence are simple facts of life, with which he has no problem. A new axis of evil? Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin share an open contempt for human rights 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z “You didn’t create this situation. You do what you can for this lady, but that’s it. You can’t change the facts of life.” “The First World” 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z These are just the facts of life under protectionism. Opinion | A dispute over tariffs on newsprint is costing journalists their jobs 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Of Lydgate, she writes: “Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.” Middlemarch: Jennifer Egan on how George Eliot’s unorthodox love life shaped her masterpiece 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z “I’m sorry for this inconvenience; this sort of thing is rapidly becoming one of the unpleasant facts of life,” his email concluded. Phil Bredesen, ex-Tennessee governor, fears Senate campaign hacked amid concerns of midterm meddling 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z I wish everyone could understand these basic facts of life. The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z Perhaps the voters in Kruse’s district - which includes a small portion of northwestern Jackson County - will explain the facts of life to him at his next election. Editorials from around Oregon 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z We need bold scientists ready to state unapologetically that evolution, global warming — and, yes, even a round Earth — are facts of life. Keep on marching for science education 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z In many industries, this cycle is just the facts of life. Editorials from around Ohio 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Interestingly enough, poverty is one of those issues, policies, facts of life we really and truly do not like discussing. Fight poverty for Americans’ and America’s sake 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Those are the facts of life for United, perhaps for any top side. Manchester United heal wounds against City and hint at a healthier future | Paul Wilson 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Until recently these issues were simply facts of life, so omnipresent that racial inequality passes for the norm for both Republicans and Democrats. Why should we trust you? Hillary's big problem with young black Americans 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z But many Americans wrongly perceive their country’s democratic features as inviolable facts of life, she warned, when they are actually only as strong as the institutions and norms that uphold them. Trump’s Waves of Bluster Against Clinton Erode Democracy, Experts Say 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Other medical facts of life in besieged Aleppo: Syria conflict: Life under siege in rebel-held Aleppo - BBC News 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z The Cold War and the Soviet Union were seemingly immovable facts of life back then. EU referendum: Did 1975 predictions come true? - BBC News 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Reichhardt talks about hardcore’s temporary essence as if he’s talking about the facts of life. This is harDCore 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z You cannot shake up the world without treating what most people regard as facts of life as “problems to be solved”. Crazy diamonds 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z This no-nonsense acceptance of the facts of life was at the very heart of what made Paris the city of modern art’s birth. No sex in this city: the bare-faced cheek of Paris's most sensual museum 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z It seems almost like a law of nature: the earth circles the sun; gravity pulls objects down; and narcotics are illegal—facts of life, pure and simple. How the Mexican Drug Trade First Began 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Either way, they have a time-tested opportunity to learn enduring lessons about the facts of life, living and staying alive. Spokane Mountaineers mark a century of outdoor pursuits 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z One of the most outrageous economics facts of life is the engorgement of too-big-to-fail banks. 10 stunning economic figures powering the Sanders insurgency 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z They “are facts of life and part of our creative lives,” she writes. The book that will have everyone talking about how we never talk anymore 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z So, given these facts of life, is this a useful way to frame the problem? Be Risk-Savvy 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Unlike two decades ago - a seedier era when junkies, hookers and bar fights still were facts of life - Times Square is one of the safest spots in the city. Plainclothes cops keep eye out for Times Square hustlers 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Unlike two decades ago — a seedier era when junkies, hookers and bar fights still were facts of life — Times Square is one of the safest spots in the city. In summer of topless women, plainclothes cops keep eye out for Times Square street hustlers 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z “The overspending, the overreaching, the arrogance, and the sheer incompetence in that city – these problems have been with us so long that they are sometimes accepted as facts of life,” Bush said. Jeb Bush: McCain is a 'real hero, by the way...' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But if Walter White was a “Negro by choice,” it wasn’t a choice made arbitrarily—and his first-hand knowledge of the facts of life for African Americans was personal, deep and real. The Surprising Story of Walter White and the NAACP 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z His argument was that the facts of life are different for small companies than for big ones. Orexigen CEO Pledged To Keep Data Secret, But Not From Himself 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z This veteran singer, songwriter, bluegrass maestro and Merle Haggard tour-buddy presents himself as a traditionalist concerned with the more brutal facts of life. The month’s best music — Young Thug, High Risk, Speedy Ortiz and more 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z National health care and government-funded abortions are facts of life in the Jewish State. Netanyahu's American opponent 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z So, we must remember this, the simple facts of life are always subject to revision in our memories. Time can change our memories, as NBC’s Brian Williams knows 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z It revealed bruising battles to persuade colleagues and union leaders to recognise the economic facts of life, and was eagerly quoted by the Tories, it added. The ex-MPs who died in 2014 - part one 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Surveillance and anxieties about being watched were becoming facts of life, and the “fear of secrecy and hiddenness was most obsessively expressed in regard to Jews.” Book review: ‘Dark Mirror,’ on origins of anti-Jewish iconography, by Sara Lipton 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Instead, we consider flu fatalities to be one of those unfortunate facts of life. Ebola, Enterovirus, and the Flu 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Disparities between the percentage of black residents and the number of black elected officials are facts of life in scores of American cities, particularly in the South. Mostly Black Cities, Mostly White City Halls 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z This is about the facts of life: 3- and 4-year-olds are too young for the rigors of a public schoolhouse. SIMMONS: Surprise! Schools kick out toddlers 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Such are the facts of life for a Democrat running in a deep red part corner of the state. High stakes in southwest senate election 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z “There is another equally critical time in your kids’ lives when you need to sit them down to talk about the facts of life — discomfort notwithstanding,” Prosch writes. Dirty Dollars: That paper money is teeming with germs 2014-04-24T15:51:25Z These are the facts of life to which Mr. Duncan referred. Your Money: Sidestepping the Risk of Credit and Debit Card Fraud 2014-02-07T16:01:01Z “I told him the facts of life from the Capitals’ point of view, from my point of view,” Oates said. Capitals bolster center depth, sign Mikhail Grabovski 2013-08-24T01:14:00Z He says it with the thoughtfulness of a man who has been in the trade all his life, who knows there are certain facts of life that must not be avoided. Why worrying about food miles is missing the point 2013-05-25T23:05:21Z But the flip side of that is that things you don’t like about Facebook may also be less than permanent facts of life. Harry McCracken: How Facebook Ruined Comments for Me 2013-05-13T16:05:28Z Cattle rustling and livestock theft are dangerous, stubbornly ingrained facts of life for many young men in northern Kenya who see such raids as a badge of honor. Kenyan Officers Killed in Attack by Cattle Rustlers 2012-11-13T04:18:36Z As Matthew Perrone notes, “Bladder problems, brittle bones and hot flashes have followed a similar path: from inconvenient facts of life, to ailments that can be treated with drugs.” Drugs in Search of a Disease-Men s Edition 2012-09-13T20:15:00.393Z Bladder problems, brittle bones and hot flashes have followed a similar path: from inconvenient facts of life, to ailments that can be treated with drugs. Testosterone marketing frenzy draws skepticism 2012-09-09T18:46:04Z “Sleep is one of those important facts of life,” Alletto says. How I Perfected the Hi-Tech Bed 2012-06-11T21:00:22Z That softer doctrine of the Gospel, with its soothingly mystical miracles of forgiveness, was not substantial enough for the stern facts of life. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z We judge others by the facts of life—by what we hear them say and see them do. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z He was not equal to the hard facts of life. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z It is because they have been blind to the elemental facts of life. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z But it is awaking to self-activity: it is emerging to Consciousness,—to distinguish itself, as aware and conscious, from the facts of life and sentiency of which it is aware. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z It gave biology a fresh start by displaying the facts of life and the inductions from these for the first time clearly in the light of evolution. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z These were the only realities, the abiding, the menacing facts of life. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z As regards the facts of life, by which I mean the physiological facts about which there is so much needless and vain concealment, there is, it seems to me, only one rule. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z The book's cover states it is "the facts of life without any nonsense". 'Ban' for Mayle book in Malaysia 2012-02-21T15:14:22Z By raw material I mean those facts of life which give birth to narrative ideas. How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction 2012-02-17T03:00:36.070Z The facts of life had shaken his intellectual structure until he was prepared to understand. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z The second class take into account the nature of human beings, their own experience, and the facts of life, as they know them. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Which do you think I should try to explain first — the facts of life, the vastness of the universe or Stephen A. Smith? Super Bowl 2012, brought to you by the Couch Slouch 2012-02-06T03:58:00Z Dependency and disability still confront us as facts of life. Opinion: Bargaining for a Child?s Love 2012-01-14T23:25:53Z One of the most striking facts of life in countries without a modern financial system is the near total absence of upward mobility. It?s the Economy: What Does Wall Street Do for You? 2012-01-11T14:18:19Z Why not we, who last so short a time—why not drift on with it, and take the blows that come, and suffer and enjoy the facts of life, and leave its dreadful dreams untried? Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z He never shirked the hard and dismaying facts of life. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Still it must be very nice to own a mind like Ginger's, which could weave such fantasy about the facts of life. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z It does not correspond to the simple facts of life. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z Many of the facts of life are fixed for all practical purposes—the purposes not merely of your life and my life, but the life of many generations. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z In like manner the strange, stern facts of life fought now for Kenneth Blair. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z A sweeter little romance has just ended in Paris than any I can ever make; and the sad facts of life leave me no heart for cheerful fiction. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z The elements which the abstract theories suppress persist, under the guise of economic value itself, in the facts of life, and take their vengeance on the theory by forcing it into a circle. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z I doubt still if the rude facts of life will not be too great a shock for you to face. Carlyon Sahib 2011-10-23T02:00:21.590Z Let us face the facts of life, and admit that man is a physical animal, and cannot do any sane and constructive thinking until he has food and shelter provided. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z They were back at first principles and the elementary facts of life. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z It must indeed be a theory opposed to the facts of life. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z Hasn't anybody taken the trouble to tell you two any of the facts of life? The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Great numbers of thoughtful people are just now much perplexed to know what to make of the facts of life, and are looking around them for some reasonable interpretation of the modern world. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z On the other hand, a great many Anarchists have suddenly found themselves compelled by the Russian situation to face the facts of life. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z To read wrong meanings into the facts of life, and then to declare that the facts cease to exist if the meanings are corrected, is unphilosophical petulance. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z Today, Nokia announced three new Symbian models that are likely going to raise questions about whether a fading champion is refusing to face the facts of life. Is Nokia Having a Norma Desmond Moment? 2011-08-24T19:03:40Z He had all the stuff in him that was in his ancestors,—those early pioneers who were momentarily up against the grim facts of life. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z As players across the region prepare for their upcoming seasons, tackling and hitting in two practices over one day are facts of life. Despite NFL limits, high school football programs continue two-a-day tradition 2011-08-22T00:44:09Z You are, let us say, the mother of a boy of eighteen, and you have what you call "common sense"—meaning thereby a grasp of the money facts of life. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z "Cinema," he said, "was the perfect medium to tell the facts of life," and he'd tell them all. Provocateur Gualtiero Jacopetti Dead at 91: Honoring the Man Behind the Mondo Movies 2011-08-21T05:10:00Z And in this Venetian night, an hour after the coffee, we were in the mood of men who feel that they are soon to return to the cold hard facts of life. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z In her own line Mrs. Blundell is inimitable, but here she is just one of a hundred or a thousand whose fiction seems trivial beside the facts of life and death. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 2011-08-09T02:00:23.527Z That is why you go off in search of Raoul Ruiz, for whom the mysteries of cinema are also the facts of life. A Mild-Mannered Maniac 2011-07-29T20:15:26Z If we cannot justify monogamy by the facts of life, we shall declare ourselves for polygamy. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Pursue alternate paths on “facts of life” and opportunities. 9 Steps to Effective Problem Solving 2011-07-26T21:45:00Z IV But there is no denying that the imperative operatic convention requires us to admit a very violent departure from the facts of life as we all know them. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z They are summaries of the reasons that men give to explain those facts of life which are religion, just as philosophies are summaries of the theories men make to explain other facts of life. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z In the past much of so-called religion has seemed to thoughtful minds remote from the facts of life, unreal, a bit queer if not abnormal. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z Statistical inquiry into the facts of life has long been employed, and in particular Francis Galton, within the Darwinian period, has advocated its employment and developed its methods. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z He continued: "I'm sorry, I don't like saying these things because it sounds like I'm sexist, but it's the facts of life." NZ menstruation-row boss sacked 2011-07-06T09:23:51Z That is easier said than done when young athletes are restless and rich, though as Jackson would know, it does help if they are told the facts of life along the way. A Broadcaster Turned Coach, Jackson Still Talks the Talk 2011-06-29T17:06:42Z Was he ignorant of the facts of life? Nature and the Gods From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures 2011-05-31T02:00:33.907Z Often the very commonest facts of life are not facts, only sounds, until they have been lived. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Enough, however, has already been done to show the vast importance of the method in grouping and codifying the empirical facts of life, and in so preparing the way for the investigation of ultimate “causes.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z O men, you who shut your eyes to the stern and awful facts of life, and rhapsodize over your fine-spun theories, what will you say when the Lord maketh inquisition for blood? A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z He had nothing to do with the domestic facts of life. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z One of the new facts of life in post-Mubarak Egypt is that so far, the Muslim Brothers are the revolution's biggest winners. Post-revolution blues 2011-05-12T10:18:31Z Dolly, unused to the ways of the world, had not yet appreciated those refinements of delicacy with which people envelop the simplest facts of life. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Bob Nations, Shelby County Emergency Management director in Tennessee, said high water and a "hazardous environment" are going to be facts of life in Memphis for some time. Mississippi River flood passes record at Natchez 2011-05-12T01:19:12Z The Florentine playwright adheres to the material facts of life, and takes a childish pleasure in passing the splendors of kings and princes in review. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Such an hypothesis, however, is utterly inadequate as an explanation of the facts of life and consciousness. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z To him this was all one nothingness, and he would not have dreamed of connecting anything of it with the facts of life, as he understood life. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Such delight the artist can never communicate by the display of a callous and pedantic impartiality in presence of the facts of life and nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Stolen passwords and hackers are facts of life in the Internet Age. Hacker vs. Hacker 2011-03-10T22:00:00Z And she was at last in that stage of development wherein one accepts the facts of life with little or no personal application. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z The facts of life and history are distorted and discolored. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z For an abstract thinker he was strangely in love with the concrete facts of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z As an imitator or evoker of the facts of life and nature, the artist must recognize and accept the character of those facts with which he has in any given case to deal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The result will be that while the doctrines are apparently being brought into closer correspondence with the facts of life, they will in reality be made quite useless for practical purposes or economic investigation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z What was the value of that, even,—of all his wealth,—compared to the great primeval facts of life? The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z Early-warning systems and other initiatives to adapt to GLOFs are essential facts of life for countries with high mountain glaciers in the decades ahead. Lakes Disappearing After Glacial Outburst Floods 2011-01-01T13:00:00Z Healthy, but somewhat startling too, this determination to face the facts of life in defiance of old traditions. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z These are the facts of life: there are two games remaining, you win this weekend and we’re in the playoffs. The Fifth Down: Tom Coughlin Sat in Dark Room After Defeat 2010-12-21T12:47:12Z In the Republic and the Laws, Plato shows to what extreme lengths theory may go when it neglects to take account of some of the most pertinent facts of life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z "The facts of life presented in an interesting form are far more important to boys and girls than a knowledge of—let us say—geography." The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Any hope of cutting the mounting government deficits requires an open discussion of common national priorities and the fiscal facts of life. Aquila: The Real 'Truth' About Debt and Taxes 2010-12-09T00:59:00Z Residents say the randomness of the attacks is one of the most disturbing facts of life in a city struggling to return to normal. Iraqis on edge as rocket attacks intensify 2010-10-08T13:43:00Z They reflect Iraqis’ shared history — both proud and painful facts of life here in the capital. Proud, Painful Art on Baghdad's Blast Walls 2010-06-11T16:42:00Z But it doesn't erase the transatlantic facts of life. 2010-02-13T00:01:00Z Apparitions became the commonest facts of life, and only the hardiest minds remained incredulous about them. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Social problems are discreetly shelved by Acts of Parliament, and the facts of life delicately obscured by a literature unique in its emasculation. The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin He will not be admitted with freedom into the retirements of domestic life; the instructive commentary on all the facts of life,—discourse,—will be of a slight and superficial character. How to Observe Morals and Manners The facts of life which surrounded them were often in cutting contrast to their ideal requirements. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. A feeling of hopelessness, of inability to grapple with the facts of life seized him. Sinister Street, vol. 1 But the vision is constantly crossed and darkened by doubts which are raised by the terrible facts of life. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It leaves the wise estimate of good and evil to be learned through a closer study of the facts of life. The Sources Of Religious Insight They are a mirror of life itself, and the inner and outer facts of life in all their diversity. Maxims and Reflections This sense of beauty—call it taste—demands positively a readjustment of the external facts of life, so that all angles, all suffering and violence, shall cease. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Frankness, outspokenness on the primal facts of life are to be welcomed in literature. The Vagabond in Literature Confronted with the facts of life, and fired with a passion to win men to a higher law, the later Stoicism had in some points to soften the rigid lines of earlier theory. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Does the teaching of this allegory, then, accord with the facts of life as we know them? The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II Stupidity of the kind I mean is really an ingeniously built castle with moat and drawbridge to guard against the entrance of the facts of life—at least, of the disagreeable facts of life. The Book of This and That Economic motive is one of the obvious facts of life. American World Policies The reader, unless of the very lowest order of intellect, does not want in a novel a mere reproduction of the facts of life, still less a mere scientific reference of them to causes. A Short History of French Literature He must in other words clothe his dummies with the semblance of reality, and for that he must turn to the facts of life, as he has observed them. A Modern Wizard Woman of twenty-six though she was, Katrine was curiously limited in her ideas on the great facts of life. An Unknown Lover Men of sense want something more thoughtful, more in accordance with the facts of life, and the young are driven to the other extreme. The Religious Life of London Like the religious and emotional pacifism which preceded it, this rationalistic pacifism broke down through its sheer inapplicability to the facts of life. American World Policies Benson did his best to keep his colony from going native, but what can you do when the Natives have a rare human intelligence and know all about the facts of life? The Test Colony Maybe your mom didn't give you the facts of life! "And That's How It Was, Officer" He might be little good at pretending, but in grappling with the stern facts of life he had no equal. The Golden Age When God is thought of as a tender-hearted and perfect gentleman, the question of evil takes the following form: Can we harmonize this conception with the facts of life? The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Anarchism is certainly one of the greatest errors ever imagined by man, for it proceeds from assumptions and leads to conclusions which entirely contradict human nature and the facts of life. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory "Did you think we do not know about—" he paused to dredge among his amazing store of human idioms, "—the facts of life?" The Test Colony This outlook is lofty and significant, it supplies a guiding clue by which the facts of life and nature can be arranged. Naturalism And Religion Then I learned how his quick imagination transfigured the hard, bare facts of life into new and living dreams. Optimism An Essay You might as well learn the hard facts of life. The House from Nowhere Like most women she did not entertain with regard to certain ugly facts of life the physical and moral disgust which upset the young fellow. Pierre and Luce And while chivalry committed suicide over its ladies' gloves, the stout, wooden-headed burghers, with an eye to the facts of life, dickered and bickered in trade. The Kempton-Wace Letters Perhaps it's because they're used to the plain facts of life, death, birth, madness, suicide. Old Crow Of course, this does not mean that sex, either as a word or as a fact of nature, should be over-emphasized with people who are too young to appreciate the fundamental facts of life. Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life On the Catholic side is faith, rigidly logical as Ultramontanism, with a proportion of the facts of life, that is, all that is despairing in life coming naturally under its formula. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century They have no diffidence before the great facts of life. Aliens And that is one of the most serious and most blessed facts of life. Anxious Audrey We cannot observe the true, actual facts of life by coloring our subject. Tyranny of God Such are the questions which rush into the minds of those who have studied the problem of keeping children ignorant of the most significant facts of life. Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is, of course, a thoroughly true story, even though its incidents are contrary to the actual facts of life. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews Am I to adopt that modesty which is doubtless becoming in a duke? or to take hold of the red facts of life with the emphasis of the tradesman and the poet?” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) It was one of the large impersonal facts of life, outside her control, that she accepted without criticism. Clark's Field I have in nearly all my works been trying one racket: to get out the facts of life as clean and naked and sharp as I could manage it. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) On the contrary, there has been universal mystery and evasion concerning the greatest facts of life. Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life Love is just a glittering illusion with which we gild the hard, cold facts of life—until all the world seems bright and shining! A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Has science the knowledge or the ability to deal with the extraordinary as well as with the ordinary facts of life? Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development She was becoming a perfect small realist, content to take the facts of life for what they seemed. Clark's Field “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is, of course, a thoroughly true story, even though its incidents are contrary to the actual facts of life. A Manual of the Art of Fiction In another lecture we shall consider moral teaching, but here let us look at the cold facts of life that ought to be taught at some appropriate time to young people. Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life The deeper we look into the facts of life the more unsatisfactory does the theory of special creation become because we find a thousand things that contradict it and show its inconsistency. Elementary Theosophy The facts of life are expressed in terms of supernaturalism. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Adelle, as has been sufficiently indicated, absorbed passively the small and the large facts of life. Clark's Field Its contemplative placidity might have been inviting another sad and wise old woman to recognize these facts of life with her. Tante The dear old face that had confronted life vicariously flushed gently; but the young face that had set itself to the stern facts of life showed neither weakness nor doubt. At the Crossroads The criminal and the idiot are striking illustrations of the failure of the theory of special creation to satisfactorily explain the facts of life. Elementary Theosophy Jesus often boldly took his illustrations from the facts of life even when they were repellent to him. The Social Principles of Jesus They tried to discover the truth about things, to shed their prejudices and to see the facts of life exactly as they were. Changing Winds A Novel Such is the type of womanhood that an enlightened public sentiment welcomes to-day, and such the triumph of the facts of life over the false theories of the past. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV “You’re a real idealist, Miss Heathcote; most ladies are, some men are, too, until they have to handle the ugly facts of life.” At the Crossroads Intuitively we know that any belief that is not in harmony with the facts of life is a wrong belief. Elementary Theosophy This theory of life does not rest upon speculation however, it is one of the first facts of life demonstrated to the pupil of a Mystery school. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings It is simply because their bringing-up has consisted in a persistent inoculation with the material facts of life, and a correspondingly persistent elimination of all imaginative ideas. The Curse of Education But my philosophy, my observation, and my experience teach me that the wise man makes the best of things as they are, accepts the facts of life, and does what he can. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue They confuse facts and truth, and forget that there is a world of truth that is larger than the mere facts of life, being compact of imagination and vision and ideals. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales But is it not clear to common observation, that this threefold classification meets the facts of life better than the other? Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors A little reflection upon the subject will make clear that just such a constitution is necessary to account for facts of life as we see them. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings He liked to invert the so-called facts of life, to propound its paradoxes, and watch how the child's budding mind took them. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel The facts of life are the same upon any theory; but atheism makes the case utterly hopeless. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice They consist of fancies that have illumined the hard facts of life. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales It is more human, more rational, connected more with real experience and the solid facts of life. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors But that is not a sufficient explanation to account for all facts of life. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings Still further they plodded, he unfolding the simple facts of life, she wondering with the wide wonder of a child. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel A novel should be a serious attempt by a grave observer to draw a faithful portrait of the actual facts of life. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice So utterly did she desire the Sons of God should come to the daughters of men; and she believed more in her desire and its fulfilment than in the obvious facts of life. The Rainbow The Reader can now decide for himself how far this second conceivable view would fit in with the facts of life. Symbolic Logic Every generation has its own notion of the values of life, and every generation has to have its own interpretation of the facts of life. Introduction to the Science of Sociology None of them accept the domination of men in theory, so I think that the facts of life in their own country must often be unpleasantly forced on them. Home Life in Germany Its spirit might be, in a sense, beautiful; but it would not fit the facts of life. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice It accepted the facts of life, and one of these facts was that we were responsible for the Empire, and, whether we liked it or not, we had to rule that Empire. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Whether you succeed or fail depends altogether upon your own attitude toward the external facts of life. Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency They simply accepted the powers of talkers as one of the facts of life. Deathworld Conscious of high thoughts and just desires, but with no gift of practical insight, he is ill fitted to "grind among the iron facts of life." The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar For it takes a vast deal of imagination to embrace the ordinary facts of life and human nature. The Invader A Novel When you talk, gentlemen, of sheltering woman from the rough winds and revolting scenes of real life, you must be either talking for effect, or wholly ignorant of what the facts of life are. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I The chemistry and physics of living matter are being sketched, and biologists are more and more inclined to study the mechanical expression of the facts of life. Progress and History She realized, on the instant, that her desire must be defeated by the facts of life. Making People Happy Here, and perhaps here only—certainly here in transcendence—Balzac grapples with, and vanquishes, the bare, stern, unadorned, unbaited, ironic facts of life. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Such regulations dealt with fundamental facts of life, which in the beginnings of society are mostly physical. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV She complained of the poets, who misrepresent the facts of life, then she raised her eyes towards heaven, asking of him what was the name of a star. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man They do not square with the facts of life, much less do they interpret life. The New Theology That the artist may consciously employ the facts of life, not for the sake of the fact, but to communicate his feeling by thus bodying it forth in concrete symbols, there is explicit testimony. The Enjoyment of Art He is sceptical because he sees that any one who wishes to live in harmony with the facts of life must be sceptical. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Divination has in common with magic the assumption of the unity of the world and its control by law, and the search for divine activity in the facts of life. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Test this statement with the observed facts of life. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) This attitude affords to sex love no positive purport or merit of its own, and is in striking conflict with the facts of life through the ages—facts which carry social approval. Love—Marriage—Birth Control Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at Birmingham, October, 1921 Both are athirst for the facts of life, and both think the facts of human sensibility to be of all facts the most worthy of attention. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy No alteration of the facts of life is necessary, but only a change of attitude. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 Among the terrible facts of life none is indeed more terrible than this. The Map of Life Conduct and Character The home school stays close to home problems, dealing with the facts of life as the girls who come to school see them. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) Combined with his inherent inability to face the facts of life, there was an almost superhuman capacity for cheerful recovery from the shocks of adversity. Virginia The main facts of life always remain the same. The High Calling The sacrifice of the parent for the child is one of the most universal and unselfish facts of life, and many stories illustrating it can be collected and told. The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young There is nothing more certain than that the bare facts of life are misleading in the extreme. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Such incidents pleased him; they appealed to his love for the bold and daring facts of life.... All the Brothers Were Valiant But a theory may work too perfectly to fit the haphazard facts of life. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] It's high time you learned the facts of life, Collins. This Crowded Earth He had in truth no eyes for anything outside books, nor any direct and personal perception of the facts of life. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Once attune your mind to the reception of the unexpected, so that even the great and vital facts of life and death leave you unshaken and unamazed, and the lesser quantities are adjusted with ease. Tam o' the Scoots Metaphysics had reigned and the observation of the real facts of life and experience had been disregarded. Psychology and Social Sanity She feels herself judged,—and with a righteous judgment—issuing inexorably from the facts of life and circumstance. Robert Elsmere Yes, the well-known facts of life—the ones about the birds and the bees, and barefoot boys and blondes, too. This Crowded Earth Casting aside the wild tales of boyhood, he gathers up instead the facts of life and experience, and draws his inspiration from the noble works of the world’s greatest writers. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Charitable skill is not a sort of benevolent magic; it is based on common sense, and must work in close contact with the facts of life. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers There is, in fact, nothing mysterious or philosophical in conduct; it is the sum of acts committed, the facts of life itself, accessible to all, which determine it. Spontaneous Activity in Education Nowhere else in the world, perhaps, do the cold facts of life call for a more unrelieved material response. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. To me it seems more consonant with the facts of life. Gossamer 1915 Fiction is the work of the imagination, based upon the facts of life and observation. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide They have an old-fashioned and conservative sound, but the fundamental facts of life are old-fashioned. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers Nothing is more plainly written on the facts of life than this,—that life was meant to be hard. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion That which is realistic reproduces all the facts of life. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals My work concerns the material facts of life, not the dying superstitions of the race. The Tyranny of the Dark Everything he said seemed like a painted gauze let down between herself and the real facts of life; and a sudden desire seized her to tear the gauze into shreds. Autres Temps... 1916 It was his first introduction to the cruel facts of life. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols "I hadn't thought of it in just those words, sir—" "It is one of the most-avoided facts of life," said the ambassador. The Pirates of Ersatz The social taboos began in superstitious fear, but they formed a series of conventional folkways under which some acts and facts of life were veiled from sight, knowledge, speech, and publicity. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals There is, of course, something of the same shrinking from the elemental facts of life in England; it seems to run with the Anglo-Saxon. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind "I'm telling him the facts of life about precognition," Morgan told her. Talents, Incorporated "The power of our own will to determine certain facts is, itself, one of the facts of life," says Professor Josiah Royce. The Life Radiant They weren't prepared for the more humbling facts of life. Scrimshaw It imitates facts of life and behavior and is, therefore, essentially realistic. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals We have acquired the habit of evading all the facts of life save those that are most superficial; by long disuse we have almost lost the capacity for thinking analytically and accurately. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind All the facts of life are the same; they may be interpreted equally well on either theory. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal The dear creatures have no imagination when it comes to solid facts of life. Chance A Tale in Two Parts He was brought face to face with one of the mysterious facts of life, and with one of the great mysteries of the universe, and the religious instinct awoke within him. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus An ascetic policy never is a primary product of the "ways" in which unreflecting men meet the facts of life. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals "Let's not deny the facts of life," he began again. Sacrifice The trouble with many of these recent writers is that they seem to wish to close their eyes to the unpleasant facts of life, and to gaze only upon the pleasant ones. The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms Those are the facts of life my boy. The K-Factor As I love the facts of life more, I care less for fusty commentators. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Abortion, infanticide, and killing the old are primary folkways which respond to hard facts of life in the most direct and primitive manner. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals If his virtue was prudential rather than heroic, his prudence was close to that large wisdom which is a right apprehension of all the facts of life. The Chief End of Man We are all capable of detecting the falsity if the facts of life are distorted before our eyes, or represented in so dull or meagre a way that they afford us no vivid experience whatsoever. Personality in Literature She says, 'The late Robert Louis Stevenson had no opinion of women writers, he said they were incapable of grasping the essential facts of life. Robert Louis Stevenson She made him promise that if any of the facts of life puzzled him, he would go to his father and not let naughty minded little boys tell him bad stories. The Forbidden Trail That the rough, clumsy, and persistent courtier loved her was one of the indisputable facts of life to her. Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray But what hardly admits of debate is the misconception which the mediaeval church's doctrine involved as to some of the cardinal facts of life. The Chief End of Man To sum up: great creative literature does not deal with things painful or otherwise merely because they are facts of life. Personality in Literature But, after all, the highest type of humour is humour applying itself to the facts of life, and this is burlesque humour squandering itself in riot upon a delectable fiction. Irish Books and Irish People If he, a member of the intelligentsia, wasn't sufficiently acquainted with the political and military facts of life to make rational decisions, it certainly behooved the ill-educated masses to obey. Security This is no dreaming, but an interpretation of man and nature necessitated by the undeniable facts of life. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles We pass upon it as we pass upon the facts of life. The Chief End of Man The average man, by reason of his pre-occupation and his averageness, is little affected by a variety of fine emotions; the hard facts of life smother them. Personality in Literature Every reasonably attractive woman who has been called upon to face the facts of life knows that men are impelled towards women by a force of desire that they call over-powering. Possessed By this I mean simply that you shall directly observe the facts of life, report candidly on these facts, and fully accept the implications of any judgment to which you may commit yourself. The Moral Economy But it must see to it that the view it takes is consistent with the truths of revelation and in harmony with the facts of life. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics It is impossible to doubt the vitality and the vigour of the new movement of sexual hygiene, especially that branch of it concerned with the instruction of children in the essential facts of life. The Task of Social Hygiene The record, with all its quaintness, produces a curious impression of stoicism—of a certain grim acceptance of the facts of life. A Simple Story Existence is comprised of the bare facts of life alone—the universe in which we live, our heritage and birth, our desires and their satisfactions, growth, age and death. Christianity and Progress It implies the recognition that there is a genuine ground for moral action, which may be brought home to any individual mind that will deal honestly and directly with the facts of life. The Moral Economy The Roman Stoics, notwithstanding their theoretic interest in moral questions, lived in an ideal world, and hardly attempted to bring their views into connection with the facts of life. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics They were not in relation to the altered facts of life; they had become an empty convention which could be turned to very unromantic uses. The Task of Social Hygiene The representation applies to the facts of life, of which as directed by a present Providence, and not of any future retribution, David is here thinking. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms How different were the little local facts of life—the little chopped-up life that accumulates in odds and ends from moment to moment—from the sun-and-smoke vision of early irresponsible days! The Daughters of Danaus Hence I wish to demonstrate morality to an individual reflective mind, open to the facts of life and to conviction of truth. The Moral Economy There was always a school who believed in the foundation of myth being derived from the facts of life. Folklore as an Historical Science I know you're ten nines per cent monk, Babe, but I did think you pulled your nose out of the megacycles often enough to learn a few of the facts of life. Subspace Survivors They are all written in clear, forcible language, and bring abundant illustration from science, the facts of life and history and Scripture. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms The hour had come for action and he must put aside the foolish thoughts that had crowded in when his weary brain was unable to cope with the cool facts of life. The Man of the Desert Dinner and luncheon and supper must, I suppose, be reckoned among the permanent facts of life; but there is, or was, one meal of which I have witnessed the unwept disappearance. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography And this opens up the larger and more general question, Must we, in view of the facts of life, surrender the idea of the Divine benevolence? Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive She turned away from the general tendency of the European literature of her day, a tendency to morbid realism, or dealing with the ugliest facts of life. Short Stories of Various Types Art celebrates, but also creates, this luxury of feeling, and war also in its own dramatic movement transforms ugly and plain facts of life by including them in ecstatic states, and surrounding them with glory. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History They grind among the iron facts of life, And have no time for self-deception. Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife Probably Dickens, frequently as he wrenched the facts of life into conformity with his rather primitive artistic code, believed that he also was telling the truth. The Nabob, Volume 1 Those who ask such a question should remember that the facts of life, social and economic, all make the upsetting of the man in his work seldom a safe or a happy solution. The Family and it's Members A closer inquiry into the facts of life would prove that conclusions have been too hastily adopted on the latter head. Women and Politics Many careful writers, among others the Head Master of Haileybury, recommend, as a great safeguard, the teaching to children, before knowledge is conveyed to them from impure sources, the simple facts of life. The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral The story is plainly one that touches the facts of life more nearly than stories of Shortshanks or the Blue Belt. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature The harsh clanging of the police gong, twelve times repeated, brought them back to the iron facts of life. The Great Amulet He perceived, always, the dependence of the facts of life upon the ideas underlying them, and thrusting them forward as manifestations or utterances. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories The latter began his great work, the "First Principles of Philosophy," showing the application of evolution in the facts of life, in 1852. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference What is there left but to gasp and wonder whether the words of the intellect have anything to do with the facts of life? A Preface to Politics The dryly sarcastic voice, the practical question brought Vardri down from the clouds to the hard facts of life. The Hippodrome The prose facts of life had but a remote and indistinct existence to the poet, and he blundered along miserably in his youth, supported and upheld by a dim but unquenchable aspiration. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Wherever and however displayed, it is false to the first and most essential facts of life, from the moment of the evolution of sex, hundreds of millions of years ago, until our own time. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles Attempts have indeed been made to apply mathematics to the facts of life in what is called the doctrine of chances. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity And that surprise and wonder at all the common facts of life, the sharpness with which the knowledge of death comes, characterize not alone this group, but all the songs. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Under scientific analysis the essential facts of life are very clearly shown to be two—birth and death. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought Here the sordid and cruel facts of life are not dwelt upon by preference; nor are they optimistically glossed over. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Therefore, the public school, when it represents the world as it is, represents the facts of life. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions This line of theology has been far too rigid, far too insistent upon what one may call the facts of theology, and far too blind to the facts of life. Modern Religious Cults and Movements Some fail, perhaps, because they are imprudent and ill-considered, in that they expect too much of human nature and do not take into account the stubborn facts of life. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry His thought is a tremendous solvent; it digests and renders fluid the hard facts of life and experience. The Last Harvest And they are, so far as they go; but they are partial; and so cannot altogether correspond with the facts of life. Applied Psychology for Nurses We can however illustrate the doctrine by the more familiar facts of life without recourse to the abstruse speculations of theoretical physics. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 She Begins to Teach and to Heal The typical Protestant religious experience, as we have seen, was not great enough to contain all the facts of life. Modern Religious Cults and Movements It was a shock to realize the facts of life in an artificial satellite. Space Tug But for hunger and thirst man would have lived in perfect content with the form and facts of life as he found them; progress, all that we call civilization, would not have been. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals We call judgment good, then, when it is the result of reasoning with correct or logical premises which correspond with the facts of life. Applied Psychology for Nurses There the essential facts of life he found. The Hills of Hingham But Mr. Hardy's disdain of sentimentality, and his vigorous analysis of the facts of life, render him insensible not indeed to the mystery nor to the beauty, but to the imagined sympathy, of Nature. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters The humanitarians, philanthropists, and reformers, looking at the facts of life as they present themselves, find enough which is sad and unpromising in the condition of many members of society. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other With a mind mildly aware of the facts of life, distorted through the eyes of near-nine James Holden, he watched them and listened in. The Fourth R Do the facts of life, as ordinarily presented, or as systematised in reflection, at all point in the direction of the doctrine of immanent ideas? Nature Mysticism I thought you psychiatrists knew the facts of life, Bill! Operation: Outer Space Science has refuted ignorant beliefs, driven superstition out of the minds of people, and opened many minds to the great facts of life as against the silly beliefs of primitive peoples. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul She never side-stepped the facts of life that she might not wish to know. The Freebooters of the Wilderness She had accepted the fact of it with childlike straightforwardness as she accepted all other facts of life, and now she wondered if she really did care for him so much. The Portion of Labor She was an eminently practical, sensible woman, who knew the facts of life, and knew, also, how to turn them to her own advantage. The Helpmate I was able to tell him the facts of life, and he'll be a good boy now. Murder in the Gunroom She had nothing in common with anything of that kind; she had to do with the primal facts of life. Jane Field A Novel And so with all the principles and conceptions of religion, men's reactions to them are as varied as they are to all the other facts of life. Principles of Teaching Thoreau, too, went to the woods because he wanted to live deliberately, and front only the essential facts of life. The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' Men are cowards; they dare not face the naked facts of life. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts The theist confesses freely that the importance of the moral end is a thing that the facts of life, as we now know them, will never properly explain to us. Is Life Worth Living? Ideals are always nebulous, and always resisted by the narrow sort of practical men who suggest that we are metaphysical dreamers unaware of the stern facts of life. Armageddon—And After The remaining Plenipotentiaries at last understood the nature of the game that was being played, and realised that we were down to the naked and crude facts of life and death. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation But this is only our modern way of looking at those facts of life which were eloquent to men of earlier times as the curse of God. Sermons at Rugby It will inhibit that pitiful tendency toward a falsification of the facts of life, which asserts the reform of a character in the twinkling of an eye just before the final fall of the curtain. Inquiries and Opinions I will again re-state, in other words than my own, the theory we are now going to test by the actual facts of life. Is Life Worth Living? The detailing of the minor facts of life without malice and with absolute truth enables posterity to form a sound judgment on a past age. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Poe knew men as little as he knew any of the other every-day facts of life. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie Parents and teachers ordinarily have extraordinary skill in evading, but little in facing, the facts of life. The Business of Being a Woman Mary had not lived her eleven years without finding out some of the grim facts of life. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder It will explain the facts of life to us, it is true, but it will not explain the value that hitherto we have attached to them. Is Life Worth Living? Instinctively he knew that his father referred to what a local doctor called "the facts of life." The Plastic Age The intricate questions of the examination on political science over which he was trying faithfully to work seemed paltry beside the great facts of life and death. The Witness God is the most reasonable explanation of the facts of life. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Steadfast as the points of the compass to Mrs. Arbuthnot were the great four facts of life: God, Husband, Home, Duty. The Enchanted April He was not a man exasperated by a woman's unseasonable importunity, but angry with the grim, hard, cruel facts of life. The Summons With fine dramatic instinct he has shown these characters in true relation to the facts of life and to each other. Browning's Shorter Poems The sordid facts of life are gilded by the rainbow colours of romance. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. For if you believe that person, not process, is the ultimate reality, you must offer some defiance to the material facts of life. Essays on Art Even the very facts of life had been planned to hurt her. The Judge His ignorance about the common facts of life was as extraordinary as his perfect familiarity with matters known only to great scholars. Austin and His Friends It was not immodest, but it revealed a mind accustomed to view the facts of life, not one nourished on pretty fancies, like those of his sisters. The Wharf by the Docks A Novel He was the typical "shirker" and "loafer," while other men worked; the parasite bred from the sweat of the poor; the soft, effeminate creature who had never faced the facts of life and never would. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend He declared that the sympathy of a man in active affairs was invaluable to a solitary student like himself: he hoped, so he said, to see through my eyes the facts of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 They sound at first as if they were dead in the teeth of the facts of life. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII I want you to be sensible, practical, and alive to the sober facts of life. Austin and His Friends Every blunder is a rock in our field, and at last the field is a stone-heap of blunders, and our giants have work enough to reach any ground in the unsophisticated facts of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Ideas, spiritual entities, were the counterparts and necessary antecedents of the natural objects and actual facts of life. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant We can do no good by nourishing fears, by encouraging silly conventionalities, by shirking the bald facts of life; and we should gently, joyfully, trustfully look our fate in the face and fear nothing. Side Lights Unless one believes that, he must be strangely blind to the facts of life if he has not a cold dread coiled round his heart and ever ready to sting. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII But when we have regard to the actual facts of life, we can no longer place virtue in a vacuum. Little Essays of Love and Virtue Any vocational counselor who fails to reckon first with the homemaking career of girls is therefore blind to the facts of life. Vocational Guidance for Girls He aimed to begin with certain facts of life. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant George Eliot was prepared to bear the worst that could befall her, and it was her frank and gentle acceptance of the facts of life that brought her joy in the end. Side Lights Discipline, he'd said, was accepting the facts of life as they were. The Real Adventure The outcry about "Race-Suicide" is so far away from the real facts of life that it is not easy to take it seriously, however solemn one's natural temperament may be. Little Essays of Love and Virtue It is unpractical, out of touch with the facts of life and locality, a veritable castle hung absurdly in the air and not based on any solid foundation. The Open Secret of Ireland "I wish," she answered, "my Diana to face the facts of life, ugly though they may be." Lady Good-for-Nothing His lightning eye pierced to the very heart of things, and his intense grip on the facts of life makes his style seem alive. Side Lights As she refracted the facts of life for him they presented themselves in the primitive old-fashioned way. The Real Adventure No," answered her father, "that is one of the sad facts of life. The Little Colonel's Hero Here, in this Sunday morning breakfast-room, I was able for the first time to appreciate the tragedy in its proper relation to the facts of life. The Jervaise Comedy But, surely, to argue thus is to manifest a most absurd misapprehension of the facts of life. Prose Fancies To the American of that day Quebec was one of the vital facts of life. The Hunters of the Hills It's accepting the facts of life—of your own life, as they happen to be. The Real Adventure We do not ignore the sad facts of life; even the Christian is often saddened by the mysteries which he cannot explain. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 No doubt the elements of mythology are in all nations the same, consisting of the facts of nature and the facts of life. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology This scorn of the common man is but another instance of the poet's ignorance of the facts of life and the relations of things. Prose Fancies Yet he read the facts of life understandingly, and the sobriety which comes of the soil was his, and the clear earth-vision. A Daughter of the Snows If he answers it in the negative, no argument, no persuasion, no sentimentalisation of the facts of life, will make him alter his opinion. The Feast of St. Friend It can only be ignored by shutting our eyes to half the facts of life. Christian Mysticism But I can face the facts of life, and if I'm not a coward, I shan't run away from them. Simon Called Peter After all, what was the use of resenting the facts of life? Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage The convert took the patent facts of life, believing that Buddha had explained all, and based his own belief not on understanding but on faith. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow In actual fact, however, the fault is more apparent than real, for Eucken does in fact reason and argue closely concerning the facts of life. Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life Certain truths about nature and the facts of life were communicated in the "greatest mysteries," according to Clement, and Cicero says the same thing. Christian Mysticism Were they only for a love that should be unhampered by the ordinary facts of life? Judith of the Godless Valley He had too much of the sense which handles daily life; he saw the facts of life too clearly, to fall into the vaguer regions of mysticism. The Poetry Of Robert Browning Now the facts of life are conveyed by our senses to the consciousness within us, and stimulate the world of thought and feeling that constitutes our real life. The Practice and Science of Drawing ‘The Irish,’ he tells us, ‘had disowned the facts of life, and the facts of life had proved the strongest.’ Reviews One of the facts of life, not taken into account with a fraction of its true significance and importance, is the variability of the race, the wide range of abilities, instincts, emotions, aspirations, and tastes. The Nervous Housewife Indeed, the history of literature all round has proved that the men who have been masters of words have also been masters of things—masters of the facts of life for which those words stand. Prose Fancies (Second Series) For the facts of life cannot be tabulated with as great an ease as the colours of birds and insects can be tabulated. Miscellanies He leaned against an outer pillar for support, and gradually the noise of the street drew him back again to reality and to the solid facts of life once more. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Her fault for endlessly refining on the facts of life, till she lost all feeling of its simpler and more obvious issues. The Divine Fire I hope I am able to recognize the facts of life. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 That is true, but for the very reason that these systems were elaborate organisations, based on the facts of life. The Authoritative Life of General William Booth But this very isolation leads often to mere mannerism in the painter, and robs him of that broad acceptance of the general facts of life which is the very essence of art. Miscellanies All children are poets, and fairy tales are the poetic recording of the facts of life. A Study of Fairy Tales The unsympathetic attitude of women towards women is often largely due to sheer ignorance of the facts of life. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society It cannot be accepted simply as other facts of life are accepted; it cannot even be talked about, and so submitted to the slow usure by which our experiences are worn down and gradually transformed. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Think of the facts of life; think of the facts of nature. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) In our desire to imitate the actual facts of life, we sometimes become near-sighted and forget the larger truths that underlie them. The Theory of the Theatre We must view life with these four who are up against the facts of life, and whose lot presents a variety of contrast. A Study of Fairy Tales They are simple, serious and solemn words, connoting the most central facts of life, and only to ignorant and plebeian vulgarity can they cause obscene mirth. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society It is their combined power that gives interest and meaning to the facts of life, and transmutes them into a moral and intellectual order. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher You can't smother sin or the facts of life unless they occur separately. Kindred of the Dust The stage became essentially pictorial, and began to be used to represent faithfully the actual facts of life. The Theory of the Theatre The application will be made in practical design, in mechanical and free-hand drawing, in constructive labor, in the graphical representation of social, economic, and other facts of life. What the Schools Teach and Might Teach In both there was a temperament touched with melancholy, and a curious incapacity to accept the common facts of life. The Testing of Diana Mallory Before attempting that task, it must be seen to what extent, and in what way, he applies the hypothesis of universal love to the particular facts of life. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher They subject the unclassified and chaotic facts of life to the order of beauty. The Pleasures of Ignorance Yet when he lays them bare we know that they are not fictitious, not invented, but as real as the ordinary familiar facts of life. Best Russian Short Stories This, it was explained to me, is generally due to the ignorance of the facts of life in which girls are kept by their parents or others responsible for their training. Regeneration If a man be candid with himself, if he face the common facts of life with seriousness and in the doing of duty, perplexities vanish. The Jesus of History Browning was, at first, restrained from exclusive devotion to abstract views, by the suggestions which the artistic spirit receives through its immediate contact with the facts of life. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher A realist, brutal, bitter, he was in his youth; he saw the grosser facts of life, so often lamentable and tender, in the spirit of a Voltaire doubled by a Rabelais. Promenades of an Impressionist |
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