英语词汇“intelligibility”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Donovan’s muttered curses rose into intelligibility as he sprang to his feet, rusty eyebrows drawn low. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She plays tolling chords and hesitantly phrased melodies on the piano, while the words hover at the edge of intelligibility. The Playlist: Willie Nelson Is Still Standing, and 10 More New Songs 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

But its ability to tell a story is hampered by problems of intelligibility: a voice singing a tune, rather than on a single tone, is not ideal for conveying words. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z

With shadowy imagery that pushes the boundaries of visibility and a mumbly lead performance from Ben Foster that strains the limits of intelligibility, “Galveston” goes past film noir and lands at film murk. Review: In ‘Galveston,’ on the Run With Nowhere to Go 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Proponents of performing opera in English translation — in English-speaking countries, of course — say that intelligibility is their goal. Review: For Once, Singing of Complete and Utter Clarity 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

I’ve had the intelligibility experience too many times now to merely mention it as an aside, at the bottom of a review. Matilda, can you hear me? 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

“They wanted to increase the intelligibility of the hall,” explained Ellery Brown, the Kennedy Center’s senior vice president of operations. ‘Matilda’ complaints reflect Kennedy Center’s acoustic issues 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

There are nuggets of intelligibility in most songs. Bon Iver Steps Back From the Brink on ‘i,i’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

In pop, just as in opera, intelligibility can be a problem. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z

Yet we carry on, not just because intelligibility is our subject, but because the relationship between music and words is so compelling. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z

In that era, the idea of opera as drama was taken seriously, and intelligibility was essential. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

There’s a threshold at which the intelligibility of the amplified human voice becomes inversely proportional to its volume, McNinch explains. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: Hear! Hear! 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Those remarks sparked us to buy the new sound system — which was very important, because you need intelligibility for visitors to be really engaged with artists and curators in the gallery spaces. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: Hear! Hear! 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Almost to a man and woman, the company is so comfortably at home in the language that these are among the most consistently clear Shakespeare stagings I’ve seen, at least in terms of simple intelligibility. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z

Then again, anyone seeking clarity on anything shouldn’t look to Mr. Bay; cinematic intelligibility has never been in his wheelhouse. Review: In Michael Bay’s ‘13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,’ Clarity Isn’t the Objective 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

But they were certainly using the word to express the intimate relationship between the human mind and the glorious intelligibility of the universe. The beauty of the Higgs boson 2012-08-04T23:05:33Z

To great effect, this lack of narrative intelligibility challenges the implicit bargain between the film and viewer regarding the nature of the truth. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

It’s a little unclear what the pointy-hatted creatures are up to, but this new production from the Little Lord company doesn’t traffic in narrative intelligibility. Review: Rip Van Winkle Meets Creepy Gnomes in ‘Now Is the Time. Now Is the Best Time. Now Is the Best Time of Your Life.’ 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Enough words were lost to reverberation that intelligibility got eliminated. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

“There are a lot of people who mistakenly think intelligibility is the standard. ‘ 5 Common Words That Used to Be Totally Unacceptable 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

If you don't want intelligibility, what do you want instead? Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2012-06-13T07:00:01Z

Indeed, Christie's own residual longing for intelligibility ended up mucking up his own otherwise sick burn of Ramaswamy. Vivek Ramaswamy's 15 minutes are here, showing yet again all the GOP base wants is trolling 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z

She could identify that it's not just the jackhammer per se, but it's when someone is whispering something just outside a range of intelligibility. Is noise bad for us? The authors of "Golden" on why silence is good for your brain 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z

I appreciated its intelligibility and, from where I stood, its edge. Why I Keep Listening to Green Day’s ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Undecided voters are likely to be left even more confused and disheartened, and therefore less likely to vote, after watching the way Trump destroyed any semblance of coherence or literal intelligibility. Believe it or not, Joe Biden lost that debate. To save democracy, we need a champion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

