| 单词 | immovability |
| 例句 | If other gymnasts fly higher, flip faster and land with heavier immovability, Hernandez is simply more delightful. It’s hard to look like a swan when you’re doing a wolf turn 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Democrats promise to use Trump’s immovability on climate change as a weapon in the general election. Trump Touts Tree Planting, But Ignores Climate in State of the Union Speech 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Xi is sixty-six years old, with a full, reddish face, neatly combed hair, and an expression of patient immovability. The Future of America’s Contest with China 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z To some, the failure to pass an election law is a result of the immovability not only of Beijing but also of the pan-democrats. With Beijing’s Voting Plan Dead, Hong Kong Looks for Way Forward 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Leonardo's Self-Portrait is considered so valuable that it is subject to a state decree of immovability. The Leonardo hidden from Hitler in case it gave him magic powers 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z In raiding and plundering be like fire, is immovability like a mountain. Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Illustrated (Chapter 7: Maneuvering) 2013-10-22T13:00:00Z The stillness of their various poses, for with the closing of the door each had maintained a rigid immovability, was fraught with significance. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z The two gazed at each other, the Pharisee to discover a crisis in the Essene's look; the Essene to see immovability in the Pharisee. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z In those two ultimate positions of scientific research concerning inorganic existence, religion finds support, and that of a kind so powerful, that science itself depends upon its immovability. The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 2011-09-11T02:00:11.613Z These facts are not due to any immovability; but to a dangerously lax tendency to run into foreign roads. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z Many painful affections of joints, sometimes complicated by immovability, are really psycho-neuroses. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Use his own language, and there is either no penetration, or there is no immovability. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z It is on a rock, and will partake of the same immovability.' In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z The most striking feature of the situation was the immovability of the yacht. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Only the fearful, stilted immovability of him gave the lie to his reality. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z But the argument which Aristotle himself more frequently uses to establish the immovability of the first mover is that, unless we so conceive it, no cause of motion appears. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy They prove that the association of repose and immovability with the supreme power signified a radical change of thought, based upon prolonged astronomical observation, and indicated intellectual advancement. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations There is, therefore, no climax, no changelessness, no immovability. Death The mass and immovability add to the charm and character of the water about them. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors Getting no answer, and irritated at the old man’s owl-like immovability, she repeated, with vehemence, “Was he?” The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 But, as far as anything can be seen plainly about Rossetti at present, to me the fact of his immovability, his self-support, his curious reserve, seems to be the most interesting. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History It is true it does not conceal the smiling glacier in front of me, with its ceaseless play of light and shadow, colour and form, but it arrests the fancy by its massive immovability. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war But he had not calculated on the immovability of the Iron Duke. Treasure Valley He stood there, the fingers of both hands lightly interlaced, his face quiet to the last degree of immovability. Say and Seal, Volume II As formerly they had known slavery by its symbol immovability, so now they tasted freedom by its symbol motion. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Stiffening or immovability of the joints between these little bones, from catarrh of the middle ear, is most important in producing permanent deafness. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) But all these limits are much narrower than those imposed by the quality of immovability.209.Senior, Principles Of Political Economy It was obvious that nothing concerned her outside her immediate calling and that she accepted this with a stoical immovability which was neither to be diverted nor influenced. The Wall Between Ignorant of the immovability of the center around which they were turning, they believed with the best of faith that the movement was an advance. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The porch of the cathedral, lately so resounding, is restored to the mutterings of the beggarwoman sitting by the door, and to the cold immovability of its stone saints. Tartarin On The Alps They were obliged to fasten the brig by means of her anchors, notwithstanding her immovability; they were obliged to prepare for the submarine currents and the breaking up of the ice. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras The independence and immovability of the judges had been guaranteed to the nation, and this guarantee was certainly the most valuable of the rights which we had gained. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I Absolute immovability was his only hope and, like Molly Cottontail, he "froze." Followers of the Trail Before the times of Galileo and Harvey the world believed in the stagnation of the blood, and the diurnal immovability of the earth; and for denying these the one was persecuted and the other ridiculed. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Finding after a while that his efforts were unavailing, he subsided at last into sulky immovability. With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War The opinion of the earth's motion is, of all heresies, the most abominable, the most pernicious, the most scandalous: the immovability of the earth is thrice sacred. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Behind his shut doors of immovability and stiff coldness, behind his cynic habit of treating all things with detached lightness, the generations and the centuries had continued their work in spite of his modernity. Robin But in its immovability this race has claims. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O The studied immovability of her countenance; her slow, equable manner, and soft but unmelodious voice, were a mask, hiding her fiery passions, and the impatience of her disposition. The Last Man We find no more lumpish harmonies and basses of leaden immovability: the basses stalk about with arrogant independence, and the harmonic progressions, even when most daring and perilous, are superbly poised. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Already it was apparent that Douglas stood upon no idealistic immovability when the main thing was at stake. Children of the Market Place So fixed was its instinctive knowledge that its safety depended on its immovability, that it allowed me to pick it up and replace it among the ants without making a single effort to escape. Darwinism (1889) Each saw his companion in his silence and immovability change into a stone image. Invisible Links China is the country of routine and immovability. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 The apparent immovability of the bullet and the want of communication with the exterior prevented them finding it out. The Moon-Voyage The Apaches were discouraged by the immovability of the train, and by the steady and deadly resistance of its defenders. Overland It was a palm grove, surging up between the rocks, but the rocks were only pebbles, and the palm trees,—annelides of the sea,—were simply worms holding themselves in upright immovability. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel The very size and shape, and hopeless immovability of the bedstead, and wardrobe, and in a minor degree of even the chairs and tables, provoked sleep; they were plainly apoplectic and disposed to snore. Martin Chuzzlewit She has only one royal attribute: a perfect immovability of expression under all circumstances, and that rather a sullen one. The Voyage of the Beagle Its apparent immovability, and the want of communication with the outside, prevented them from solving the question. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon The unnaturalness of her crime stood out the more harshly by the side of her hard immovability and obstinate silence. Adam Bede This individual with the air of a procurer must be greatly to blame for the immovability of the steamer; his heart told him so. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel For once Guest's face lost its immovability of expression. The Great Secret Not a word came from the man who seemed to have learnt the gift of sitting with absolute immovability. The Pawns Count The sight and the sound of the waters rushing, and the solemn immovability of the ice, formed a sublime contrast. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 At the close of these last incoherent sentences, Helen was awe-struck by the absolute composed immovability and silence of Lady Davenant. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 They would drink slowly, interrupting their relish of the liquor to lament together the immovability of the Mare Nostrum. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel I saw with fear its immovability to the struggles of our handful of people. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft No Hindu Yogis ever sat meditating with the absolute immovability of the three, and as our wounds stiffened under the cold night air, we became foolishly angry at the wait. The White Waterfall To begin with, the arm-chair in which the patient was always directed to sit, was nailed to the floor, since its immovability tended to impart this same excellent characteristic to the occupant. Three More John Silence Stories The apparition of Zacharias stunned him to immovability. International Short Stories: French Her fury spent itself unavailingly against the solid immovability of the wood. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel It gave me an impression of immovability, of patient and methodical relentlessness that was disheartening. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft No Gorgon's head could have consigned her to immovability more hopeless. The Green Mouse His attitude, his whole being, was expressive of that immovability of purpose which had hitherto been concealed from her by his quiet manner. The Sowers This immovability of face, and the habit of taking a pinch of snuff before he gave an answer, made him trebly oracular to Mr. Tulliver. The Mill on the Floss Toni, who abominated railway journeys on account of his torpid immovability, now had to abandon the Mare Nostrum and suffer the torture of remaining twelve hours crowded in with strange persons. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel He admitted that he had once been opposed to the Edmunds-Tucker bill, but felt now that it was justified by the immovability of the Mormons. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft His mother trembled with despair; the absolute immovability of these two was awful! The Iron Woman So fixed was its instinctive knowledge that its safety depended on its immovability, that it allowed me to pick it up and replace it amongst the ants without making a single effort to escape. The Naturalist in Nicaragua Although he knew it must be so, the immovability of the great mass of iron gave him a sudden shock of mysterious fear. The Great Stone of Sardis In their interstices and hollows the plants were moving like living creatures, and the little animals had the immovability of vegetables and stones. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel She sat by the west window of the kitchen, looking out into the gathering of the shadows with the expectant immovability that characterized her. Further Chronicles of Avonlea I will come and set her an example of immovability. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 All depended now on his perfect immovability, as he well knew; and he so far commanded himself, as to remain rigid as if of stone himself. Jack Tier The churches, which originated from misunderstanding of Christ's teaching and have maintained this misunderstanding by their immovability, cannot but persecute and refuse to recognize all true understanding of Christ's words. The Kingdom of God Is Within You Ferragut passed many mornings contemplating their treacherous immovability, followed by deadly unfoldings the moment that their prey came down into the tank. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Here she broke off, terrified in spite of herself by the immovability of Fontenelle's attitude, and the coldness of his eyes. The Master-Christian Till then their immovability will serve you better than my wandering about on railways and steamboats. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End Finding after awhile that his efforts were unavailing, he subsided at last into sulky immovability. With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War In astronomy it was the immovability of the earth, in history it is the independence of personality—free will. War and Peace In the first months of his existence ashore, he was amazed at the desperate immovability of everything. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel But nothing broke the immovability of that hard horizon; and, indeed, how was it possible that help should come to him now? Eminent Victorians You had argued away the immovability, the ubiquity, the permanency, the eternity, and the divinity of the soul, for is not your favourite axiom, ' It is the nature of limbs which thinketh in man'? Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance But her smiles and the announcement of her wealth fell dead before the dogged immovability of the Chouan. The Chouans It seemed to her that there was something strange about the immovability of his features. The Illustrious Prince |
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