英语词汇“indefiniteness”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

This is exactly the kind of indefiniteness which New York courts do not allow to form the terms of a binding contract.” Trump Loses Case to Enforce Omarosa Manigault Newman’s N.D.A. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

My trouble with the paragon of French Romanticism was, and remains, the turbid indefiniteness of his style, which never really coalesces and which topples, at times, into wackiness. Delacroix’s High Performance 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

That uncertainty demands forensic examination of the painted surface, where much is illusory: “the apparent contours of Lisa's face dissolve into indefiniteness”. Art: Under Mona Lisa's smile : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

One irony is that notwithstanding his reputation, Mr. Cruz tends to nurture a careful strategic indefiniteness about his positions. Ted Cruz Likes Being Hated 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Were Alice’s ideas to make it over that first hurdle, they would still be subject to challenges for obviousness, lack of novelty or indefiniteness. Supreme Court Seems Wary of a Software Patent Case 2014-03-31T20:10:04Z

Similar indefiniteness of procedure is visible in the next attempt. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z

They serve as such; though our musical ancestors probably selected these terms because of their indefiniteness, which leaves a certain margin to our individuality. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z

It is impossible to give proper emphasis to all things in each lesson, and indefiniteness and monotony are the result. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z

The extreme indefiniteness with which the term "gold standard" is used has so befogged the relation which gold money bears to industry and commerce that people lose sight of the essential feature of that relation. Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 2012-02-29T03:00:21.727Z

It possessed the character of indefiniteness and mystery, full of sentiment and suggestion, that fascinates the imagination, and lends itself so easily to acts of contemplation and worship. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z

Edie asked, a little piqued at the indefiniteness of the answer. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z

In the former No. it was seen that the indefiniteness and mutability of the Calvinistic system had thrown a kind of irresponsibility around it; which renders this controversy, in many respects, extremely unsatisfactory. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z

If anyone relates a dream, has he any guarantee that he has told it correctly, and not changed it during the telling, or invented an addition which was forced by the indefiniteness of his recollection? A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z

In the indefiniteness of colloquial speech we constantly hear the phrase, "School Board education." English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z

On these embassies Blair had emphatically declined to take Jean with him, on account of the indefiniteness of the journeying. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z

The reasons for indefiniteness in determination usually lie in the failure of ancient authors to give sufficient or characteristic descriptions. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z

If; therefore, I should undertake to answer Mr. Tyler’s sermon, my strictures would consist chiefly in pointing out its indefiniteness and incongruity. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z

As concerns the indefiniteness of the dream, it is after all a characteristic like any other. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z

The Secularist, is without presumption of an infallible creed, is without the timorous indefiniteness of a creedless believer. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z

One of the marked deficiencies of all these descriptions of nature is in the indefiniteness of the terms employed. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z

Here, of course, arises a difficulty in finding examples which shall be at once simple and conclusive, for in almost all natural phenomena there is a certain indefiniteness which obscures the simple process. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z

It appears to me they use this term with great indefiniteness, if not latitude of meaning. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z

And there are other objects of psychiatric research which suffer from the same trait of indefiniteness, e.g., many compulsion ideas, with which even respectable and esteemed psychiatrists have occupied themselves. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z

A constant source of misunderstanding and mistake is indefiniteness of meaning. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z

The gulfs are so far below that you cannot measure their depth; they have the level perspective of the sea, the indefiniteness of the clouds, the hue of the sky. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z

When any of the four limits of indefiniteness is infinite the oscillation is infinite in the sense explained in � 7. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z

They receive their influence, as objections, rather from their indefiniteness and the ambiguity of terms, than from any intrinsic force. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z

All these primitive systems of expression are, however, subject to such indefiniteness and ambiguities, but it does not follow that we are justified in doubting their usefulness. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z

Totally to eliminate indefiniteness is impossible; to reduce it in extent and in force requires sincerity and vigor. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z

To him it seemed the bulk remained stationary, but its very indefiniteness left him doubting. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z

As with the "Manchester School," so with the term "Manchester men," it is used with a geographical indefiniteness; as when we speak of any one belonging to a shire instead of a town. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z

All is yet a delightful, luminous indefiniteness—sensation of streets and of men—like some beautifully tinted photograph slightly out of focus. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z

No longer framing her thoughts, lost in indefiniteness, prey to a heavy mental stupor, her hands lay weakly in her lap, her head thrown back, staring. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z

The phantoms of imagination have a vagueness, an indefiniteness of form, which moves a thousand times more than the clearness and distinctness of actual perceptions. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z

The only trouble with the "scheme" was its general indefiniteness. On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration 2011-05-15T02:00:09.877Z

They paused for a minute or two, calmly surveying the hillsides, and minutely scrutinising every object which had any indefiniteness or uncertainty about it. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z

Closely allied to indefiniteness is exaggeration of certain parts. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z

Of the details we know little: they are involved in indefiniteness, uncertainty, and doubt. The Discovery of America by the Northmen, 985-1015 2011-04-05T02:00:12.443Z

Flesh-color must remain a stranger to it: there would nothing more remain to communicate to it but the movement of poetry and the indefiniteness of music! Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z

What wonder that Ernest, nearing Denver, felt disheartened, oppressed by his aunt's opposition, and the indefiniteness of his relations with Eugenie. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z

There had been no indefiniteness about his prophecy. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z

The last crosses, hung with white drops, are lost in livid indefiniteness. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z

Yet there was another side to the question: the other officers were spontaneous and candid in their dealings with her, while obscurity and indefiniteness always seemed to have been impelling forces with Cummings. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z

There is about most of them a certain indefiniteness and what Dumas himself called the “colour of sour grapes.” Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z

But this admonition, by reason of its indefiniteness, has heretofore fallen dead upon the popular mind. A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People 2011-01-22T03:00:14.093Z

The affair of the release from her vows dragged on with wearisome indefiniteness. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z

Meanwhile, Dana Charteris was in danger—a danger that was more frightful because of the indefiniteness of its character. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z

Objections have been made to definite payment for labour in research, on the ground of indefiniteness of the results, and the impossibility of measuring their value. The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality 2010-12-30T03:00:25.567Z

His merit is rather that he was able to illume chaos, darkness, and presentiments by the very indefiniteness and the vague music of his soul. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z

Indeed, the practical difference to the botanist between species and varieties is the definite limitation of the one and the indefiniteness of the other. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools

That had been carefully left enveloped in a hazy indefiniteness that revealed no sharp or embarrassing angle of detail. The Tempering

And thus on occasion he falls into the very indefiniteness, the very excess he deprecates. The Vagabond in Literature

There was no indefiniteness about that "he;" there was only one "he" for Garda. East Angels

The indefiniteness of her knowledge by whom or why the attack had been made only made it seem more terrible to her. The Blind Man's Eyes

And westward, was not the eye guided by the grassy grandeur of the Pentland Range, until beauty was merged in indefiniteness across the wide strath lying like a painted scroll from Edinburgh to Linlithgow? Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series

So, too, the problems that arise when we penetrate farther and farther into the ever more and more minute, and the indefiniteness of our thought-horizons in general should have the same effect. Naturalism And Religion

If they show indefiniteness of aim—though indeed they hardly do show that in any marked degree—one cannot regard the fact as derogatory to the author. Life of John Keats

The indefiniteness of the boundaries between the three classes, and the free interchange of names, show how far they were from being definite offices or orders within the Church. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati"

This zoological spectacle is not confined to Dublin, but there appears to be a combination of strictness and indefiniteness of precedence belonging peculiarly to that place. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880.