The book still needs what Harriet, as a child, called “footmarks”—not to present incidentally interesting facts but, rather, to provide a basic intelligibility. Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin” 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

The team conducted tests with the model set inside an acoustic chamber, looking, for example, at speech intelligibility and air resonance. Scientists turn to 'laser accurate' model to test Stonehenge acoustics 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

To test intelligibility, the scientists asked hundreds of people to listen through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform and transcribe samples. Scientists create decoder to turn brain activity into speech 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

To address this problem, Anumanchipalli et al. developed easily replicable measures of speech intelligibility for human listeners, taken from the field of speech engineering. Brain implants that let you speak your mind 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

“Part of my argument with bel canto is that it runs roughshod over intelligibility,” the composer Eve Beglarian told me. Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

If your comments meet minimal standards of civility and intelligibility, I’ll post them in my book’s discussion section. Mind–Body Problems: My Meta-Solution to the Mystery of Who We Really Are 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

You’re working on a project about intelligibility issues in live theatre, TV, and film. A sound expert explains the past and future of the human voice 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Even coverage of just 10 to 20 percent can help bring the reverb trail time down to one second, meaning there is an increase in audio clarity and intelligibility. The secrets behind the audio for the Super Bowl halftime show 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Unlike the reconstruction error or previously used automated intelligibility measures6, this approach directly measures the intelligibility of speech to human listeners without the need for comparison with the original spoken words. Brain implants that let you speak your mind 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Stressing the need to use formal language in legally binding texts, he demanded government ministries avoid inclusive writing, “notably for reasons of intelligibility and clarity”. No more middots: French PM clamps down on gender-neutral language 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

To increase the intelligibility of the signals, we at METI—a research organization dedicated to Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence—crafted a mathematical and scientific tutorial within the transmissions. New Keys to Help Extraterrestrials Unlock Our Messages 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Ferguson emphasized that the study is the “first stab” at quantifying the intelligibility of British English to American listeners. Do British accents become unintelligible to Americans as they get older? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a consequence of frontman Zachary Cole Smith’s devotion to a specific, smothering sound: heavy-lidded bass lines, chiming guitar leads layered on top of each other like blankets, vocals dancing on the edge of intelligibility. DIIV's Is the Is Are is drowsy, disconcerting dream-pop 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

The intelligibility of the reconstructed speech was still much lower than that of natural speech. Brain implants that let you speak your mind 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

“Right now, with those loud people right behind me, we’re hearing only their reverb energy—it’s not enough for intelligibility. Early reflections have been cut out: you can hear voices but not what they’re saying.” The Photoshop of Sound 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

With companies like Narrative Science already developing applications that turn numerical data into verbal narratives, the importance of designing BI strategies with intelligibility in mind can’t be overstated. CenturyLinkVoice: 5 Keys To Good Business Intelligence 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Additionally, any person who does change radically from their language group will effectively be placing themselves outside it – if their changes are large enough to hinder their intelligibility to others. An Evolution Outreach: How Species Evolve Like Languages 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Speaking of the Russians, one video on her site, “The Solution to Putin’s Aggression: American Energy Development”, offers something that her Fox News appearances avoid with almost pathological determination: intelligibility. The Sarah Palin Channel is full of bugs, but maybe that's the whole point 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

The test for whether a particular dialect constitutes a separate language or not is usually mutual intelligibility. Are these the most endangered accents of English? 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

The speech pathologist would assess his understanding, his intelligibility, his general language development. Science Gave My Son the Gift of Sound 2014-04-25T15:25:03Z

It is the ideal of scientificintelligibility, which he disguises, by means of an inoffensive general formulation, as the whole of intelligibility itself. The Scientism Sermons 2013-09-22T13:29:00Z

The new equipment must also meet tougher intelligibility standards for communication. Improving Respirator Masks to Put Fresh Air in Reach 2013-09-09T18:21:17Z

