| 单词 | imponderable |
| 例句 | Genuine science and mathematical precision are more intriguing than are the “facts” published in supermarket tabloids or a romantic innumeracy which fosters credulity, stunts skepticism, and dulls one to real imponderables. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Hands-on cyclotron operators, a species of which Bethe was not a member, understood that there were so many imponderables about how the machine worked that empirical experience still trumped even the most carefully polished theory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I hesitated, weighing and balancing the imponderable realities. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Something imponderable shifting out there in the dark. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Al, who once bemoaned the disruptive “imponderables” brought by the telegraph, sees the phone as an abomination. Review: In One Last ‘Deadwood,’ the Future Prevails and the Past Endures 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Though the shy Caltech professor was far more comfortable contemplating black holes and other imponderables than he was navigating the world of dating, he said yes. Kip Thorne, the scientist who slipped through a wormhole 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z This is one of the imponderables of bridge: You have the values for game with an eight-card major-suit fit; when should you play in three no-trump and when in four of the major? Bridge: Game in the Major or in No-Trump? 2011-02-19T00:48:03Z It is instead a demented entertainment, an embarrassment of kitsch riches that, in between inspiring giggles and snorts, incites you to consider imponderables like, who greenlighted this, and why? Review: In ‘Gods of Egypt,’ That Doughnut Beast Is Stepping on My Sandal 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Then a little farther on he lists the "imponderables" that lie behind the human tendency towards religion and also philosophy. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z How odd that these "imponderables" should be just the kind of thing humankind has pondered endlessly. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z It's an intriguing imponderable of the African music scene. From street to screen: the story of Staff Benda Bilili 2011-02-24T22:00:01Z The questions to which science in its most sophisticated forms has come would have been the imponderables of philosophy a few generations ago, of theology a few centuries ago, of religion a few millennia ago. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z The question of precisely what Britney Spears brings to said party remains as imponderable as ever. Britney Spears: Femme Fatale - review 2011-03-24T15:29:01Z Re: Review: 'Merchants of Doubt,' Separating Science from Spin,by A. O. Scott, March 5, 2015.A seemingly imponderable issue in the debate... Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Slight melodies, clunky chord changes and imponderable lyrics leave a listener with little to latch onto. Review: Slight songs mar Neko Case's latest 2013-09-03T23:13:04Z With performance art, museums face a number of imponderable issues that do not arise with works like paintings and sculptures. Sitting With Marina 2010-05-23T21:05:00Z Even back then, for many the Pacific front seemed distant and imponderable, vitally important but obscure. Television Review | 'The Pacific': First Marine Division in Gruesome World War II Battles 2010-03-11T23:25:00Z Life presents imponderable opportunities for failure; my advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last. Ask Amy: It’s hero time for this alienated dad 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The imponderables of the unseen cards bring some guesswork into the equation. Bridge: New Books for Advanced Bridge Players 2012-11-17T00:01:03Z He's the one sure thing in a sea of imponderables. Baftas 2013: the contenders 2013-02-08T10:56:16Z After all, the self-confessed "positive cynic" has spent enough time grappling with the "moral and ideological imponderables which have decided our nation's fate", and now it seems the time has come for action. Tadeusz Konwicki lays bare Poland's 'ruined-modern' past 2011-04-06T11:54:51Z Audiences were left pondering the imponderable: Could the second film actually be lamer than the first? G.I. Joe Retaliation: Make That Redemption 2013-03-29T03:35:55Z I am now convinced that these imponderables pale in comparison to the question of the truffle. ‘The Truffle Hunters’ Review: In Dogged Pursuit of Culinary Gold 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The great imponderable was whether Back to Black would have connected so strongly with listeners if Winehouse had not simultaneously been playing out her emotional dramas in public. Amy Winehouse obituary 2011-07-23T19:08:11Z He does not want to face the imponderable complications of this possible relationship. Perspective | Ask Amy: DNA reveals half-sibling, but Dad doesn’t want to know 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Within moments, as she gazes into his face, as if searching for the imponderable, and he storms off, these two actors summon up the transformative, unhealed pain of a devastating loss. Movie Review: Frank Langella in ‘Robot & Frank’ 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z These imponderables are consciousness in the sense of sentience or subjective experience, the self, free will, conceptual meaning, knowledge and morality. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Yet it is in this most crucial, central story that the script falters, lapsing into the conventions of true crime shows and police procedurals in which a forensic expert tries to explain imponderable acts. Review: Carey Mulligan Tells a Harrowing Tale of ‘Girls & Boys’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z In terms of human society, that is just an imponderable span of time. Searching for Our Urban Future in the Ruins of the Past 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z He adds, however, that there are "imponderables" in the council data, including the fact that people turned back by so-called greeters outside polling stations were not included in the published figures. Local elections 2023: Thousands didn't vote due to ID rule, data shows 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z And then, the corollary: If we know so much less and think so much less, what of the imponderable essential of human society — of wisdom? Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Kampe's point was that too many players are caught up in their past achievements or distracted by the imponderables of the future. The Ironman unbroken by a bomb 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In truth, most admit it's just too early to tell amid numerous imponderables about the likelihood of recession unfolding and fuzzy debates about what would constitute a hard or soft landing. Column: Markets won't give up the ghost: Mike Dolan 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Healthcare is a field that presents practitioners with a multitude of imponderables on a daily basis — with women’s reproductive healthcare, especially, in the gun sights of the right wing. Column: A spineless Walgreens bows down to antiabortion crusaders 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr Smith was more reluctant to consider what he called an "imponderable" question. The California storms were great for wine 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The reason is a mix of exaggerated ambition and imponderable events. Juventus face 2023 of financial & legal uncertainty 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The endgame of the Russian attack remains an imponderable as I write. Column: Musk's genius, Putin's prowess and other victims of the Year of Fails 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Can’t do anything about the sheer messiness of being an object of desire or, to quote the man himself, “the imponderable of being a human being.” Review | What Paul Newman wanted us to know about him — or perhaps didn’t 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z The political environment is also an imponderable factor. Column: That big tech exodus out of California turns out to be a bust 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The greatest imponderable of all remains the ultimate outcome, for Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the world. Opinion | The atrocities inflicted on Ukrainian civilians must not go unanswered 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The key imponderable in the sanctioning of Russia may be how long the coordinated financial attack can hold. Column: How Western sanctions could demolish Putin's 'Fortress Russia' 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Among the imponderables surrounding geopolitical isolation is how countries react to becoming ostracized. Column: Can sanctions stop Russia? History says it will take time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “How are you supposed to weigh such imponderables such as the marginal burden on the exercise of First Amendment rights against the marginal assistance in preventing corruption?” he asked. Supreme Court seems likely to side with Sen. Ted Cruz in campaign finance case 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Unlike so many imponderable questions that surround death, these may indeed have answers. 