They have discovered him never controlling, never creating events, but always yielding to them with rapid change, and sheltering himself from inconsistency by perpetual indefiniteness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.

Then observe the vagueness and indefiniteness of the accusation, founded on what in the nature of things was absolutely impossible to be known, except by overt action; founded on suspicion or conjecture of men’s thoughts. Talkers With Illustrations

Nature had censored observation by covering the spectacle with the mantle of indefiniteness. "And they thought we wouldn't fight"

Distant effects may be painted solidly and rather frankly, and then brought into a general indefiniteness by scumbling. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors

We have seen that music always has a carefully planned architecture—that being necessary by reason of the indefiniteness of the material. Music: An Art and a Language

That indefiniteness of literary aim—that want of willpower, without which genius is a curse, which have hampered the young man all along—are now still further emphasised by the restlessness of a passionate lover. A Day with Keats

It is seen from the indefiniteness and generality of the historical references, which must necessarily arise if the prophet referred, in like manner, to the whole of this lengthened period. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1

Were you baptized with the Holy Spirit?” it is quite likely that he would hesitate and falter and say, “I hope so”; but there is none of this indefiniteness in the Bible. The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit

Its indefiniteness shown by the serpent symbol, and the cross. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion

The form in which conception actually occurs to ordinary minds appears to derive value and preciousness from that indefiniteness which we � 2. Modern Painters Volume II (of V)

A general characteristic of inorganic matter is its indefiniteness of form, and this is also a characteristic of the lower organisms, as compared with the higher. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I

"The Messianic idea appears here in its generality and indefiniteness, without being as yet concentrated in the person of an ideal king," Hitzig remarks. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1

Since matter," says he, "is neither soul, nor intellect, nor life, nor form, nor reason, nor bound, but a certain indefiniteness; nor yet capacity, for what can it produce? An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus

"You state your case eloquently, Schumann," he said, "but my feelings revolt against darkness and indefiniteness." A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

The imagery has the indefiniteness of distant objects seen by moonlight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867

In organisms themselves this indefiniteness of mechanical reaction is clearly traceable. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I

In this passage, God first appears, twice in the indefiniteness of His nature, and then, specially, as the Angel concerned for Jacob and his posterity. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1

The peace which was at length brought about is remarkable for its indefiniteness. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)

In both cases Mr. Mill confounds infinity with indefiniteness. The Philosophy of the Conditioned

By the inaccuracy of surveyors, the confusion of maps, and the indefiniteness of charters, Baltimore believed himself entitled to a considerable part of the territory which was claimed by Penn, including even Philadelphia. William Penn

Beyond this analogy in the slight extent to which organization is carried, there is analogy in the indefiniteness of the organization. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I

There was a certain indefiniteness in her manner toward him which he felt a passionate desire to construe. The New Tenant

If we were to suppose each element ready to combine with any other indifferently, and indifferently in any quantity, we should have a world in which all would be confusion and indefiniteness. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive

It is obvious that there was great flexibility and indefiniteness in early theories of the soul. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

An inescapable element of indefiniteness contained in it. The Settlement of Wage Disputes

Natural selection having been compared with artificial selection, and the analogy pointed out, there apparently remains no indefiniteness: the inconvenience being, however, that the definiteness is of a wrong kind. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I

A whole chapter is devoted to a picture of a newspaper editor at work, inventing the phraseology of indefiniteness. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study

With this bag, this umbrella, and this costume, which has now become my wardrobe, I was cast out in all my indefiniteness upon a definite world.” The Associate Hermits

But, with their usual love of indefiniteness, they have determined that the choice shall be argued upon the basis that which comes first cannot be settled, and is of no consequence. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II

The indefiniteness of the residuary inheritance leaves room for surmise. Shakespeare's Family

That a misunderstanding of this kind is likely to grow up, becomes obvious when we bear in mind the great indefiniteness of primitive language. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I

It appeared, in the indefiniteness around it, singularly near and distinct. The Other Side of the Door

I have many qualities which I well know would promote my fortunes were they properly applied, but that application is difficult, for the reason that my principal mental characteristic 88 is indefiniteness. The Associate Hermits

In it the fluctuating forms vary with such unexampled indefiniteness and variability as to make all distinction of species quite illusory. Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel

This is supported by the absolute indefiniteness of the first as to part or parts in two messuages, and by the apparent definiteness of the second. Shakespeare's Family

There was no sun, and yet no visible cloud; there was nothing, indeed, to test the vision by; there was no apparent fog, but sight was soon lost in a hazy indefiniteness. Duffels

He pardoned her indefiniteness, for when she paused and hesitated she pressed her lips to his, and that assurance was enough for him. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916

Now, there is a great deal of indefiniteness in both those terms, 'race' and 'color.' History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

The Jesuit notion does not err on the score of indefiniteness. Fragments of science, V. 1-2

It has that definiteness of mood with that indefiniteness of circumstance in which music wins its most dignified prosperity. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions

Thus Nan had to reconcile herself to her disappointment and the indefiniteness of her father's return, in the thought that if her meeting with him was deferred, why, so was her parting from Miss Blake. The Governess

There is the queerest carpet on the floor, with irregular stripes of different colours mingling indistinctly with the grey groundwork, and all has faded into a pleasant indefiniteness of tint. Lady Betty Across the Water

All is yet a delightful, luminous indefiniteness—sensation of streets and of men,—like some beautifully tinted photograph slightly out of focus.... Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories

Once clear of the Albert Gate mansion, the barrister was bound to confess to a sense of indefiniteness, a feeling of uncertainty which seldom characterised either his thoughts or his actions. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective

It is true the danger was only hypothetical and undefined; but it was just this supposititious indefiniteness that caused the difficulty in providing against it. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse

It also results from a consciousness of the indefiniteness of the ground of all things, from the awe of the ambiguity of all that is. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

As long as the line was unsurveyed the natives could urge indefiniteness of territory as an excuse for murder and depredations—claiming that the other party was the trespasser. Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858

The car was open and of a tourist type, but even in that obscure light, for the night was moonless, an observer could hardly fail to have noticed a curious indefiniteness in its lines. Danger! and Other Stories

But this very indefiniteness, absurdity if you will, is a comfort both to the sufferer and to the physician. Preventable Diseases

Yet this would be a great help, for it is our lawless and uncertain thoughts, it is the indefiniteness of our impressions, that fill darkness, whether mental or physical, with spectres and hobgoblins. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American

It was thus of an emergency character and this fact combined with the indefiniteness prevalent during the autumn of 1917 to produce extreme confusion. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.