He cited studies showing that four or five channels improve speech intelligibility. Well: The Hunt for an Affordable Hearing Aid 2012-10-25T22:19:28Z

A second needle would play the sound back as the patterned cylinder turned, via a hand crank, with a handy amplifying horn to enhance the intelligibility of the playback. Can You Hear Me Now? Sound Technology of the 19th Century 2012-07-23T18:45:00.417Z

Adult students of language should be guided by the “intelligibility principle,” not the old “nativeness principle.” The Science of Language: Accents Not the Key to Speaking Like a Native 2012-04-04T17:35:37Z

Plato believed in the intelligibility of the world, and so did Dante, and so did Maimonides and Aquinas and Al-Farabi, and so did Poussin and Bach and Goethe and Austen and Tolstoy and Proust. The Scientism Sermons 2013-09-22T13:29:00Z

As an engraver his work is more conspicuous for its vigour, spirit and intelligibility than for finish and beauty of line. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z

The principal requisites of Letters of Business are, intelligibility, legibility, and brevity. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z

Increase the diameter of those pipes, however, and there would be a corresponding decrease in intelligibility. Can You Hear Me Now? Sound Technology of the 19th Century 2012-07-23T18:45:00.417Z

Consequent love of order, light, intelligibility, and symmetry, leading to dislike of the wildness, darkness, and mystery of nature. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z

For those, on the other hand, who believe in the influence of discarnate spirits, this scheme affords a path of transition, and as it were a provisional intelligibility. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z

The Old Norse story is so important for its bearing on the intelligibility of the "Nibelungenlied" that it is absolutely necessary to take it actively into consideration in any discussion of the German poem. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z

A quiet, self-possessed manner, and intelligibility should be regarded as essential at such times. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z

His conclusions: the transmitted signal fell within the 200 hertz to 5000 hertz frequency range, which just so happens to also be an excellent range of frequencies for speech intelligibility. Can You Hear Me Now? Sound Technology of the 19th Century 2012-07-23T18:45:00.417Z

The frankly confessed mystery of the latter, its open appeal to miracle, places it at a fatal disadvantage with the Elder Orientalism, when the appeal is to reason and intelligibility. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z

They retain, however, the condition of intelligibility; the joke would lose all its effect if the allusion could not be traced back to the actual without any effort whatsoever. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z

Kant's idea that experience was an intelligible system was retained, but its intelligibility was not supposed to be wholly comprised in man's methods of knowing it. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z

They should be regarded as instruments by which new lines of inquiry are indicated; or by the aid of which a provisional coherency and intelligibility may be given to seemingly disconnected groups of phenomena. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z

Hence it is evident that the grammatical correctness or incorrectness of an expression depends upon its intelligibility, that is to say, upon the ordinary use and custom of a particular language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z

Whether this be an invention or not, it well characterizes his easy intelligibility. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z

There is some reason to believe that the syllogistic form, as a test of valid arguments, may be entirely dispensed with, if we can secure accuracy of data, and intelligibility in terms. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z

But as Kant's unity of apperception became for Green merely a symbol of the world's inherent intelligibility, the latter did not regard it as an actual process of synthesis. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z

The notion is, he declares, erroneous because it contains only half the truth, and a half of the truth which is of no value or interest or intelligibility except when joined to the other half. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z

Deronda himself is a prig of the first water; while Gwendolen is self-contradictory all through—like a tangled skein of which you cannot find the end, and therefore cannot bring it into order and intelligibility. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z

Its intelligibility depends chiefly on the difficulty of forging anything like it;—its credit much on national character, but ultimately always on the existence of substantial means of meeting its demand. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z

It also gives new conceptions of the "intelligibility of nature," which is but a modern scientific term for religion or the reliance on the will and wisdom of Creative Deity. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z

From him things derive at once their intelligibility and their being. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z

An advisory discussion outside, too low-voiced for intelligibility, ended in a fourth demand for admittance, knuckled to carry to the rear of the house and waken any sleeper within. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z