750,000 dead: In too many families, unity in pain but division in mourning 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest of many imponderables about Donald Trump has always been the question of what playbook was he following? Trump's Big Lie is the new Lost Cause — and it may poison the country for decades 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z “I know there are certain imponderables this time. So, it’s a bit of an uncertainty, I guess,” Beach said. Boston Marathon ironman Ben Beach eyeing extension of streak 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Activists have often stressed health concerns in an effort to dodge moral imponderables. Across Latin America, abortion restrictions are being loosened 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z One imponderable in predicting the course of an Elder governorship is how his accession to the job will itself affect the state’s political dynamics. Column: The hallmark of a Larry Elder governorship might be powerlessness 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z In other words, it depends on imponderables, so there is no definitive answer. Assessing the Mariners’ trade-deadline moves after a two-week cool-down period: It’s complicated 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z This is just one of the imponderables from a review that will leave England fans with as many questions as answers. Does England's Six Nations review add up? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z What we will do about it is the imponderable.” 'A very dangerous epoch': historians try to make sense of Covid 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Nolan’s latest may well be full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, or it may signify something imponderably resonant, and signify it forward, backward and inside out. Review: 'Tenet' has arrived. But is it spectacular enough to lure you back to movie theaters? 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z It is often the writer’s purpose to explore questions that are otherwise imponderable. Opinion | Beware insidious messaging about who lives and who dies 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z In these uncertain times, however, we have swiftly become accustomed to pondering imponderables. Ryder Cup could be a battle between a dozen captain's picks apiece | Ewan Murray 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Help is such an amorphous concept, especially in a game awash in so many imponderable variables that its practitioners have sworn to the efficacy of soft metal bracelets and magnetic necklaces. Golf equipment truths: How to know when you should consider irons geared for a better player - Golf Digest 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z When the Schumann stopped, though, the evening passed from the imponderable to the interminable. Sorrowful Songs at the White Light Festival 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But he adds that “you and I and Mark Zandi should take a humility pill here. We still live in a world of imponderables, and these are very rough navigation tools.” Analysis | The Finance 202: Economists project Trump will win easily in 2020 — and by a bigger margin 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Environmentalism is all deadline: if those who oppose action can procrastinate by fixating on imponderables – which of us is sufficiently without sin? – then their victory will be total. When calling out environmental hypocrisy is nothing but a cynical ploy | Zoe Williams 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps the biggest imponderable is whether the public will shun the Max once it returns to the skies, probably starting in the U.S. in August. Can Boeing CEO Muilenburg engineer a recovery course amid 737 Max crisis? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Jonathan Franzen said much the same, in this magazine, in 2015, describing climate change as a “usefully imponderable” problem compared to the threat of mass extinctions. A New Generation of Activists Confronts the Extinction Crisis 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z “He’s in one of those deep, dark moments where he’s pondering the imponderable,” said one close adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity to preserve their relationship. Joe Biden faces the existential question: Is there a market for his 2020 campaign? 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z “At the government level the decision was reached that there are simply still too many open questions and imponderables with this SPV,” Guschelbauer said. EU plan to enable non-dollar Iran trade, oil sales unraveling:... 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The 47-year-old Dane knows that too, but if anyone is equipped to deal with the many imponderables he will wrestle with over the weekend, it is him. Golf: Win or lose, Europe captain Bjorn will do things his way 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z And then he said will to fight is an imponderable, which is why we undertook this study. Why do people die fighting for a cause? 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z A billion years from now, “Voyager could be captured by an advanced civilization of beings that don’t exist yet … It’s literally imponderable what will happen to the Voyagers,” he said. NASA, PBS marking 40 years since Voyager spacecraft launches 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z One of the great imponderables in climate science is how long forests will continue to buffer climate change as CO2 levels continue to spiral. Sci-fi forest tracks carbon impact - BBC News 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z There also are imponderables: If freedom from driving themselves means people are more willing to travel by car, an overall increase in miles traveled suggests there will be more crashes. When driverless cars crash, who gets the blame and pays the damages? 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Her United Parcel Service Inc. driver showed up so often to her New Hampshire home that her 8-year-old daughter started pondering the imponderable. Those Ads That Follow You Around the Internet Are Ruining Christmas 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The planning is thorough, the intentions are good, but there are many imponderables. What next after the Jungle? - BBC News 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Both projections depend on a host of imponderables. Back to the future: economy becomes battle between Reagan and Bill Clinton 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z An election is imponderably complicated, so that the probabilities are largely a matter of guesswork. A 10-Foot Poll 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Probably not — when you factor in a guaranteed income’s imponderable, but likely dampening, effect on incentives to seek a job, especially entry-level work, when earnings are lowest. Is a guaranteed minimum income just money for nothing? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z To contemplate these versions side by side is to enter into the imponderables of art, the adjacent claims, when it comes to portraiture, of accuracy and artful arrangement, plain fact and wise condensation. Alan Hollinghurst on Edmund White's gay classic A Boy’s Own Story 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z A more immediate imponderable is the effect of the blocking of the route through the Balkans. Opening back up 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z If you budget just one second for each planet in Hello Games’ imponderable No Man’s Sky, you’ll still spend 5 billion years visiting them all. It Would Take 5 Billion Years to Explore This New Game 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The real imponderable is what would happen if Trump trained his verbal guns on the former secretary of state, and her alone, and fired them like this: The Trump campaign speech that could beat Clinton this fall 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Great, poetic, imponderable – or base evolutionary drive dressed up for the sake of polite society? How do I … fall in love? 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z How much influence reviews have on sales is utterly imponderable. ‘Big books by blokes about battles’: Why is history still written mainly by men? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z I admit it: I’ve spent much of the past twenty-four hours pondering these imponderables. Donald Trump vs. Fox News: The Big Picture 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z After joining villagers for weeklong New Year celebrations, the bank’s Ms. Kami thinks she has all imponderables covered. South Pacific Defies Credit Squeeze with Crops and Cattle Collateral 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z And an entire industry has been created by people guessing at imponderables and charging large sums of money for their guesses. Stock Market Ends Sharply Lower as Worries About Economy Surface 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z It is currently an imponderable and a trophy in the cabinet is still enough to warm the hearts of most disgruntled fans. What now for Van Gaal and Man Utd? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z But for English cricket fans, it's not only about the brawn, but also about imponderables such as verve, timing and charisma. Stokes: The boom or bust all-rounder 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The imponderable is whether fellow European leaders will let her. Angela Merkel is right: the migration crisis will define this decade | Natalie Nougayrède 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z But the next few weeks will still be instrumental when it comes to deciding the final couple of places, and that's before the great imponderable - injuries - are thrown into the equation. Crunch time for England hopefuls 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Substantial evidence points to Frank’s innocence, Oney says, but “there are imponderables that are always going to be imponderables.” A century after lynching, town still wrestles over history 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z There are many imponderables, and many pitfalls lurking on the road ahead. How Iran fell out with the West - BBC News 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The only question that remains is the big imponderable: How much have the Derby and Preakness taken out of him, and will he have enough left for the skirmish around Big Sandy? Which horses could spoil American Pharoah's bid for Triple Crown glory? 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z As the IMF authors accept, this is an area in which imponderables abound. Waste not, harm not 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But there are many imponderables about these assumptions by Labour. Labour and that £2.5 billion for the NHS 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z “Risks is not the right term, but there are some imponderables,” Mr. Conrad added. China’s Economy Puts New Pressure on a Changing Job Market 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Not so long ago, the annual imponderable was whether Few would jump to another job — to Stanford, to UCLA, to Arizona, to his alma mater at Oregon. This ground-breaking Gonzaga team just might be paving the path for even better teams 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Of course, in the case of RFK there were many more imponderables. Tel Aviv Diary: Israelis Are Asking, Where Is Today’s Yitzhak Rabin? Mark Weiner, Vienna ● In David Ignatius’s Sept. 19 op-ed column, “Understanding the enemy’s ‘will to fight,’ ” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested that predicting the Iraqi army’s will to fight is an “imponderable.” Battling the Islamic State And into this otherwise two-way political street comes the new kid on the blog, UKIP, arguably the biggest imponderable of all. From chess to chance in politics 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z And to his credit, Wilson offers the kind of grand sweeping essays that we usually get piecemeal in books typically written by theoretical physicists pondering the imponderables. E.O. Wilson Searches For The Meaning Of Human Existence 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z But with advances in nanotechnology and IT, there are many imponderable outcomes. Q&A: The sci-fi optimist : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z A forgiving schedule will help, but those are significant imponderables. Maybe this is the crux of the Pac-12: Which teams will be worse? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Any estimate of the actual dollar loss from piracy comes up against imponderables — how many infringing viewers would actually pay, and how much, if they could not see a film free? Hollywood’s Antipiracy Efforts Add New Voice 2014-03-31T00:55:10Z There really are so many imponderables piled one on top of another that assessing the likely outcomes next May looks less and less like a chess game and more and more like a mug's game. From chess to chance in politics 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Within this tangle, the destinies of the two Britons may provide a metaphor, albeit writ small, for the broader complexities and imponderables facing Western powers in their diminishing support for the rebels in Syria. Letter From Europe: Drawn Into the Tangle of Syria’s War 2013-12-19T12:04:43Z The real imponderable is why Hollande and his government do not act with the same decisiveness at home as abroad. Insight: Weak at home, France seeks grandeur abroad 2013-11-25T10:21:46Z Some people call farmers gamblers because they are always betting on or against an imponderable: the weather. Farmers Believe They Can Dodge Climate Risk, Wary of Regulations 2013-09-12T17:45:08.430Z It is these imponderables that international law cannot resolve. Three Key Questions on Syria 2013-08-30T19:15:00Z By comparison with all the other imponderables on the Middle East map right now, it looks almost simple. In Search of the Obama Doctrine 2013-07-26T08:45:00Z If the patient finds the decision imponderable, the fall back no longer is “What would you do, doctor?” The Scientific Basis for Choosing to Be a Patient: Forearmed Is Forewarned 2013-05-29T17:45:02.630Z Why quibble over share of market imponderables in smartphones, tablets and mini tablets? Apple Ain't The Next Polaroid 2012-11-12T23:03:42Z You may not be able to do much about the fiscal cliff or other imponderables. Grab the $5M Gift and Estate Tax Perk: It's Gone In 2013 2012-11-10T17:33:44Z A big imponderable is whether Khaled Holmes is able to play, and play effectively at center for USC after spraining his ankle. Thursday-night lights: The pick 2012-10-04T16:12:35Z And then the other problem is rather more imponderable: because of the earthquake last year, questions are being raised about the energy future of Tokyo.” Tokyo, Istanbul or Madrid: Who Will Host the 2020 Summer Olympics? 2012-09-06T08:05:25Z It’s just one of those imponderable things that you can’t know.” Republican National Convention reworking schedule because of Tropical Storm Isaac 2012-08-26T18:55:00Z It wasn’t heavy lifting — they spend most of their autumns pondering the imponderable anyway. College Football Trash Talk Is Now Open for Business 2012-08-25T20:00:04Z Such is the imponderable nature of these decisions that no doubt even the artistic director, Kim Gavin, would struggle to provide a rational explanation. Rewind TV: Olympics Closing Ceremony; Accused; The Best of Men; Ruth Rendell's Thirteen Steps Down – review 2012-08-18T23:05:45Z The headwinds remain fierce, from imponderables related to the latest wave of the euro crisis and European banks' retrenchment to U.S. fiscal uncertainty and a spluttering of growth engines in the big emerging economies. Analysis: Flagging world economy relying on unstable energy boost 2012-07-09T11:55:54Z And soon, a playoff, with a whole new set of issues and imponderables: The controversy is just beginning. New college football playoff system feels like a compromise 2012-06-28T03:08:53Z But it also carried risks and imponderables for both sides. Queen Elizabeth Shakes Hands With Former I.R.A. Commander 2012-06-27T10:40:02Z The only imponderable was the inevitable reliance on others to seize the day. 50 stunning Olympic moments No 42: Michael Phelps goes big in Beijing 2012-06-25T12:55:26Z Referring to "political imponderables" involved, the barrister contended that only offences committed in Britain and Ireland should qualify. McGeough case judgement reserved 2012-06-22T15:03:59Z The great imponderable, for all concerned, remains home advantage. London 2012: Colin Moynihan plays down great expectations for Team GB 2012-06-21T11:43:55Z But performance experts admit that it is the biggest imponderable facing British athletes, with some expected to wilt under the spotlight and others to thrive. London 2012 Olympics: Team GB sign up first celebrity cheerleaders 2012-06-12T06:00:05Z The other imponderable is one of those questions we don’t ask often enough: how big can an island be and still have an island dwarfism/gigantism effect? A drowned nesting colony of Late Cretaceous birds 2012-05-16T18:16:34.020Z The fluid was imponderable, because the most careful experiments failed to show that heat produced any increase in weight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z In the very nature of things a great cause must ever be imponderable and invisible. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z But in modern times even the physicists have found matters grow thinner in their hands: they have come upon imponderable matters, like heat, light, &c., to which they might perhaps add space and time. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z There are also what Garfield calls, "the immeasureable, imponderable" effects of the disaster. Japan's Post-Fukushima Earthquake Health Woes Go Beyond Radiation Effects 2012-03-02T21:15:00.213Z Or it may seem utterly evasive in its significance at the moment, as it were indecipherable and imponderable, waiting to receive from the future its meaning and its weight. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z From ledge to ledge he dropped, over hair-raising deeps of transparent air, with a precision and ease that made it seem as if his sturdy frame was as imponderable as the air itself. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z The conception of abstract imponderable forces by the human mind is a very slow process. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Now it was Juana that was legendary, and Florida resembled the significant hooked finger of an imponderable power. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z I bottle this imponderable extract of the loitering summers of youth, when every occasion really seemed to stay to be gathered and tasted, just for the sake of its faint sweetness. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z The medium in which the phenomenon of flight is produced—the air—is an invisible, impalpable, comparatively imponderable fluid, and its density is nearly 800 times less than that of water. Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences 2011-11-24T03:00:42.240Z But there had always been something imponderable, something monstrously bleak, which had thrown itself, like a great cloak, between the warm light of that body and the grim reality of Bemis Corners. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z The other imponderable is whether Fielder has any interest in joining a team that has staked almost permanent claim on last place and currently doesn't have anyone in the lineup to offer ample protection. In free agency, big-ticket hits usually matched by big misses 2011-09-25T00:34:53Z The whiteness of the buildings, too, even where they were not illuminated, defined spaces never obscure; the city was never wholly lost, obliterated by the imponderable blackness of the north. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z “We were just saying it’s strange that there’s no roof here when all the other major venues have a roof,” said Richard Young, who had plenty of time on his hands to ponder the imponderable. The Open?s Missing Piece2011 U.S. Open: Building a Roof Would Come With Many Challenges 2011-09-08T01:54:14Z The laws of statics are contradicted by a thousand incidents in physics; a fluid overthrows the most stupendous mountains, and so proves that the heaviest substances may be upheaved by imponderable agents. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The moon appeared just clear of the lofty parapet of the well, and poured down to us an imponderable rarity of bluish fire. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Most of the things that path-finders leave behind them are imponderable. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z The book begins with an imponderable one-word question, centered on the card, posed by a visitor from Newcastle, England: “Why?” Bookshelf: Books Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 2011-08-27T23:05:15Z The chief visible outcome of His work was the little band of Apostles; but the mightiest of His influences were imponderable and unseen. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z The sentiment of good will is as much a fact, though imponderable, as any other fact, and is a force of immense consequence. Japan and the California Problem 2011-07-25T02:00:13.940Z A state of mind wherein things are weighed in an imponderable scale; a conjunction of two negatives in a void. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z From a cause which as yet has been indistinguishable and imponderable, what important, what marvellous results loom in the future! On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z For this is literally the case; these animals seemed to be as white as snow, as imponderable as thistledown. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z So all organs of sense possess unmistakable evidence of having proceeded out of those electric forces that are unseen and imponderable. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z But his longer term legacy is more imponderable. What is Osama Bin Laden's place in history? 2011-05-03T11:53:34Z He felt all but imponderable as he strode along by his friend in the clear moonlight and the bracing air from the river. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z The imponderable is how much more will come from the opposition in the next 15 months. British sprint and pursuit teams are grateful for bronze mercies 2011-03-23T23:22:40Z Matter exists, perhaps, in many forms, but may be classified, as the ponderable matter of earth, known directly through the senses, and, as the imponderable matter which cannot be sensed directly by man. A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-14T03:01:04.693Z He lay on a couch as imponderable as ether. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z These fluids are real, actual, perceptible, but imponderable. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z Once the resort asks for money for future losses, which it plans to do, there are more imponderables. Should BP?s Money Go Where the Oil Didn?t? 2010-10-23T23:31:00Z They converge on San Diego each summer to dress up, swap old Ant-Man comics and ponder imponderables like “Klingon Lifestyles”: What is life really like on one of those scary space vessels? Scene Stealer: Why Hollywood Marketers Still Flock to Comic-Con 2010-06-26T19:45:00Z "There are so many imponderables over whether its liabilities would be capped or not." Delays in sealing oil pipe fan doubts on BP's survival 2010-06-02T21:31:00Z The one imponderable remains the health of the Glazers' businesses in the US. Fury of Old Trafford faithful not enough to force boardroom to sell up 2010-05-20T06:00:00Z If the economy is governed by historical happenstance, not timeless laws, and subject to imponderable contingencies, not calculable risks, then the economist may have precious little to say. Economics focus: Twin peaks 2010-04-15T10:52:00Z The intriguing imponderable at the heart of it all is whether people create systems, or systems create people. 2010-02-08T10:39:00Z When he came from the little close there was a new mystery in the sunshine, a fresh and joyous meaning in the intense blue overarching of the imponderable sky. The Valiants of Virginia She shrugged her shoulders, and he felt the faint movement tremble through the imponderable form he held. Sinister Street, vol. 2 That sensation of boundless, imponderable wreckage crushing upon him sent him back to his chair where for a moment he sat, sunk down, stripped of his power and his will. The Guarded Heights His whole body felt like an imponderable thing over which he had little control. The Cottage of Delight A Novel He was a good subject for speculation because imponderable and inexistent. A Bed of Roses We speak of this as an independent, imponderable, elementary body, but how little we yet know of it. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes They were up against the imponderable—sheer inspiration. The Underpup But only with her eyes could she tell him, and as, her finger-tips on his, she jumped from the step, she was imponderable as the blush upon her cheeks. Plashers Mead A Novel Franklin supposed that electricity was a subtle, imponderable fluid, of which all bodies contained a certain normal quantity. The Telephone An Account of the Phenomena of Electricity, Magnetism, and Sound, as Involved in Its Action But at the Tree's root, where Thag's essential being merged from the imponderable to the material, rooting in earthly soil, he should be vulnerable if he were vulnerable at all. The Tree of Life Soon they would surpass in grandeur the uttermost planets, whose orbits they, invisible and imponderable, would traverse without disturbing. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels It was deeper than any of these, a subtle manifestation of character as elusive and imponderable as a beam of light or the expression on a man's face. Command It hung there, huge and imponderable, and swung around with the Station in its silent orbit. Derelict Yet how did he prove that some imponderable element does not leap from wood in flame? Old Plymouth Trails He knew intuitively the futility of firing up into Thag's imponderable mass. The Tree of Life Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The wind will drive away every thing imponderable, leaving only the heavy sands, to drift in storms, like fields of snow. Alexander the Great Makers of History The strange ship was a variant, an imponderable factor thrown suddenly into his small world of hatred and bitterness, forcing him into unknown territory, throwing his mind into a welter of doubts and fears. Derelict Something was materializing; an imponderable ghost of something was taking form. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 All this room—Mary lying beside me, the mechanism, myself—all this was imponderable, intangible, unreal. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 How did he know of that imponderable ether in which the stellar universe is said to float? Christ, Christianity and the Bible His head felt imponderable; and yet he could not hold it up. The Quality of Mercy He recognised it in a moment as less imponderable than it might have appeared, as having indeed positive claims. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II The cage-room was humming, and glowing like a wraith; things seemed imponderable, unsubstantial. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 The last would regard the ether in the planetary spaces, not as a specific imponderable fluid, but as a highly attenuated expansion of air, gas, or other matter, having all the functions of ordinary matter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Partly through our Puritan origin, partly through our preoccupation with the development of the material resources of our country, we, as a people, have failed to cultivate some of the imponderable things of the spirit. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College An imponderable was a mysterious something like a spirit, which was the cause of certain phenomena in matter. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena I watched the sea—marveled at its grace, softness, dimpled dark beauty, its vast, imponderable racing, its restless heaving, its eternal motion. Tales of Fishes Progress in physics has been marked by bold hypotheses dealing with imponderable forces, and by experiments disclosing hidden properties of matter. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war The semi-materialistic idealism of Milton was a gross and clumsy medium compared to the imponderable ether of "The Over-soul" and the unimaginable vacuum of "Brahma." The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index "An august joy shone in the sky, and the vague sensation of space, of the infinity of those imponderable worlds, filled their spirits with a delicious calm." Rosinante to the Road Again That part of the philosophy was no clearer than that of the imponderables, which had largely dropped out of mind. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena He made experiments to discover imponderable matter; I believe, with regard to the ethereal medium. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville An instant later, hands cool and imponderable as snowflakes rested on his forehead, and silken strands of hair brushed it softly as his wife leaned over him, nestling her head against his own. Captain Desmond, V.C. But he does, for he begins by assuming infinite space filled to the farthest with matter ponderable and imponderable, and forthwith proceeds to weigh, measure, and divide the latter as though it were finite! The New Theology Blocked—held by some imponderable, yet impenetrable wall. The Last Evolution Until the middle of the present century the reigning physical philosophy held to the existence of what were called imponderables. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena The lantern light fell on the gaunt, bitter countenance of his wife framed in imponderable night. Mountain Blood A Novel Comets seem to be almost imponderable when estimated by such robust masses as those of the earth, or any of the other great planets. The Story of the Heavens There are too many imponderables: you are, to a certain degree, expendable. A Place in the Sun It is true that the creation and annihilation of which they speak concern the movement or the energy, and not the imponderable medium through which the energy and the movement are supposed to circulate. Creative Evolution The phenomena of heat were explained as due to an imponderable substance called “caloric,” which ordinary matter could absorb and emit. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena It was hot and steamy in the valley, no stars were visible; the known world, muffled in a close and imponderable cloak, was without any sign of life, of motion, of variety. Mountain Blood A Novel But let me cease to stir this imponderable dust. A Small Boy and Others She knew that there were things she could do, concessions she could make, sacrifices, a thousand facile extensions of the limit, a thousand imponderable infidelities to the perfection she adored. The Creators A Comedy The moon made that cold stone phantom imponderable, a grey mirage. The Tragic Bride Electricity and magnetism were imponderable fluids, which, when allied with ordinary matter, endowed the latter with their peculiar qualities. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena The whole scheme of these important sciences rests on the hypothesis of "electric fluidity," or of imponderable matter of which the existence is nothing less than proved. Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel The waiting was the most difficult; too many imponderables did not allow for unemotional thinking. The Defiant Agents She seemed to take shape slowly in the white whirling snow, as white and imponderable.… Black Oxen Please believe me, the political life of an entire people—particularly when that people is scattered throughout the entire world—can be set in motion only with imponderables floating high in the air. The Jewish State One can, without difficulty, form a mechanical conception of the whole series without assuming imponderables, or fluids or forces. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena The od, a new imponderable, a sort of electricity, is perhaps nothing else. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life How do we know that it is imponderable? Aether and Gravitation The action of electricity, heat, light, or some other mysterious imponderable agent, on these proximate principles, may produce globules, or germinal vesicles. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' I am, however, quite willing to discuss with Mr. Martineau the alternative hypothesis, that an imponderable formative soul unites itself with the substance after its escape from the liquid state. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 A hot body was one which had absorbed an imponderable substance. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena Because the atom, the thing once demonstrated 'the final division of matter,' is itself an illusion, made up of the intangible and the imponderable. The Tyranny of the Dark We have not the slightest reason to believe that Aether is imponderable. Aether and Gravitation The destined victims were thereby informed that European domination rested not only on disregard of the moral "imponderables" but on diplomatic bankruptcy as well. The New World of Islam To elucidate the question, let us consider the parallel relation of other imponderable forces to matter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Light was another imponderable substance, the existence of which was maintained by Sir David Brewster as long as he lived. The Machinery of the Universe Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena Matter was for the moment as subtle, as imponderable as soul. The Tyranny of the Dark At all events the onus of proof rests with those who assert it is imponderable. Aether and Gravitation He also realised that, off somewhere in the sphere of imponderable influences, the effect when his hand clasped the big man's hand had been exactly that of the clashing of two swords. Sally of Missouri The principle of consciousness is another imponderable force which pervades the universe. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 I want you to devote the imponderable force of the intellect to that concept until you understand it thoroughly. Masters of Space At any rate, though we are inspired by an especial subtle essence—or imponderable, I think—that pervades the twentieth century, we have not the superstition that we are offering anything as a positive fact. The Book of the Damned Electricity is sometimes described as an ‘invisible imponderable fluid,’ but that is not quite correct, because a fluid is a substance. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables Is or is not that which is called magnetic effluvia a something, a stuff or a substance, invisible and imponderable though it be?... Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution He never understood what Bismarck called the "imponderables". The Masques of Ottawa I'll devote the imponderable force of the intellect to the problem and check with you later. The Galaxy Primes His face was impenetrable and his expression imponderable. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels The Korean expedient, adopted out of battlefield necessity, carried out haphazardly, and based on such imponderables as casualties and the draft, passed the ultimate test of traditional American pragmatism: it worked. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 The imponderable ground of the banana grove was rising. The White Invaders Taken as a whole, however, these people with a sense of the imponderable human value of natural ways and natural things may constitute the most powerful support available for thoughtful planning and conservation. The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior "Once they bump against that 'imponderable quantity,' the mice will trouble you no more." Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers Every letter which came from the absent sister did inclose some imponderable unmounted photograph, with comments. Girls and Women Thus the magic of personal influence of all kinds would have radiated from it in omnipresent and colliding circlets forever, as the mighty imponderable agents are believed to radiate from some hidden focal force. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 But they remained only apparitions, imponderable wraiths, non-existent save that they could be dimly seen. The White Invaders Thus, stealthily, inexorably, a habit creeps upon a man; enclosing him mesh by mesh in a network imponderable as spun silk, tenacious as steel wire. The Great Amulet The trouble is that he resists the instant he feels the magnetic current, which makes con-centrating very difficult and takes so much of the imponderable quality out of one—" "Emma! Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers Its noiseless machinery cuts, and carves, and moulds, in the imponderable material of ideas. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales It is one of those "imponderables" which, as Bismarck said long ago, must never be left out of account in estimating national forces. Fighting For Peace Opposing forces, each imponderable to the other so that no physical contact had yet been made. The White Invaders An almost imponderable quantity of this essential oil will suffice to aromatize a gallon of water. Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Think what the result would have been had that 'imponderable quantity' hit you fair and square. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers Do not all those marvellous and subtle forces known to the older chemists as the imponderable elements, without which not even the inorganic crystal is possible, proceed from the rays of light? The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Justine Brent had one of those imponderable bodies that seem a mere pinch of matter shot through with light and colour. The Fruit of the Tree For myself I recall a chill of inward horror; a revulsion as though around me were pressing unknown things; unseeable, imponderable things menacing us all. The White Invaders There was no visible imperfection to detract from its charm; but, gazing on her, Whitmore felt something lacking, something spiritual, imponderable, yet immediately detected and missed. The Substitute Prisoner If in an infinite space of imponderable fluid a vortex is generated, the central parts are rarefied, and the exterior parts are unchanged. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence Invisible, imponderable, quickening with vigorous motion, slackening in rest and sleep, passing quite away in death, it is the most obvious sign of life. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America For such imponderables he had no scales, and he cared more for the kind of knowledge that was practically useful than for the interior improvement of the mind, which constitutes what we call a gentleman. Lectures on Modern history It became an imponderable wraith, resting dimly visible in a sort of borderland upon the fringe of its own world. The White Invaders Additional imponderables are the degree of saturation of the ground at the time of the event and the possibility of weather conditions conducive to the spread of fire. An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake: Findings and Actions Taken Prepared By Federal Emergency Management Agency Now, we shall never get an adequate definition of that imponderable term—humour—a term which, perhaps, was invented to be the eternal theme of budding essayists. Studies in Early Victorian Literature This imponderable factor, which often baffles our calculations, always remains the true, permanent driving force. Catholic Problems in Western Canada Hand in hand march the visible and the imponderable forces of this earthly life. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul The mystery of the transformation of the ethereal, imponderable forces into the vital and the mental seems quite beyond the power of the mind to solve. The Breath of Life It is colorless, and may be said to be imponderable. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. The subtlest forms of matter, as commonly known, are the imponderables—light, heat, magnetism, and electricity. Tales of the Chesapeake Immediately on tasting the drug, his body became imponderable, and he began to rise heavenward. China and the Chinese Motion is most easily produced by the lighter species of matter; and yet imponderable agents, such as electricity, possess force sufficient to overturn the weightiest structures. Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher The force of caloric is imponderable and invisible, and is only known by its effects. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 Within our own recollection the imponderable was a tenet of physics, and this was indeed, in spite of all the enlightenment of science, a mythical entification of forces. Myth and Science An Essay I never felt I was beneath the imponderable pressure of a prison's wall till then. Romance No more when twilight fades from tower and tree Shall I conceal what still remains of thee Lest that the housemaid or, perchance, the cat Should mischief thee, imponderable pat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 It has remained for the scientific investigators of our age to enter into the secret parts of nature and lay bare to the understanding many of the hitherto unknown facts relating to the imponderable agents. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World Whatever happens, he is sure to find always these same three great, imponderable obstructions in the way of his being beautiful—the humdrum millionaires, the iron-machines, and crowds. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy The invisible, imponderable, inaudible ether is beyond our apprehension; it transmits impressions 186,000 miles a second; it is millions of times more capable and energetic than air. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work He seemed miles away from her, separated by some imponderable yet impassable barrier. One Man in His Time This medium would, naturally—since it exists in what we call the void—be considered as imponderable. The New Physics and Its Evolution This century has been the epoch of investigation into the nature of the imponderable forces. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World It did not allow enough for what we may call the imponderable elements. The Unity of Civilization There is little enough wonder, if she actually carried that imponderable secret about with her. The Inheritors All such great souls are much more the makers of their age than its result; they are imponderable elements in civilization, not to be accounted for by anything outside of themselves. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The Luminiferous Ether: First idea of Ether due to Descartes—Ether must be imponderable—Fresnel shows light vibrations to be transverse—Transverse vibrations cannot exist in fluid—Ether must be discontinuous. The New Physics and Its Evolution Then the dome of night towered imponderable, immense, and the stars came back one by one, and the wolf-dogs mourned anew. A Daughter of the Snows The mythical ideas long entertained of the imponderable substances and vital forces peculiar to each mode of organization, have complicated our views generally, and shed an uncertain light on the path we ought to pursue. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Do we get nearer the truth or farther from it that we have got a gas or an imponderable fluid instead of a spirit? The Function of the Poet and Other Essays Is or is not that which is called magnetic effluvium a something, a stuff, or a substance, invisible, and imponderable though it be? Five Years of Theosophy Chance—that convenient ancient word to denote the interaction of many imponderable forces—has ruled one way in one place and otherwise in another. Ancient Town-Planning It was the accustomed and imponderable world, awfully unbalanced. If Winter Comes Figurative representations; mythical conception of imponderable matters, and the peculiar vital forces in every organism. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Belllounds seemed thick, imponderable, as if something had forced a crisis in him and his brain was deeply involved. The Mysterious Rider The spirit of life is electric and elective, and it is 'imponderable:' it can neither be weighed nor measured! Master of His Fate As the smoke drifts and shreds about your neb, your mind is surcharged with that imponderable energy of thought, which cannot be seen or measured, yet is the most potent force in existence. Shandygaff In that crystal air, instinct with its delicate, dominant implication of things imponderable, the personality of each persisted undisturbed, in a kind of adamantine unconsciousness. Romance Island The name of Degas, the pastels of Degas, the miraculous draughtsmanship of Degas created an imponderable fluid which still permeates Paris. Promenades of an Impressionist Essence is that imponderable part of being which includes the soul, the mind, the intelligence, in fact the entire mentality. Common Sense, How to Exercise It Some have called it 'od'—an 'imponderable fluid'—as you know; you and others wish to call it 'electricity.' Master of His Fate In short, when we make an attack, the whole weight of all imponderables, which weigh far heavier than material weights, will be on the side of our opponents whom we have attacked. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Over everything hung that imponderable essence that was clearer and purer than any light—"better than any light that ever shone." Romance Island The love of country is more invisible, more imponderable, more inappreciable than the electricity that fills the air and flows with perpetual variation from pole to pole of the earth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Exercise the imponderable, transcendental virtues of charity, morality, patience, energy, meditation, and likewise wisdom, in order that, having reached the farther shore of the sea of existence, you may become a Jina prince. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 Ether, my friend, is an agglomeration of imponderable particles, which, relatively to their dimensions, are as far removed from each other as the celestial bodies are in space, so say works on molecular physics. The Moon-Voyage He has been sensitive not to individual writers, but to that imponderable yet potent thing, the time-tendency in literature. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities It was as if he were summoning and discarding something shining and imponderable, like words. Romance Island In the course of reading them you will come upon many of those "imponderables" which are the secret soul of statecraft. George Washington Yet whether other beings, other presences, unmaterial, imponderable, intangible, did not walk the streets along with them, is open to doubt. Deadham Hard She asked the question most carelessly, lifting her imponderable handkerchief and letting it drop into her lap as a sign of how little her interest weighed. The Mettle of the Pasture It is itself an imponderable something; yet it carries weight with it. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers I suppose his genius was at its best when dealing with the pervasive imponderable ether that extends out from the earth into the vast planetary spaces in whose vibrations are conditioned the phenomena of light. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe While the method then used is different from that now in vogue, the medium employed for the transmission is the same—the ether, that mysterious, invisible, imponderable wave-conductor which permeates all creation. Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty On the right the twin ilex trees formed a mass of soft imponderable gloom. Deadham Hard And, with all this frivolous, imponderable grace, what an accent of verity he had! Overland In these imponderable and invisible matters, many are in a like case with Hamlet's mother, when she was unable to see the ghost of his father which he so plainly saw. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays From the white bench back of the first tee this cynic would rejoice mirthfully at topped or sliced drives or the wild swing that spends all its vicious intent upon the imponderable air. The Wrong Twin That great sense of sidereal and imponderable influences, which afterward manifested itself so clearly in the Seherin, probably made this change of place very unfavorable to her. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 But he has the vice of all German scientists; he doesn't understand imponderables. Mary Wollaston Rare drops fell from the cautious paddle and tinkled on the surface, overshot, not parted by, our imponderable passage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 From the clod and the rock up to the imponderable, to light and electricity, the difference is only more or less of selection and filtration. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 The ether, my friend, is an agglomeration of imponderable atoms, which, relatively to their dimensions, are as far removed from each other as the celestial bodies are in space. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Throughout the Middle Ages it was believed that there exists in man a bone imponderable, incorruptible, incombustible—the necessary nucleus of the resurrection body. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom It had simply affected his imagination, which was a consequence of the imponderable sort. Confidence It is a non-conductor of electricity, and suffers no change of properties from heat, or any other of the imponderable agents. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype Cancut was a jolly fatling,—almost too fat, if he will pardon me, for sitting in the stern of the imponderable canoe. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 He had reached the stage where his value as a social creature was a black and imponderable negative. The Beautiful and Damned Naked, stark, Her torso writhes enormous, and her knees Shudder against the shadowed Pleiades, Wrenching the night's imponderable arc. A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 It conveyed little re-assurance to his irritated conscience—it had become imponderable and impertinent. Confidence The effect of the potion had evidently worn off, because Jurgen found himself to be composed no longer of cool imponderable vapor, but of the warmest and hardest sort of flesh everywhere. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice Let us grant, then, that though it is imponderable and indivisible it must have a spacial content? Frenzied Fiction What were her imponderable emanations of goodwill and good intention when compared with the robust masculinity that was marching in firm phalanxes over solid ground toward the mastery of the great Problem? Under the Skylights When she had left the room, Sommers examined the few objects about him in the manner of a man who draws his conclusions from innumerable, imponderable data. The Web of Life He thanked God she was just the sort of imponderable infinite quantity, such as there were no stupid terms for, that he did feel. The Reverberator Jurgen jumped like a startled horse, and so violently that he flew out of bed, and found himself floating imponderably about the room. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice So mental action may be imponderable, intangible, and yet a real existence, and ruled by the Eternal through his laws. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Thus: the corporeal ponderable hand and arm raised with no other known causative antecedent, but a thought, a pure act of an immaterial essentially invisible imponderable will, is a miracle for a reflecting mind. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. He feared everything, for he had looked at the face no man can see unchanged-the imponderable face of a spirit. The Celtic Twilight The imponderable element of injustice in the situation consisted in the suppression of a fact which the directors concealed but concerning which, however, they made no representation, false or otherwise. Tutt and Mr. Tutt The pestilence vanished, as though it had come but to grant Monsieur Jolivet his silence, and to add a few score uncounted living wretches to the dark, mighty, imponderable host of ancestors. Dragon's blood As yet, we seem to be knocking at the portals of the chemistry of the imponderable. The Glands Regulating Personality He hadn't realized the extent to which he had been surrounded and confined, the imponderable mass of what he had not only been indifferent to but actually disliked. Cytherea What I might have gained is, in the scale, like imponderable air. Our Friend John Burroughs They were an attempt to knit together the chief imponderables of a world war. Public Opinion Was she actually panting when she left the stage—she, La Belle Louise, the ethereal, the spirituelle, the very imponderable dream of the dance itself? The Law of the Land It was characteristic of Henry Nelson, on the other hand, that he put no faith whatever in "imponderables," hence Gray's reference to morale, on that day of their first meeting, had amused him. Flowing Gold His effort to draw closer to them was proving a failure; what could he give them safer than their attachment to the imponderable body of public opinion and approval? Cytherea Whereas formerly man's mind was pre-eminently occupied by the liberation of the imponderable element through combustion, it now turned entirely to what goes on in the ponderable realm. Man or Matter It has been supposed by some that they are made of the most attenuated gases, so imponderable that if the earth were to pass through one of them we would be unconscious of the contact. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel There are too many imponderables for anyone to predict deficits or surpluses several years ahead with any degree of accuracy. State of the Union Address Aerial, imponderable, and like a sun-shot spider web oscillating in the breeze of summer, its hues change at every puff. Chopin : the Man and His Music And the ether is an imponderable substance, so impalpable that it passes right through all solids as though they were not there. The Blind Spot Where, we must now ask, do we find imponderable essence so much under the sway of gravity that it shows the correspondingly paradoxical features? Man or Matter Manifestly he came to her to get rid of the imponderable burden of the present. The Border Legion Another example of the imponderables that can make deficit projections highly questionable—a change of only one percentage point in unemployment can alter a deficit up or down by some $25 billion. State of the Union Address He viewed music through his temperament and it often becomes so imponderable, so bodiless as to suggest a fourth dimension in the art. Chopin : the Man and His Music If matter were infinitely divisible in this sense, its particles must be imponderable, and a million of such molecules could not weigh more than an infinitely small one. Familiar Letters on Chemistry This led to the conception of an imponderable agency capable of certain movements, and to denote this agency the Greek word ether was borrowed. Man or Matter Joan's perceptions of him, of the night, of the inanimate and imponderable black walls, and of herself, were exquisitely and abnormally keen. The Border Legion If no ghost resided in the melancholy ruin hard by, there might well be some imponderable hostile essence afloat in the still air of midday. South Wind There was something imponderable, fluid, vaporous, evanescent in his music that eluded analysis and eluded all but hard-headed critics. Chopin : the Man and His Music But the particles of that imponderable matter, which, striking upon the retina, give us the sensation of light, are not in a mathematical sense infinitely small. Familiar Letters on Chemistry What we observe, when we study the sun through a spectroscope, is not the sun itself, but the conditions obtaining in this border-region, where imponderable substance enters the earth-realm. Man or Matter An imponderable hand plucked away my garments of convention. The Red Planet In the past we have been thinking of the body as a solid and imponderable mass difficult to control and to change. Nature Cure Its imponderable essence had been absorbed into the clear ether as a drop of water sizzles into nothingness on a red-hot stove. The Gates of Chance This is enough to ensure the equilibrium of the almost imponderable atom. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects In the case of sulphur, the ponderable and imponderable entities appear to cling together; in the case of phosphorus, they seem to be anxious to part. Man or Matter Sublimed into imponderable vapour, I mingle and am lost in the endless foods of those vast globular volumes of vaporous mists, which roll upon their flaming orbits through infinite space. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth He rather liked the way Lottie had tried to weigh him in her balance and found him, as it were, of an imponderable levity. The Kentons Let us grant, then, that though it is imponderable and indivisible it must have a spatial content? Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy The imponderable moral factors had to be considered, chief of which was the popular support or opposition which Congress and the army might count upon under certain circumstances. The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England In this figure the shaded part represents the imponderable, the black part the ponderable entity. Man or Matter Thus the vulgar who call things after their effects and not from their causes, term the action of this imponderable love at first sight; the wise define it to be a phenomenon of ambericity. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance His hair, too, is imponderably fine, and his nails are not much harder than petals. The Children A full century of experiment, calculation, and controversy has thus sufficed to correlate the "imponderable fluids" of our forebears, and reduce them all to manifestations of motion among particles of matter. A History of Science — Volume 3 Your Static laws are at the mercy of a thousand accidents; a fluid can overthrow a solid mountain and prove that the heaviest substances may be lifted by one that is imponderable. Seraphita But to do this it was necessary to admit the existence of fluids intangible, invisible, imponderable, three negative terms in which the science of that day chose to see a definition of the void. Ursula The wind was now heavy, imponderable, no longer a swift, plastic thing, but solid, like an on-rushing wall. Light of the Western Stars It is as if your feet had been caught in an imponderable snare; you feel the balance of your body threatened, and the steady poise of your mind is destroyed at once. The Mirror of the Sea Necessarily the elder generation, to whom all forms of energy were imponderable fluids, must pass away before the new conception could claim the field. A History of Science — Volume 3 To know the Correspondences which exist between the things visible and ponderable in the terrestrial world and the things invisible and imponderable in the spiritual world, is to hold heaven within our comprehension. Seraphita Those foolish persons who deify all rather than admit a God recoil before the infinite divisibility of matter which is in the nature of imponderable forces. Ursula The broken voice, the withered neck, The coat worn out with care, The cleanliness of indigence, The brilliance of despair, The fond imponderable dreams Of affluence,—all were there. The Man Against the Sky The other class is composed of causes which are wanting in the properties just mentioned—namely, forces, called also imponderables, from the negative property that has been indicated. A History of Science — Volume 3 Confirmatory evidence that energy is a molecular motion and not an "imponderable" form of matter accumulated day by day. A History of Science — Volume 3 But, for that matter, the experiments that had established the mechanical equivalent of heat hardly left room for doubt as to the immateriality of this "imponderable." A History of Science — Volume 3 Terms fail to describe effects that have lately been rediscovered, for to-day the words imponderable, intangible, invisible have no meaning to the fluid whose action is demonstrated by magnetism. Ursula Current speech referred to the materiality of the "imponderables" unquestioningly. A History of Science — Volume 3 Magnetism, "vital fluid," and by some even a "gravic fluid," and a fluid of sound were placed in the same scale; and, taken together, all these supposed subtile forms of matter were classed as "imponderables." A History of Science — Volume 3 In effect, then, the physicist has dispossessed the many imponderables in favor of a single imponderable—though the word imponderable has been banished from his vocabulary. A History of Science — Volume 3 |
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