For, with all her wealth and power, Joyce often felt this "indefiniteness," as she called it. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls

The indefiniteness of feudal relations was a constant temptation to kings and other lords to carry their exactions and demands upon their tenants to an unreasonable and oppressive length. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

And, as another of the elements of this creation of beauty, there must be indefiniteness. Figures of Several Centuries

I need not tell you the irksomeness of business is much increased, and one's purposes unmanned by this indefiniteness. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859

This indefiniteness characterizes most of them; and the more impressive the diction, the greater vagueness in the statements made. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

It was the indefiniteness that Monte did not relish. The Triflers

I would ask my readers, as often I have asked myself, a question: Have these modern girls not lost much of the tender, waiting, indefiniteness of youth? Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards

Its euphony and indefiniteness of meaning were a charm to him. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2

On that subject his utterances had the same defect of indefiniteness. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

And in the indefiniteness of that answer he found an inexplicable joy. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail

He had spoken with such startling indefiniteness of the distance that I asked him how far it was to Wallencamp. Cape Cod Folks

It was the doubt and indefiniteness of the whole affair that made it so inexpressibly exasperating. Border and Bastille

The vagueness and indefiniteness with which this story abounds is not, therefore, that impressive obscurity which springs from the mysterious; it is, on the contrary, the obscurity of the unintelligible and absurd. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters

“I don’t think I agree with you,” she said, giving a shove to her soft elastic hair which did not improve the indefiniteness of the parting. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls

"Everlasting punishment" may mean, in philosophical strictness, a punishment absolutely eternal, or may be a popular expression denoting, with general indefiniteness, a very long duration. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

But it would be illegitimate if this quality of indefiniteness were disregarded, and the conclusion supposed to possess the same character of actual probability as it has of formal definition. A Candid Examination of Theism

Even then Althea had felt that the little hotel in Mayfair, with its transient guests and impersonal atmosphere, offered further breathing space for indefiniteness. Franklin Kane

Here the indefiniteness lies in the meaning of to "go around." The Recitation

Here the added shade of indefiniteness can hardly seem valuable to any but the author himself. George Borrow The Man and His Books

"What might we say of this word?" are objectionable on the score of indefiniteness. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education

The greater indefiniteness of the Historical compared with the Physical Method, both in its inductions and in its deductions, makes it even more difficult to work with. Logic Deductive and Inductive

Although loose thinking and indefiniteness of purpose characterize most of these various moves, a close analysis reveals two different underlying principles which support and explain them. Catholic Problems in Western Canada

Examples of indefiniteness growing out of such colorless words are found in the following questions, which are types of many asked in our schools daily:— What does water do when heated? The Recitation

In the view as found in Short there is none of this irregularity and indefiniteness of outline, the figure being perfect and standing out clearly as though just from the sculptor's hand. Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166

But that indefiniteness in policy was only apparent. Before the War

In short, it partakes of sentiment, emotion, uncertainty, indefiniteness, and infinity; of dreams and of the ideal. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers

But he developed with rapidity, and soon painted them in tones of blue and grey, so soft that the stars and the horizons merge into one lovely indefiniteness. The Book of Art for Young People

With this indefiniteness remedied, there is no longer any possibility of difference of opinion. The Recitation

The suggestion rather gains than loses by the indefiniteness of its appeal to the imagination. Anthropology

She might have grumbled, as Bismarck used to do, over our apparent indefiniteness. Before the War

And so we parted, with a thousand things unsaid, on a note of ineffectuality, of suspense, of vague indefiniteness. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy

With sadness and indefiniteness the Lord said, "He that eateth My bread lifted up his heel against Me": one who accepts My hospitality and partakes of the proofs of My friendship is My enemy. A Life of St. John for the Young

People with very marked qualities of character do sometimes get such distinctive titles, to rectify the indefiniteness of those they inherit and those they receive in baptism. A Great Emergency and Other Tales

And this indefiniteness is found in smaller matters. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

The extreme indefiniteness which, in conformity with the law of evolution, these first attempts exhibit, is anything but a reason for ignoring them. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library

Want of familiarity with the use of numbers, and lack of convenient means of comparison, must result in extreme indefiniteness of mental conception and almost entire absence of exactness. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development

But this indefiniteness does not fit it the less, but the better, as the inspiration to social reconstruction. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking

The rigid outlines of history fade in it to the indefiniteness of fable, and fact becomes as flexible as fancy. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

In "The Ancient Mariner" there are present in the highest degree the mystery, indefiniteness, and strangeness which are the marks of romantic art. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

About his own poetry there was always this indefiniteness. Initial Studies in American Letters

How much more impressive is the indefiniteness of our narrative! Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII

The vocabulary was Latinized because, in English, the mot propre is commonly a Saxon word, while its Latin synonym has a convenient indefiniteness that keeps the subject at arm's length. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century

The mystery, besides, with which their imaginations surrounded him, invested him with a power the greater, perhaps, on account of its indefiniteness. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times

These beliefs are surrounded by haze and indefiniteness. The Unity of Civilization

The letters of Junius and of Horace Walpole were familiar to him "in boyhood," we are assured with provoking indefiniteness by Mrs Orr; as well as "all the works of Voltaire." Robert Browning

All this nonchalant indefiniteness means nothing more, one suspects, than that the Brahmans have elected to keep the history of their country unknown to us poor Mlechhas. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19

A further distinguishing mark of the romantic spirit, mentioned by Dr. Hedge in common with many other critics, is the indefiniteness or incompleteness of its creations. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century

"I didn't find him a bit so," the girl said to Miss Pierce, later in the evening, with an indefiniteness which, if not merely feminine, must presuppose a previous conversation. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him

The circumlocution and indefiniteness of this letter led me to infer that there was something behind it which the writer had not stated. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885

It was partly on account of this indefiniteness, that the name of Illyrians had been entirely relinquished by modern philologists; until it was quite recently again token up by some Croatian and Dalmatian writers. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations

After some farther words—still of apology—for the 'indefiniteness' and 'general imbecility' of what we had to offer—all so unworthy a Bostonian audience—we commenced, and with many interruptions of applause, concluded. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850

If you will allow me so to express myself, there is in my own house, since you came, a sort of atmosphere of indefiniteness. The Way of a Man

"You will excuse my preference for a certain indefiniteness," said Nicolovius, with great sweetness. Queed

This substitution of the personal pronouns by honorifics makes possible an indefiniteness of speech that is exceedingly difficult for an Anglo-Saxon to appreciate. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic

That there is a greater indefiniteness in the aim of the sexual impulse at this period we may well believe. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion

"Oh yes—everywhere," answered the squire with equal indefiniteness. A Tale of a Lonely Parish

The elliptical form of this composition is seen again in "Death Crowning Innocence" and "The Dweller in the Innermost," and the same expressive indefiniteness and lowness of the colour tones. Watts (1817-1904)

It accounts for his love of exaggerated surfaces, his formless extravagance, his indefiniteness in structural design; possibly, too, for his inability, or let us say lack of sympathy, for the monumental. Promenades of an Impressionist

This certificate was of no force or effect, for its indefiniteness, as decided in other cases. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter

The youth sighed even more often, I do not know whether it was on account of the indefiniteness of her answers, or for some other reason. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

