| 单词 | flabbiness |
| 例句 | The prisoners had that same flabbiness and coarseness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And all the lines in her face, the flabbiness, the wrinkles. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Flabby muscles,” the book said, signify “mental, if not moral, flabbiness.” No Sweat 2010-04-09T17:48:00Z But there wasn’t the flabbiness there that defines Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is TV's Most #Problematic Show 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z In The Penguin Book of Patience, David Partlett writes: “Patience is the mental equivalent of jogging: its purpose is to tone the brain up and get rid of unsociable mental flabbiness.” The joy of solitaire – on your table, not your computer screen 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The smooth muscle around these organs also can maintain a muscle tone when the organ empties and shrinks, a feature that prevents “flabbiness” in the empty organ. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Such campaigns against supposed waste or flabbiness in Whitehall are traditional for new governments, and generally meet with mixed success. '10 out of 10': Long Bailey gives verdict on Corbyn as Labour leader, blaming media for his poor image - live news 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But perhaps a source of its flabbiness is the condition under which it was written. Review | Valerie Jarrett’s winding path to the Obamas’ inner circle 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Jude Blanchette of the Conference Board, a research group, says cadres view the flabbiness of some parties in the former Soviet empire as one reason for their collapse. China’s Communist Party is becoming choosier about new members 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z This is hardly the first time a major Hollywood franchise has succumbed to narrative flabbiness, or invested in grand, elaborate world building with the kind of devotion that far outstrips the viewer’s interest. Spy-caper sequel 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle' offers more and more of the same 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z He took up soccer and skateboarding, became infatuated with weight lifting, and shed flabbiness that had become a source of ridicule. Orlando mass killer: Unruly boy grew into angry man 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z He took up soccer and skateboarding, became infatuated with weight lifting, and shed the flabbiness that had become a source of ridicule. ‘Always Agitated. Always Mad’: Omar Mateen, According to Those Who Knew Him 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z The wines are revealing ripe but balanced flavors, and there is little indication of flabbiness that often is associated with a vintage that is traditionally too warm. Stock up on 2014 Washington red wines; they’re as tasty as promised 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z But there’s also a disappointing flabbiness to “Scream Queens” — a sign that Murphy and company could be running dry on ideas. Fall TV Preview 2015: Every new show, the schedule for every returning show, and what’s worth watching They despise the weakness and moral flabbiness of their liberal opponents. A Hateful Sort of Love 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Fourth, with a few conspicuous exceptions, a continuing degeneration and flabbiness of journalistic English. Inside Forbes: In Journalism, What's New Is Actually Old... and 'That's the Way It Is' 2012-05-29T11:50:29Z This flabbiness has nothing to do with Probabilism. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The flabbiness, rottenness, and helplessness of the middle-classes and their parties everywhere became evident with terrifying clearness. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Bonnie Prudden, whose alarm over the flabbiness of American children propelled her to become one of the most visible postwar champions of physical fitness, died on Dec. 11 at her home in Tucson. Bonnie Prudden Dies at 97; Promoted Fitness for Youths 2011-12-19T01:27:23Z Its course runs from ease, through softness, to flabbiness, to degeneracy, mental, physical and moral. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z The general lack of vasomotor tone in the blood vessels together with some atrophy and flabbiness of the coats probably explains the loud sounds. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z And here is the lachrymose Ranevskaya and the other owners of “The Cherry Orchard,” egotistical like children, with the flabbiness of senility. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z It probably had been high, stiff, and square originally, but it had collapsed to utter flabbiness, and it could not now be said to be of any colour, having faded to a mixture of all. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z No fat, no flabbiness—just solid sinew and ruddy health. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z Look at the famous beauties of any age, and everything in the picture or statue points to this same firmness and symmetry of make, this freedom from either leanness or flabbiness. How to Get Strong and How to Stay So 2011-07-01T02:00:12.520Z "Good Heavens!" cried her husband: and all the tranquil joy died out of his face; nothing but weariness, flabbiness and dejection remained. A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2011-06-08T02:00:18.910Z By degrees the young revolutionary officer became the fashion, and his consular bearing did not displease the public, sickened at the flabbiness of Cluseret. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z It is accompanied by great muscular flabbiness and want of energy, the sufferer looking at the same time fat and comparatively well. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Fat and flabbiness and over-feeding is a national vice with us. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z The trouble with you is that you have a swampy mind, and it is the miasmatic oozings of your intellect that reduce you to the condition of physical flabbiness of which you complain. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z I am perpetually hungry; and it is the unpleasant hunger that expresses itself in a dislike for food, in listlessness, inability to work, flabbiness, even faintness. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Unfortunately, cultural flabbiness is a feature of British life. Lord Triesman's careless talk shouldn't have cost him his job 2010-05-18T12:39:00Z They lived in a beastly villa and were, to speak generally, a disgrace to humanity by their utter flabbiness. The Great Miss Driver Like many men of his peculiar physique, he was never a strong man morally, and his will grew weaker as his body increased in gross flabbiness. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History There is the classic monotheism of the prophets, and the more polytheistic tendencies of later times, a contrast parallel to the sanity of classic Greece as compared with the flabbiness of Hellenistic times. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Brand noticed that his bearers' arms trembled with his weight: and sensed the flabbiness of the substance that took the place in them of good solid muscle. The Red Hell of Jupiter Their opponents have the flabbiness and the lack of self-reliance resulting from seven hundred years of whining and querulous complaint. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule These wanderings are entertaining enough, but they dissipate the energies of the students and produce a mental flabbiness already too well developed in the average college student. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College My first impression of him had been one of huge strength, my second was one of flabbiness, and no one could help guessing the reason. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate To Ranny, Jujubes, in his increasing flabbiness, was too disgusting to be dangerous. The Combined Maze Now you see only torpidity and flabbiness, you hear only the trivial, the rhythmically inaccurate, and the melodiously trite. On the Future of our Educational Institutions The leopard leads such an active life that he is generally slim, without any flabbiness. The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two Yet the sardonic hardness of chin and jaw was very different to his own flabbiness; and as he watched his opposite Osbaldistone felt hatred surge up within his soul. Border Ghost Stories He was slightly above average height, rather heavily built, and inclined to flabbiness. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War He recognized in her a lamentable and inveterate flabbiness. The Combined Maze The healthy colour natural to them had left his large cheeks, their fatness was only flabbiness, the small eyes were filled with a strange, pleading, protesting misery as of a man in terrible bodily discomfort. A Sheaf of Corn There is no suggestion of flabbiness about her and so she can impart to us the soul of the struggling moujik, the spirit of a nation, the figure on the prow of a Greek bark.... The Merry-Go-Round They did not feel the miserable flabbiness of his moral fibre; did not know that the weak slip down when they try to stand, and cannot march erect. Emily Brontë He renders the human body with a cynical sense of its possible flabbiness and an intimate acquaintance with its structure. Picture and Text 1893 But even Ranny hesitated to call it flabbiness in so fine a man. The Combined Maze I've been his friend for years; his flabbiness sticks out all over him. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel "The flabbiness of the people I met yesterday gives me all the more grounds for action." The Jewish State Some of them softer to the point of flabbiness; some harder both of body and soul. Adaptation Gambetta, that incubus of bombastic flabbiness, roaring prophecy and platitude through the dismayed city, kept his eye on the balcony of the particular edifice where, later, he should pose as an animated Jericho trumpet. Lorraine A romance There was not about him any sign that you could see of flabbiness or weediness. The Combined Maze Here he compares not badly to a sandy hook, a sorry kind of anchor, the soul that is unsettled and has no steady reason, but surrenders judgment through flabbiness and feebleness. Plutarch's Morals For it is not your action that revolts me; it is your apathy, your flabbiness, your cowardice!... The Choice of Life A careless, spasmodic hurrying and retarding leads only to flabbiness and inconsequence. Essentials in Conducting The flabbiness of his eyes became something else. Erik Dorn His face, with all its flabbiness, had its dark accent and distinction; and these were rendered even more emphatic by the growth of a black mustache which he had trained with care. The Combined Maze But for all his geniality, there is no indulgence for flabbiness—there is little sympathy, indeed, for any of the weaker ways. Browning's Heroines They have absolutely no savor of softness or moral flabbiness. Sermons on Biblical Characters It will be seen that the education of the Humboldts was what the Boylston Professor of English at Harvard calls "faddism, or the successful effort at flabbiness." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists The flabbiness of Broadway cannot be washed out of the soul in a month. Steve Yeager He noticed that Winny was more slender and less sturdy than she used to be; her figure, to his expert eye, suggested the hateful possibility of flabbiness. The Combined Maze When we come to measure rulers who make divine claims for their duties, from any such coign of flabbiness as this, no wonder we stand dumb. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Austria was already blaming us for flabbiness and we could not flinch. History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War All the flabbiness had passed from his face, and his eyes shone clearer than ever from a clear complexion. Alec Forbes of Howglen Olive was searching her mirror for refutation of his words, trying to stroke away the flabbiness of her cheek and chin muscles and the heavy strained shadows under the eyes. Swirling Waters Now it was as if he loathed him too much in his flabbiness to care for the contact that personal violence involved. The Combined Maze It reveals the flabbiness which the Northerners were in danger of making a governing tradition of policy. Abraham Lincoln So was Mrs. Babcock's, darkly dim with age, as if the hearth-fires of her life had always smoked, with a loose flabbiness about the jaw-bones, which seemed to make more evident the firm structure underneath. Jane Field A Novel But Governments are beset by an even greater danger, which the learned might call "flaccidity" and the simple—"flabbiness." Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences "For God's sake, don't!" pleaded Shearson, with such a shaken flabbiness of vehemence that both Hal and Ellis laughed, though the former felt an uneasy puzzlement. The Clarion Yet, through all the miserable workings of his mind the thought of Mercier's flabbiness was sweet to him. The Combined Maze A vicious kick cut short his protestations, and the two passed out of hearing of the two watchers above, the khansaman having brought his quivering flabbiness to Desmond's side. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Such an increase is sometimes accompanied with fatty degeneration of the heart and muscles, and with a certain watery flabbiness in the limbs, which, however, do not pit on pressure. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria A beginner should not attempt it too soon, for then it will only result in flabbiness. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers The span of his shoulders was immense, and, though a heavy paunch and a white flabbiness of face spoke of a gross, sedentary life, he was obviously a man of quite unusual strength. The Man with the Clubfoot What he first noted in her with wonder and admiration was the absence of weediness and flabbiness. The Combined Maze There was something definite and keen about this girl of twenty-three that suddenly illuminated my intellectual and moral flabbiness. The Jervaise Comedy The scene at this moment was magnificent; the silken monster, in a state of flabbiness, rolling and fluttering above, while below us were thousands of spectators, absolutely shrieking with merriment. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 A child with rickets, unable to exercise his body in free play, as a rule shows a flabbiness of mind in keeping with his useless muscles and yielding bones. The Nervous Child Their fumbling style and contemptible flabbiness Clings to you yet. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 Their invasion disturbed him in his vision of their flabbiness; it rubbed it into him, the things that they could do. The Combined Maze I think I am changed in some stern spiritual way—stripped of flabbiness. Carry On Letters in War-Time It is as a corrective to this tendency to flabbiness in modern education that the teaching of Nietzsche is so invaluable. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society That sketch admirably pourtrays the lankiness and flabbiness of Brassin's figure, contrasting as it did with the strength of the wrist and the grip of the fingers. In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences The only physical defect to which I was frankly willing to plead guilty was a flabbiness of the neck under the chin, which might by a hostile eye have been regarded as slightly double. The "Goldfish" It has resulted in brilliant achievements in chemical and physical laboratories, and in gout, dyspepsia and flabbiness in eating establishments. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War To me it was an incredible England; an England purged of all weakness, stripped of flabbiness, regenerated by sacrifice. Carry On Letters in War-Time He started this pump, but it proved too small, and as the gas was compressed more and more, and the flabbiness of the balloon increased, the whole thing became unmanageable. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers The other characters are ordinary people: Charlotte and the Captain ordinary in their good sense and self-control, Edward ordinary in his moral flabbiness and his foolish infatuation. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Of course he failed, as even the most humane and philosophic persecutors usually fail, but had he succeeded, would not the soul of Europe have degenerated into a flabbiness, lethargy, and desperate peace? Essays in Rebellion A sallow flabbiness was upon him when he took the stopper out, and presented the bottle to Mr Clennam's nose. Little Dorrit A certain flabbiness of fiber prevents the contemplated object from gripping him and engaging him in action. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education I have spoken of the impression of flabbiness which this man Blessington conveyed. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes He was growing stout and soft, and there was unwonted flabbiness in his muscles. Burning Daylight The little man plumped up very considerably during the creation of the Tono-Bungay property, but with the increasing excitements that followed that first flotation came dyspepsia and a certain flabbiness and falling away. Tono Bungay The sternly chiselled face, surrounded by a short, half-pointed beard, showed neither flabbiness nor bloat. The Indian Lily and Other Stories Bones and muscles lead all other tissues, as if they vied with each other; and there is frequent flabbiness or tension as one or the other leads. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene If, for instance, the good state is firmness of flesh it follows that the bad state is flabbiness of flesh; and whatever causes firmness of flesh is connected with the good state. Ethics Through all her flabbiness ran the rod of steel. The Mountebank To this school the cultivation of emotional expression is suspicious, if not dangerous; it leads to eccentricity, to the revelation of feelings which frequently are not worth experiencing, to sentimental flabbiness, to riot and extravagance. Authors of Greece How did they rid themselves of their civilian flabbiness and acquire it? The Glory of the Trenches Then turning her head over her shoulder, she burst into a laugh, softly husky with the general flabbiness of her corporeal conditions. Malcolm We have seen how the American, Beard, was inspired by the idea that "nerves" represented a loss of tone, a flabbiness, weakness and softness of the nerves, to coin the word neurasthenia. The Glands Regulating Personality The coarseness, the flabbiness, the purplish hues were no longer there. The Rose in the Ring And I am only just emerging from a good many weeks of that sort of flabbiness and poverty. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 How bitterly will he then regret the heritage denied him or foolishly squandered, the handicap of quivering nerves, muscular flabbiness, wandering mind, that impedes its accomplishment! Problems of Conduct A man of perhaps forty, with the portly flabbiness which often accompanies success in the financial markets, he was accustomed to obtaining rather than yielding obedience. The Film Mystery But when Sophia bent over Madame Foucault, and touched her flabbiness, this illusion at once vanished; and instead of being dramatically pathetic the woman was ridiculous. The Old Wives' Tale Just why he experienced such relief he hardly knew, but suddenly he felt no great pride in himself nor in the life that had brought him to such a state of flabbiness. The Winds of Chance But the bodies of the one class do NOT represent the finest physical health, involving coarseness, flabbiness, susceptibility to disorder, etc., etc., and are not contradictions of the law. Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success To capitulate to the enemy is not to conquer; the enemy himself must surrender; and that enemy is the laziness and flabbiness of our actors, who must be forcibly driven to feel and think. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 That argues a shameful flabbiness of the moral fibre, doesn't it? The Gates of Chance The months had hardened him physically, had freed him from all superfluous flesh; and the flabbiness had wholly gone from his cheeks and chin. The Judgment House "He hasn't any, anyhow," whispered the lady Ugly-Wugly; "don't mind him quite a self-made man," and squeezed Mabel's arm with horrible confidential flabbiness. The Enchanted Castle He is still stout, but all the flabbiness has dropped from him; gone too is his pomposity; his eye is clear, brown his skin; he could leap a gate. The Admirable Crichton Although perhaps not all singers are conscious of this privilege of their genius, they, as a rule, involuntarily adopt this free-and-easy method, which confirms them in a certain natural laziness and flabbiness. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 His great face was yellow and seemed in that moment of a preternatural flabbiness; his beady eyes were beadier than ever. Captain Blood As for the government, it showed the weakness, indecision, flabbiness, and heedlessness common to all governments, and from which none has ever departed without falling into arbitrariness and violence. Penguin Island Notwithstanding his flabbiness, one cannot but regard him with a certain amount of pity—not unmixed with amusement. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow I am no better than a woman myself; I am a limp rag, a flabby creature, so I hate flabbiness. The Wife, and other stories And the captain climbed into his automobile, extending a soft, cold hand that seemed to repel the old man with its flabbiness. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| 随便看 |
|
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。