On the Divine Mind they depend essentially for their reality and intelligibility. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

His chief aim in writing was plainness and intelligibility, but his want of order and logical precision thwarted his purpose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z

Yet these great thinkers, seeing the intelligibility of nature, its uniformity of laws and operations, without a knowledge of electricity were forced to this conclusion. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z

The only place he mentions the prose writer is in the seventeenth section, where he says that the prose writer usually aims only after intelligibility and clarity, while the poet seeks also to be vivid. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z

If intelligibility appears in things, it does so like beauty or use, because the mind of man, in so far as it is adapted to them, finds its just exercise in their society. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z

Their intelligibility is something apart from any relation to any actual time or place. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z

Electoral Commission minute, 22 September, 2009 - "Scottish government officials confirmed... that there was currently no provision to consult any organisation as to the intelligibility of the referendum question." SNP reject 'rigging' vote claims 2010-02-22T13:48:00Z

And in this particular instance, there is a want of coherency and intelligibility in Saxo's account, which in itself affords a strong presumption that it is imperfect. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

But we are speaking of the foundation of a belief—not the intelligibility of a language. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846

The question which it raises and which has afflicted us even to the present day is not primarily the question of fact, but the question of intelligibility, as the controversy over mindstuff abundantly attests. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude

I know of no book in this direction that can claim to be a permanent success which combines a tolerable intelligibility with a simple good faith in the reader. Underground Man

The range of literary excellence, of spiritual connotation and of intelligibility of subject matter in the so-called Gnostic hymns is so wide that it is difficult to evaluate them. Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries

It was useless for Christ to declare what could not be apprehended by human faculty, and His own human faculty was the measure and test of intelligibility. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I

Interference was scrambling the telecast waves beyond hope of intelligibility. Beyond The Thunder

Now, distinctness—intelligibility, at all points, is a primary feature in my general design. Eureka: A Prose Poem

A zoological theory seems suddenly to have thrown light and intelligibility into the most diverse provinces of knowledge. Naturalism And Religion

If you watch any object as it fades in distance, it will lose gradually its force, its intelligibility, its anatomy, its whole comprehensible being; but it will never lose its gradation of light. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V)

Some of his alterations were in the direction of greater intelligibility. Noah Webster American Men of Letters

Here as everywhere in printing the great purpose is to secure plainness and intelligibility. Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36

It is not to be supposed that anyone was to be found who denied the general intelligibility of Nature. God and the World A Survey of Thought

The latter, however, are not weakened, that is, “attenuated,” as much and consequently do not need to be amplified as much to give good intelligibility at the distant receiver. Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son

Kielland, on the contrary, as inherently, has throughout unmistakably an air of savoir vivre, in the long run much surer in its appeal to us outside of Norway because of its more general intelligibility. Skipper Worse

One is apt always to generalize too quickly in such matters; but there can be no question that luster is destructive of loveliness in color, as it is of intelligibility in form. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners

All that is required is brevity and intelligibility. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890

Doubtless, the simplicity and intelligibility of its creed—one God, one prophet, one book—commends Mohammedanism to the minds of many. India, Its Life and Thought

One is apt always to generalise too quickly in such matters; but there can be no question that lustre is destructive of loveliness in colour, as it is of intelligibility in form. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing

What is it, they ask, but barefaced crazy unreason, the negation of intelligibility and law? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

The old fashioned dress in which these acute strictures on human life appear, while it takes little or nothing from their intelligibility, adds much to their force and liveliness. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

The free act is incommensurable with the idea, and its "rationality" must be defined by this very incommensurability, which admits the discovery of as much intelligibility within it as we will. Creative Evolution

A book should have either intelligibility or correctness; to combine the two is impossible, but to lack both is to be unworthy of such a place as Euclid has occupied in education. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

He proceeds by applying to one sphere language and principles from another, and to which they can have no possible application, and where they have no intelligibility. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative

So of the unintelligibilities: call them means of intelligibility, and what further do you require? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

My object has been to combine intelligibility with precision; technical terms lack the former quality, popular terms the latter. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics

The primary facts upon which rests intelligibility in reading are emphasis and inflection. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide

The incidents of the life, the successions of the biographical detail, are but slightly traced, no farther, in fact, than is requisite to the intelligibility of the praises. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1

“So far as that is concerned,” said he, “I should think that I—” and his voice quite lost intelligibility. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic

No attempts had yet been made to bring even the best of these various writings to order and intelligibility. The Shadow World

To attain scholarly accuracy combined with practical intelligibility was, then, the task of the translator. Early Theories of Translation

Those who have denied the intelligibility of the universe have not been able to dispense with the very organ by which their argument is conducted. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics

But I do not choose to temper down every expression of personal opinion into courteous generalities, and so lose space, and time, and intelligibility at once. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature

It is the twofold characteristic, of universal intelligibility and indiscriminate adoption of materials, that gives the novel its place as the great reformer and leveller of our time. An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times

That element was the people's song, with its symmetrical cadences and its universal intelligibility. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present

When we are happy we cannot say so with any degree of intelligibility: in such a context the spoken word is miserably inadequate, and must be supplemented by some bodily antic. Here are Ladies

There is on the front next the town, however, some attempt at simplicity and intelligibility of plan; for there is a vast open court lined by buildings, which have been commenced in the Grecian style. Recollections of Europe

Many of them will require much study and preparation before they can be read with that precision of expression which is necessary to perfect intelligibility. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886

Amid all the varying and contradictory phenomena of the universe there is something which gives coherence and intelligibility to them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

It is true that between the early and the latest compositions of Beethoven there is a greater difference in intelligibility than between the early and the late compositions of any other master. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present

Even the deafness that comes on in maturer years injures essentially the agreeable tone, often also the intelligibility, of the utterance. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.

In this process, apart from the change of spelling, the smallest possible alteration has been made consistent with the bringing of the text to a fair modern level of intelligibility. "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays

In Him things receive at once their existence and their intelligibility. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

The one is simply a top-heavy mass of disorderly facts and worshipping enthusiasm; the other is an analysis that searches out every nook and corner of the subject, and brings it into coherence and intelligibility. A Book of Prefaces

Neither of us spoke German with any degree of ease or much intelligibility, and consequently gave vent to our opinions in plain English. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.

For this reason the first two chapters and the last two chapters are essential for intelligibility though they hardly add to the formal completeness of the exposition. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919

But the idea of the war as a medicinal or an educative process has neither logic nor intelligibility, and does not even attain that consistency with modern ethical sentiments which it seeks. The War and the Churches

By thus reducing the Hypothetical Syllogism to the Categorical form, what is lost in elegance is gained in intelligibility. Logic Deductive and Inductive

Adopting this scale, we have 420 sounds and 4200 words, or ten words to each sound,—still a sufficient hindrance to anything like certain intelligibility of speech. China and the Chinese

Yet being can be understood while its intelligibility is not understood. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

In the presentation of a novel outlook with wide ramifications a single line of communications from premises to conclusions is not sufficient for intelligibility. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919

In giving rise to these various considerations, even the objectionable expression may have a genuine efficacy; but that does not justify the form itself, which by no interpretation can be construed into sense or intelligibility. Practical Essays

These ends—legibility, intelligibility, and beauty—are the aims of all the rules which have been devised for the division of words. Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation

The passage has been modernised as little as is consistent with its intelligibility at the present day:— An. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain

Therefore things which are in themselves in the highest degree of intelligibility, are likewise to us most intelligible. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

But this he thinks is compensated for by greater intelligibility and the resulting dramatic effect. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway

"These verses for children have never been surpassed for the happy union of fancy and precept, the simplicity and intelligibility of the ideas and words, and the fluency and conciseness of the rhymes." The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science