The answer is somewhat indefinite, it is true, but its indefiniteness is the chief element in the value of it. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind

It is compact, consistent, and not marred by his usual defect,—a certain mysticism or indefiniteness of thought,—but is clear and philosophical to the close. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859

He was one of those men whose indefiniteness provokes curiosity, and his friends noticed and wondered why it was that he was so frequently the theme of their conversation. Vain Fortune

Those last three months had impressed Katie with the tragic indefiniteness of the Chicago postmark. The Visioning

It is this indefiniteness of the content and form of the press which prevents the laws governing it from assuming that precision which one demands of laws. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

While dogmatism however is dangerous indefiniteness is unsatisfying. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore

Some of these eager spirits strove to rescue the body from what they evidently regarded as a paralysing indefiniteness. Unitarianism

To most persons on board, our voyage up these wide straits, after entering them at Point de Tour, had, in point of indefiniteness, been something like searching after the locality of the north pole. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers

While dogmatism however is dangerous indefiniteness is unsatisfying. The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore

Shortly we graduated from the indefiniteness of railroad maps to the intricacies of geological survey charts. The Mountains

This was my brother's first effort as a war correspondent, and I presume it was this fact and the very indefiniteness of the original plan that caused his mother and father so much uneasiness. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis

For a long while she had been oppressed by the indefiniteness which hung in her mind, like a thick summer haze, over all her desire to make her life greatly effective. Middlemarch

The whole performance, eloquent though it was, seemed to me largely shorn of its effectiveness of appeal, because of its indefiniteness. Love's Final Victory

Black patches of clouds cast a gloom over everything, and there was a vast indefiniteness to the dark spruce forest around us. The Long Labrador Trail

You have had too long an experience to admit of any glamour of indefiniteness about this thing. The Mountains

This train of thought was pursued till his aching mind sunk into indefiniteness. Vivian Grey

Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse. Middlemarch

In this matter there must be no indefiniteness, no chance for misunderstanding. The Leopard Woman

They have discovered him never controlling, never creating, events, but always yielding to them with rapid change, and sheltering himself from inconsistency by perpetual indefiniteness. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838

The wide range of special topics which these societies consider may give an appearance of indefiniteness to their aims. Outline of Universal History

With the sentiment of the stars and moon such nights I get all the free margins and indefiniteness of music or poetry, fused in geometry's utmost exactness. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

"Some Imitations"; there was a certain crudeness about the statement, a crudeness and an indefiniteness combined. The Woman with the Fan

The generous indefiniteness, which treats an hour more or less as of no account, is in keeping with that sense of endless leisures which it is one chief merit of the poem to suggest. Among My Books Second Series

I know," he writes in his "Marginalia," "that indefiniteness is an element of the true music—I mean of the true musical expression. A Study of Poetry

The former is answered with the indefiniteness which characterises prophetic chronology; the latter is plainly answered in verse 20. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke

It denotes the boundary line of the long ages of dimness and indefiniteness about two things--assurance of salvation in this life, and certainty of immediate blessedness in the life to come. Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord

Yet all this harshness and indefiniteness were nothing compared with his chief anxiety. The Possessed (The Devils)

The great prophecy of these verses in its indefiniteness goes far beyond its immediate occasion in the state of Judah under Ahaz. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah

He does not mean that the four hundred and ninety-first offence is outside the pale, but He suggests indefiniteness, endlessness. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII

The indefiniteness of the potentiality of the human faculties, and the complexity which thus attends their relations, lead unavoidably to occasional error. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Moreover, indefiniteness of equivalence among the groups is common to those which we know have been evolved, and to those supposed in the volume before us to have been evolved. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents

There was a charm also in the very indefiniteness and uncertainty of the objects of the expedition. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

But quite apart from this indefiniteness of attitude as to the meaning of immortality, it is scarcely possible to speak of a Jewish Eschatology at all. Judaism

It is distinctly employed as emphasising the contrast between the single death and the wide extent of its benefits; and in terms which, rigidly taken, simply express indefiniteness, it expresses universality. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII

The same faculty acts limitedly in ourselves at first, dictating the special act of sucking; afterwards it acquires indefiniteness. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Of the two, I think Niagara is the most impressive, perhaps because those aerial elements of foam and spray give that vague and dreamy indefiniteness of outline which seems essential in the sublime. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2

I have at times his vagueness, his indefiniteness, his irresolution, and his want of spirit when imposed upon. Our Friend John Burroughs

What do you conclude as to the indefiniteness of the term "socialism"? Problems in American Democracy

In this way the indecisiveness and political indefiniteness of the middle-class democratic elements would be overcome sooner or later by the working masses, with the help of our criticism. From October to Brest-Litovsk

It was confessedly neither broad nor deep, and a certain tag-rag indefiniteness of outline gave occasion afterwards to envious anti-Prahraners all about to make it out as only a swamp. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

There is such magnificent vagueness in the expectations that had driven each of us to sea, such a glorious indefiniteness, such a beautiful greed of adventures that are their own and only reward. Lord Jim

Uncertainty or indefiniteness in regard to national boundary lines has been the cause of much international strife, and was an important factor in the European war begun by Germany in 1914. Community Civics and Rural Life

This great tract, which may conveniently be called 'The Military Soudan,' stretches with apparent indefiniteness over the face of the continent. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

As soon as his countenance lighted with animation, it revealed a character rich in various possibility, a vital force which, by its bright indefiniteness, made some appeal to the imagination. Our Friend the Charlatan

It is to crib, cabin, and confine, within the limits of well-defined sensation and perception, ideas that are only tolerable when left in the utmost indefiniteness consistent with thought at all. Ex Voto

They illustrate that indefiniteness which is characteristic of Greek mythology, a theology with no central authority, no link on historic time, liable from the first to an unobserved transformation. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays

He has no definite message perhaps for the literal, but messages are all vital, as much, by reason of his indefiniteness, as in spite of it. Essays Before a Sonata

I think infinitely more of you for being so unreserved, especially since I too have been thinking much on the indefiniteness of the days to come. The Hand of Ethelberta

There was the usual irresponsible indefiniteness in detail. To Him That Hath: a Tale of the West of Today

It seemed to me that it must be some personal experience,—as if the writer had followed some dear friend there,—although it was with the unostentation and indefiniteness of true and delicate feeling. A First Family of Tasajara

Such were the marvels that the virgin of Alca performed in the morning of her glorious eternity; they had the sweetness and indefiniteness of the dawn. Penguin Island

Their indefiniteness is probably the reason why he singles them out, as especially incapable of being tested by experiment. Timaeus

"The indefiniteness consists in your imagining that I am free." Anna Karenina

What is instructive in all these facts is the indefiniteness of the boundary between honesty and dishonesty, even in the most petty cases. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students

Instead, he put it off with vagueness and indefiniteness and inquired after the family, particularly after Mrs. Morse and Ruth. Martin Eden

This indefiniteness of statement and relationship is probably only the opening phase of the new faith. God the Invisible King

The course of time, unless regularly marked by divisions of number, partakes of the indefiniteness of the Heraclitean flux. Timaeus

All that was painful in his relations with Anna, all the feeling of indefiniteness left by their conversation, had slipped out of his mind. Anna Karenina

It might be bad, this new position, but it would be clear; there would be no indefiniteness or falsehood about it. Anna Karenina

But of late new inner relations had arisen between him and her, which frightened Vronsky by their indefiniteness. Anna Karenina

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例句	indefiniteness This is exactly the kind of indefiniteness which New York courts do not allow to form the terms of a binding contract.” Trump Loses Case to Enforce Omarosa Manigault Newman’s N.D.A. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z My trouble with the paragon of French Romanticism was, and remains, the turbid indefiniteness of his style, which never really coalesces and which topples, at times, into wackiness. Delacroix’s High Performance 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z That uncertainty demands forensic examination of the painted surface, where much is illusory: “the apparent contours of Lisa's face dissolve into indefiniteness”. Art: Under Mona Lisa's smile : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z One irony is that notwithstanding his reputation, Mr. Cruz tends to nurture a careful strategic indefiniteness about his positions. Ted Cruz Likes Being Hated 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Were Alice’s ideas to make it over that first hurdle, they would still be subject to challenges for obviousness, lack of novelty or indefiniteness. Supreme Court Seems Wary of a Software Patent Case 2014-03-31T20:10:04Z Similar indefiniteness of procedure is visible in the next attempt. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z They serve as such; though our musical ancestors probably selected these terms because of their indefiniteness, which leaves a certain margin to our individuality. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z It is impossible to give proper emphasis to all things in each lesson, and indefiniteness and monotony are the result. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z The extreme indefiniteness with which the term "gold standard" is used has so befogged the relation which gold money bears to industry and commerce that people lose sight of the essential feature of that relation. Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 2012-02-29T03:00:21.727Z It possessed the character of indefiniteness and mystery, full of sentiment and suggestion, that fascinates the imagination, and lends itself so easily to acts of contemplation and worship. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Edie asked, a little piqued at the indefiniteness of the answer. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z In the former No. it was seen that the indefiniteness and mutability of the Calvinistic system had thrown a kind of irresponsibility around it; which renders this controversy, in many respects, extremely unsatisfactory. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z If anyone relates a dream, has he any guarantee that he has told it correctly, and not changed it during the telling, or invented an addition which was forced by the indefiniteness of his recollection? A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z In the indefiniteness of colloquial speech we constantly hear the phrase, "School Board education." English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z On these embassies Blair had emphatically declined to take Jean with him, on account of the indefiniteness of the journeying. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z The reasons for indefiniteness in determination usually lie in the failure of ancient authors to give sufficient or characteristic descriptions. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z If; therefore, I should undertake to answer Mr. Tyler’s sermon, my strictures would consist chiefly in pointing out its indefiniteness and incongruity. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z As concerns the indefiniteness of the dream, it is after all a characteristic like any other. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z The Secularist, is without presumption of an infallible creed, is without the timorous indefiniteness of a creedless believer. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z One of the marked deficiencies of all these descriptions of nature is in the indefiniteness of the terms employed. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Here, of course, arises a difficulty in finding examples which shall be at once simple and conclusive, for in almost all natural phenomena there is a certain indefiniteness which obscures the simple process. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z It appears to me they use this term with great indefiniteness, if not latitude of meaning. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z And there are other objects of psychiatric research which suffer from the same trait of indefiniteness, e.g., many compulsion ideas, with which even respectable and esteemed psychiatrists have occupied themselves. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z A constant source of misunderstanding and mistake is indefiniteness of meaning. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z The gulfs are so far below that you cannot measure their depth; they have the level perspective of the sea, the indefiniteness of the clouds, the hue of the sky. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z When any of the four limits of indefiniteness is infinite the oscillation is infinite in the sense explained in � 7. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z They receive their influence, as objections, rather from their indefiniteness and the ambiguity of terms, than from any intrinsic force. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z All these primitive systems of expression are, however, subject to such indefiniteness and ambiguities, but it does not follow that we are justified in doubting their usefulness. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Totally to eliminate indefiniteness is impossible; to reduce it in extent and in force requires sincerity and vigor. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z To him it seemed the bulk remained stationary, but its very indefiniteness left him doubting. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z As with the "Manchester School," so with the term "Manchester men," it is used with a geographical indefiniteness; as when we speak of any one belonging to a shire instead of a town. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z All is yet a delightful, luminous indefiniteness—sensation of streets and of men—like some beautifully tinted photograph slightly out of focus. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z No longer framing her thoughts, lost in indefiniteness, prey to a heavy mental stupor, her hands lay weakly in her lap, her head thrown back, staring. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z The phantoms of imagination have a vagueness, an indefiniteness of form, which moves a thousand times more than the clearness and distinctness of actual perceptions. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z The only trouble with the "scheme" was its general indefiniteness. On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration 2011-05-15T02:00:09.877Z They paused for a minute or two, calmly surveying the hillsides, and minutely scrutinising every object which had any indefiniteness or uncertainty about it. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Closely allied to indefiniteness is exaggeration of certain parts. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Of the details we know little: they are involved in indefiniteness, uncertainty, and doubt. The Discovery of America by the Northmen, 985-1015 2011-04-05T02:00:12.443Z Flesh-color must remain a stranger to it: there would nothing more remain to communicate to it but the movement of poetry and the indefiniteness of music! Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z What wonder that Ernest, nearing Denver, felt disheartened, oppressed by his aunt's opposition, and the indefiniteness of his relations with Eugenie. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z There had been no indefiniteness about his prophecy. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z The last crosses, hung with white drops, are lost in livid indefiniteness. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Yet there was another side to the question: the other officers were spontaneous and candid in their dealings with her, while obscurity and indefiniteness always seemed to have been impelling forces with Cummings. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z There is about most of them a certain indefiniteness and what Dumas himself called the “colour of sour grapes.” Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z But this admonition, by reason of its indefiniteness, has heretofore fallen dead upon the popular mind. A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People 2011-01-22T03:00:14.093Z The affair of the release from her vows dragged on with wearisome indefiniteness. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Meanwhile, Dana Charteris was in danger—a danger that was more frightful because of the indefiniteness of its character. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Objections have been made to definite payment for labour in research, on the ground of indefiniteness of the results, and the impossibility of measuring their value. The Scientific Basis of National Progress Including that of Morality 2010-12-30T03:00:25.567Z His merit is rather that he was able to illume chaos, darkness, and presentiments by the very indefiniteness and the vague music of his soul. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z Indeed, the practical difference to the botanist between species and varieties is the definite limitation of the one and the indefiniteness of the other. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools That had been carefully left enveloped in a hazy indefiniteness that revealed no sharp or embarrassing angle of detail. The Tempering And thus on occasion he falls into the very indefiniteness, the very excess he deprecates. The Vagabond in Literature There was no indefiniteness about that "he;" there was only one "he" for Garda. East Angels The indefiniteness of her knowledge by whom or why the attack had been made only made it seem more terrible to her. The Blind Man's Eyes And westward, was not the eye guided by the grassy grandeur of the Pentland Range, until beauty was merged in indefiniteness across the wide strath lying like a painted scroll from Edinburgh to Linlithgow? Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series So, too, the problems that arise when we penetrate farther and farther into the ever more and more minute, and the indefiniteness of our thought-horizons in general should have the same effect. Naturalism And Religion If they show indefiniteness of aim—though indeed they hardly do show that in any marked degree—one cannot regard the fact as derogatory to the author. Life of John Keats The indefiniteness of the boundaries between the three classes, and the free interchange of names, show how far they were from being definite offices or orders within the Church. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" This zoological spectacle is not confined to Dublin, but there appears to be a combination of strictness and indefiniteness of precedence belonging peculiarly to that place. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. They have discovered him never controlling, never creating events, but always yielding to them with rapid change, and sheltering himself from inconsistency by perpetual indefiniteness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Then observe the vagueness and indefiniteness of the accusation, founded on what in the nature of things was absolutely impossible to be known, except by overt action; founded on suspicion or conjecture of men’s thoughts. Talkers With Illustrations Nature had censored observation by covering the spectacle with the mantle of indefiniteness. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Distant effects may be painted solidly and rather frankly, and then brought into a general indefiniteness by scumbling. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors We have seen that music always has a carefully planned architecture—that being necessary by reason of the indefiniteness of the material. Music: An Art and a Language That indefiniteness of literary aim—that want of willpower, without which genius is a curse, which have hampered the young man all along—are now still further emphasised by the restlessness of a passionate lover. A Day with Keats It is seen from the indefiniteness and generality of the historical references, which must necessarily arise if the prophet referred, in like manner, to the whole of this lengthened period. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 Were you baptized with the Holy Spirit?” it is quite likely that he would hesitate and falter and say, “I hope so”; but there is none of this indefiniteness in the Bible. The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit Its indefiniteness shown by the serpent symbol, and the cross. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion The form in which conception actually occurs to ordinary minds appears to derive value and preciousness from that indefiniteness which we � 2. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) A general characteristic of inorganic matter is its indefiniteness of form, and this is also a characteristic of the lower organisms, as compared with the higher. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I "The Messianic idea appears here in its generality and indefiniteness, without being as yet concentrated in the person of an ideal king," Hitzig remarks. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 Since matter," says he, "is neither soul, nor intellect, nor life, nor form, nor reason, nor bound, but a certain indefiniteness; nor yet capacity, for what can it produce? An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus "You state your case eloquently, Schumann," he said, "but my feelings revolt against darkness and indefiniteness." A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy The imagery has the indefiniteness of distant objects seen by moonlight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 In organisms themselves this indefiniteness of mechanical reaction is clearly traceable. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I In this passage, God first appears, twice in the indefiniteness of His nature, and then, specially, as the Angel concerned for Jacob and his posterity. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 The peace which was at length brought about is remarkable for its indefiniteness. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) In both cases Mr. Mill confounds infinity with indefiniteness. The Philosophy of the Conditioned By the inaccuracy of surveyors, the confusion of maps, and the indefiniteness of charters, Baltimore believed himself entitled to a considerable part of the territory which was claimed by Penn, including even Philadelphia. William Penn Beyond this analogy in the slight extent to which organization is carried, there is analogy in the indefiniteness of the organization. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I There was a certain indefiniteness in her manner toward him which he felt a passionate desire to construe. The New Tenant If we were to suppose each element ready to combine with any other indifferently, and indifferently in any quantity, we should have a world in which all would be confusion and indefiniteness. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive It is obvious that there was great flexibility and indefiniteness in early theories of the soul. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV An inescapable element of indefiniteness contained in it. The Settlement of Wage Disputes Natural selection having been compared with artificial selection, and the analogy pointed out, there apparently remains no indefiniteness: the inconvenience being, however, that the definiteness is of a wrong kind. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I A whole chapter is devoted to a picture of a newspaper editor at work, inventing the phraseology of indefiniteness. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study With this bag, this umbrella, and this costume, which has now become my wardrobe, I was cast out in all my indefiniteness upon a definite world.” The Associate Hermits But, with their usual love of indefiniteness, they have determined that the choice shall be argued upon the basis that which comes first cannot be settled, and is of no consequence. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II The indefiniteness of the residuary inheritance leaves room for surmise. Shakespeare's Family That a misunderstanding of this kind is likely to grow up, becomes obvious when we bear in mind the great indefiniteness of primitive language. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I It appeared, in the indefiniteness around it, singularly near and distinct. The Other Side of the Door I have many qualities which I well know would promote my fortunes were they properly applied, but that application is difficult, for the reason that my principal mental characteristic 88 is indefiniteness. The Associate Hermits In it the fluctuating forms vary with such unexampled indefiniteness and variability as to make all distinction of species quite illusory. Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel This is supported by the absolute indefiniteness of the first as to part or parts in two messuages, and by the apparent definiteness of the second. Shakespeare's Family There was no sun, and yet no visible cloud; there was nothing, indeed, to test the vision by; there was no apparent fog, but sight was soon lost in a hazy indefiniteness. Duffels He pardoned her indefiniteness, for when she paused and hesitated she pressed her lips to his, and that assurance was enough for him. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Now, there is a great deal of indefiniteness in both those terms, 'race' and 'color.' History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States The Jesuit notion does not err on the score of indefiniteness. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 It has that definiteness of mood with that indefiniteness of circumstance in which music wins its most dignified prosperity. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Thus Nan had to reconcile herself to her disappointment and the indefiniteness of her father's return, in the thought that if her meeting with him was deferred, why, so was her parting from Miss Blake. The Governess There is the queerest carpet on the floor, with irregular stripes of different colours mingling indistinctly with the grey groundwork, and all has faded into a pleasant indefiniteness of tint. Lady Betty Across the Water All is yet a delightful, luminous indefiniteness—sensation of streets and of men,—like some beautifully tinted photograph slightly out of focus.... Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories Once clear of the Albert Gate mansion, the barrister was bound to confess to a sense of indefiniteness, a feeling of uncertainty which seldom characterised either his thoughts or his actions. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective It is true the danger was only hypothetical and undefined; but it was just this supposititious indefiniteness that caused the difficulty in providing against it. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse It also results from a consciousness of the indefiniteness of the ground of all things, from the awe of the ambiguity of all that is. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation As long as the line was unsurveyed the natives could urge indefiniteness of territory as an excuse for murder and depredations—claiming that the other party was the trespasser. Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 The car was open and of a tourist type, but even in that obscure light, for the night was moonless, an observer could hardly fail to have noticed a curious indefiniteness in its lines. Danger! and Other Stories But this very indefiniteness, absurdity if you will, is a comfort both to the sufferer and to the physician. Preventable Diseases Yet this would be a great help, for it is our lawless and uncertain thoughts, it is the indefiniteness of our impressions, that fill darkness, whether mental or physical, with spectres and hobgoblins. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American It was thus of an emergency character and this fact combined with the indefiniteness prevalent during the autumn of 1917 to produce extreme confusion. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. For, with all her wealth and power, Joyce often felt this "indefiniteness," as she called it. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls The indefiniteness of feudal relations was a constant temptation to kings and other lords to carry their exactions and demands upon their tenants to an unreasonable and oppressive length. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England And, as another of the elements of this creation of beauty, there must be indefiniteness. Figures of Several Centuries I need not tell you the irksomeness of business is much increased, and one's purposes unmanned by this indefiniteness. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 This indefiniteness characterizes most of them; and the more impressive the diction, the greater vagueness in the statements made. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria It was the indefiniteness that Monte did not relish. The Triflers I would ask my readers, as often I have asked myself, a question: Have these modern girls not lost much of the tender, waiting, indefiniteness of youth? Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards Its euphony and indefiniteness of meaning were a charm to him. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 On that subject his utterances had the same defect of indefiniteness. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 And in the indefiniteness of that answer he found an inexplicable joy. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail He had spoken with such startling indefiniteness of the distance that I asked him how far it was to Wallencamp. Cape Cod Folks It was the doubt and indefiniteness of the whole affair that made it so inexpressibly exasperating. Border and Bastille The vagueness and indefiniteness with which this story abounds is not, therefore, that impressive obscurity which springs from the mysterious; it is, on the contrary, the obscurity of the unintelligible and absurd. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters “I don’t think I agree with you,” she said, giving a shove to her soft elastic hair which did not improve the indefiniteness of the parting. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls "Everlasting punishment" may mean, in philosophical strictness, a punishment absolutely eternal, or may be a popular expression denoting, with general indefiniteness, a very long duration. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life But it would be illegitimate if this quality of indefiniteness were disregarded, and the conclusion supposed to possess the same character of actual probability as it has of formal definition. A Candid Examination of Theism Even then Althea had felt that the little hotel in Mayfair, with its transient guests and impersonal atmosphere, offered further breathing space for indefiniteness. Franklin Kane Here the indefiniteness lies in the meaning of to "go around." The Recitation Here the added shade of indefiniteness can hardly seem valuable to any but the author himself. George Borrow The Man and His Books "What might we say of this word?" are objectionable on the score of indefiniteness. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education The greater indefiniteness of the Historical compared with the Physical Method, both in its inductions and in its deductions, makes it even more difficult to work with. Logic Deductive and Inductive Although loose thinking and indefiniteness of purpose characterize most of these various moves, a close analysis reveals two different underlying principles which support and explain them. Catholic Problems in Western Canada Examples of indefiniteness growing out of such colorless words are found in the following questions, which are types of many asked in our schools daily:— What does water do when heated? The Recitation In the view as found in Short there is none of this irregularity and indefiniteness of outline, the figure being perfect and standing out clearly as though just from the sculptor's hand. Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 But that indefiniteness in policy was only apparent. Before the War In short, it partakes of sentiment, emotion, uncertainty, indefiniteness, and infinity; of dreams and of the ideal. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers But he developed with rapidity, and soon painted them in tones of blue and grey, so soft that the stars and the horizons merge into one lovely indefiniteness. The Book of Art for Young People With this indefiniteness remedied, there is no longer any possibility of difference of opinion. The Recitation The suggestion rather gains than loses by the indefiniteness of its appeal to the imagination. Anthropology She might have grumbled, as Bismarck used to do, over our apparent indefiniteness. Before the War And so we parted, with a thousand things unsaid, on a note of ineffectuality, of suspense, of vague indefiniteness. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy With sadness and indefiniteness the Lord said, "He that eateth My bread lifted up his heel against Me": one who accepts My hospitality and partakes of the proofs of My friendship is My enemy. A Life of St. John for the Young People with very marked qualities of character do sometimes get such distinctive titles, to rectify the indefiniteness of those they inherit and those they receive in baptism. A Great Emergency and Other Tales And this indefiniteness is found in smaller matters. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth The extreme indefiniteness which, in conformity with the law of evolution, these first attempts exhibit, is anything but a reason for ignoring them. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Want of familiarity with the use of numbers, and lack of convenient means of comparison, must result in extreme indefiniteness of mental conception and almost entire absence of exactness. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development But this indefiniteness does not fit it the less, but the better, as the inspiration to social reconstruction. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking The rigid outlines of history fade in it to the indefiniteness of fable, and fact becomes as flexible as fancy. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood In "The Ancient Mariner" there are present in the highest degree the mystery, indefiniteness, and strangeness which are the marks of romantic art. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century About his own poetry there was always this indefiniteness. Initial Studies in American Letters How much more impressive is the indefiniteness of our narrative! Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII The vocabulary was Latinized because, in English, the mot propre is commonly a Saxon word, while its Latin synonym has a convenient indefiniteness that keeps the subject at arm's length. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The mystery, besides, with which their imaginations surrounded him, invested him with a power the greater, perhaps, on account of its indefiniteness. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times These beliefs are surrounded by haze and indefiniteness. The Unity of Civilization The letters of Junius and of Horace Walpole were familiar to him "in boyhood," we are assured with provoking indefiniteness by Mrs Orr; as well as "all the works of Voltaire." Robert Browning All this nonchalant indefiniteness means nothing more, one suspects, than that the Brahmans have elected to keep the history of their country unknown to us poor Mlechhas. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 A further distinguishing mark of the romantic spirit, mentioned by Dr. Hedge in common with many other critics, is the indefiniteness or incompleteness of its creations. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century "I didn't find him a bit so," the girl said to Miss Pierce, later in the evening, with an indefiniteness which, if not merely feminine, must presuppose a previous conversation. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him The circumlocution and indefiniteness of this letter led me to infer that there was something behind it which the writer had not stated. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 It was partly on account of this indefiniteness, that the name of Illyrians had been entirely relinquished by modern philologists; until it was quite recently again token up by some Croatian and Dalmatian writers. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations After some farther words—still of apology—for the 'indefiniteness' and 'general imbecility' of what we had to offer—all so unworthy a Bostonian audience—we commenced, and with many interruptions of applause, concluded. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 If you will allow me so to express myself, there is in my own house, since you came, a sort of atmosphere of indefiniteness. The Way of a Man "You will excuse my preference for a certain indefiniteness," said Nicolovius, with great sweetness. Queed This substitution of the personal pronouns by honorifics makes possible an indefiniteness of speech that is exceedingly difficult for an Anglo-Saxon to appreciate. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic That there is a greater indefiniteness in the aim of the sexual impulse at this period we may well believe. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion "Oh yes—everywhere," answered the squire with equal indefiniteness. A Tale of a Lonely Parish The elliptical form of this composition is seen again in "Death Crowning Innocence" and "The Dweller in the Innermost," and the same expressive indefiniteness and lowness of the colour tones. Watts (1817-1904) It accounts for his love of exaggerated surfaces, his formless extravagance, his indefiniteness in structural design; possibly, too, for his inability, or let us say lack of sympathy, for the monumental. Promenades of an Impressionist This certificate was of no force or effect, for its indefiniteness, as decided in other cases. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter The youth sighed even more often, I do not know whether it was on account of the indefiniteness of her answers, or for some other reason. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The answer is somewhat indefinite, it is true, but its indefiniteness is the chief element in the value of it. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind It is compact, consistent, and not marred by his usual defect,—a certain mysticism or indefiniteness of thought,—but is clear and philosophical to the close. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 He was one of those men whose indefiniteness provokes curiosity, and his friends noticed and wondered why it was that he was so frequently the theme of their conversation. Vain Fortune Those last three months had impressed Katie with the tragic indefiniteness of the Chicago postmark. The Visioning It is this indefiniteness of the content and form of the press which prevents the laws governing it from assuming that precision which one demands of laws. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes While dogmatism however is dangerous indefiniteness is unsatisfying. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Some of these eager spirits strove to rescue the body from what they evidently regarded as a paralysing indefiniteness. Unitarianism To most persons on board, our voyage up these wide straits, after entering them at Point de Tour, had, in point of indefiniteness, been something like searching after the locality of the north pole. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers While dogmatism however is dangerous indefiniteness is unsatisfying. The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore Shortly we graduated from the indefiniteness of railroad maps to the intricacies of geological survey charts. The Mountains This was my brother's first effort as a war correspondent, and I presume it was this fact and the very indefiniteness of the original plan that caused his mother and father so much uneasiness. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis For a long while she had been oppressed by the indefiniteness which hung in her mind, like a thick summer haze, over all her desire to make her life greatly effective. Middlemarch The whole performance, eloquent though it was, seemed to me largely shorn of its effectiveness of appeal, because of its indefiniteness. Love's Final Victory Black patches of clouds cast a gloom over everything, and there was a vast indefiniteness to the dark spruce forest around us. The Long Labrador Trail You have had too long an experience to admit of any glamour of indefiniteness about this thing. The Mountains This train of thought was pursued till his aching mind sunk into indefiniteness. Vivian Grey Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse. Middlemarch In this matter there must be no indefiniteness, no chance for misunderstanding. The Leopard Woman They have discovered him never controlling, never creating, events, but always yielding to them with rapid change, and sheltering himself from inconsistency by perpetual indefiniteness. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 The wide range of special topics which these societies consider may give an appearance of indefiniteness to their aims. Outline of Universal History With the sentiment of the stars and moon such nights I get all the free margins and indefiniteness of music or poetry, fused in geometry's utmost exactness. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy "Some Imitations"; there was a certain crudeness about the statement, a crudeness and an indefiniteness combined. The Woman with the Fan The generous indefiniteness, which treats an hour more or less as of no account, is in keeping with that sense of endless leisures which it is one chief merit of the poem to suggest. Among My Books Second Series I know," he writes in his "Marginalia," "that indefiniteness is an element of the true music—I mean of the true musical expression. A Study of Poetry The former is answered with the indefiniteness which characterises prophetic chronology; the latter is plainly answered in verse 20. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke It denotes the boundary line of the long ages of dimness and indefiniteness about two things--assurance of salvation in this life, and certainty of immediate blessedness in the life to come. Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord Yet all this harshness and indefiniteness were nothing compared with his chief anxiety. The Possessed (The Devils) The great prophecy of these verses in its indefiniteness goes far beyond its immediate occasion in the state of Judah under Ahaz. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah He does not mean that the four hundred and ninety-first offence is outside the pale, but He suggests indefiniteness, endlessness. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII The indefiniteness of the potentiality of the human faculties, and the complexity which thus attends their relations, lead unavoidably to occasional error. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Moreover, indefiniteness of equivalence among the groups is common to those which we know have been evolved, and to those supposed in the volume before us to have been evolved. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents There was a charm also in the very indefiniteness and uncertainty of the objects of the expedition. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin But quite apart from this indefiniteness of attitude as to the meaning of immortality, it is scarcely possible to speak of a Jewish Eschatology at all. Judaism It is distinctly employed as emphasising the contrast between the single death and the wide extent of its benefits; and in terms which, rigidly taken, simply express indefiniteness, it expresses universality. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII The same faculty acts limitedly in ourselves at first, dictating the special act of sucking; afterwards it acquires indefiniteness. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Of the two, I think Niagara is the most impressive, perhaps because those aerial elements of foam and spray give that vague and dreamy indefiniteness of outline which seems essential in the sublime. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 I have at times his vagueness, his indefiniteness, his irresolution, and his want of spirit when imposed upon. Our Friend John Burroughs What do you conclude as to the indefiniteness of the term "socialism"? Problems in American Democracy In this way the indecisiveness and political indefiniteness of the middle-class democratic elements would be overcome sooner or later by the working masses, with the help of our criticism. From October to Brest-Litovsk It was confessedly neither broad nor deep, and a certain tag-rag indefiniteness of outline gave occasion afterwards to envious anti-Prahraners all about to make it out as only a swamp. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria There is such magnificent vagueness in the expectations that had driven each of us to sea, such a glorious indefiniteness, such a beautiful greed of adventures that are their own and only reward. Lord Jim Uncertainty or indefiniteness in regard to national boundary lines has been the cause of much international strife, and was an important factor in the European war begun by Germany in 1914. Community Civics and Rural Life This great tract, which may conveniently be called 'The Military Soudan,' stretches with apparent indefiniteness over the face of the continent. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan As soon as his countenance lighted with animation, it revealed a character rich in various possibility, a vital force which, by its bright indefiniteness, made some appeal to the imagination. Our Friend the Charlatan It is to crib, cabin, and confine, within the limits of well-defined sensation and perception, ideas that are only tolerable when left in the utmost indefiniteness consistent with thought at all. Ex Voto They illustrate that indefiniteness which is characteristic of Greek mythology, a theology with no central authority, no link on historic time, liable from the first to an unobserved transformation. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays He has no definite message perhaps for the literal, but messages are all vital, as much, by reason of his indefiniteness, as in spite of it. Essays Before a Sonata I think infinitely more of you for being so unreserved, especially since I too have been thinking much on the indefiniteness of the days to come. The Hand of Ethelberta There was the usual irresponsible indefiniteness in detail. To Him That Hath: a Tale of the West of Today It seemed to me that it must be some personal experience,—as if the writer had followed some dear friend there,—although it was with the unostentation and indefiniteness of true and delicate feeling. A First Family of Tasajara Such were the marvels that the virgin of Alca performed in the morning of her glorious eternity; they had the sweetness and indefiniteness of the dawn. Penguin Island Their indefiniteness is probably the reason why he singles them out, as especially incapable of being tested by experiment. Timaeus "The indefiniteness consists in your imagining that I am free." Anna Karenina What is instructive in all these facts is the indefiniteness of the boundary between honesty and dishonesty, even in the most petty cases. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Instead, he put it off with vagueness and indefiniteness and inquired after the family, particularly after Mrs. Morse and Ruth. Martin Eden This indefiniteness of statement and relationship is probably only the opening phase of the new faith. God the Invisible King The course of time, unless regularly marked by divisions of number, partakes of the indefiniteness of the Heraclitean flux. Timaeus All that was painful in his relations with Anna, all the feeling of indefiniteness left by their conversation, had slipped out of his mind. Anna Karenina It might be bad, this new position, but it would be clear; there would be no indefiniteness or falsehood about it. Anna Karenina But of late new inner relations had arisen between him and her, which frightened Vronsky by their indefiniteness. Anna Karenina
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