How can we so divide words that the legibility and intelligibility of the text will be maintained, the line justified to register, and the beauty of the page enhanced? Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation

It is a mistake to suppose, that the argument in favour of the unities depends upon preserving the deception of the scene; they are necessarily connected with the intelligibility of the piece. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05

But the separated soul understands immaterial substances, which are in the highest degree of intelligibility. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

Hence if we hold it at all today, it is either for sentiment or for the sake of mere tradition, namely, for reasons other than its intellectual usefulness or its inherent intelligibility. Preaching and Paganism

To the third group those dreams belong which are void of both meaning and intelligibility; they are incoherent, complicated, and meaningless. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners

People often speak of Indo-European speech as though they really confused linguistic affinity with mutual intelligibility. The Unity of Civilization

We owe to Democritus this ideal of practical intelligibility; and he is accordingly an eternal spokesman of reason. The Life of Reason

Therefore much more can it understand all natural things which are in a lower degree of intelligibility. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

But these comparative deficiencies are overbalanced, for all the highest purposes of art, by the width and depth, the intelligibility and power, the flexibility and multitudinous associations, of language. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

These have the same time, meaning, and intelligibility as we found in the dreams which recorded a desire. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Race in Europe has led not to unity but to discord, and linguistic affinity does not ensure mutual intelligibility. The Unity of Civilization

At the opposite pole from immediacy lies intelligibility. The Life of Reason

The structural possibilities of the myth depend upon its intelligibility. Aspects of Literature

Nay oftentimes is this sort of jealousie arisen between the Aunt and Cousin; whereby may most certainly be observed the intelligibility of the most prudent female sex. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple

Nature, and human nature took on an intelligibility which they never had had under the older philosophy. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic

Reconciliation, the victory of God, the mutual intelligibility of God and man—all three terms centre in one great thought, a new union between God and man. The Jesus of History

But apparently answers were given, after which a terrific cry announced, with sufficient intelligibility, the departure of the Turtle. Pioneers in Canada

To the average Western mind it is the nearest approach to a Torricellian vacuum of intelligibility that language can pump out of itself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The intelligibility of these vaguer symbolisms can hardly be due to anything but their automatic and silent translation into the terms of a fuller flow of speech. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech

One condition, then, of intelligibility is satisfied by a work of art. The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue

In this he showed that he could write with as much ease and intelligibility for the general public as for the higher order of scientific inquirers. The Story of the Herschels

Its transience, then, cannot matter, except in so far as it loses intelligibility through changes of time, place, and custom, and becomes a dead language. Heart of Man

As thinkers now addressed themselves to all cultivated people, intelligibility and agreeableness were made the prime requisites; the style became light and flowing, the method of treatment facile and often superficial. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

Miss Tox assented, without being particular as to the intelligibility of the proposition. Dombey and Son

Of such intelligibility we had a type, as Dennis maintained, in the objects of pure thought, ideas and their relations. The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue

Some things which had seemed monstrous to her were gathering intelligibility and even a natural meaning: but all this was apparently a branch of knowledge in which Mr. Casaubon had not interested himself. Middlemarch

Standing there between these two this thing came over him with a degree of intelligibility scarcely captured by his words. The Centaur

He put the question as if he had no doubt of its intelligibility—to her. The Best British Short Stories of 1922

There is, there can be, nothing which is not in itself a righteous intelligibility—whether an intelligibility for us, matters nothing. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.

Without the higher the lower would want its intelligibility: without the lower the higher could not have existed. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Legibility is the first and intelligibility the only other thing rendered due by the submission of a manuscript to any publisher. Far Above Rubies

The instruction at school was out of date, inasmuch as, in every branch, it lacked intelligibility. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth

But beyond the fact of its intelligibility, music possesses different attractions for different people. Youth and Egolatry

Nodding gaily and jabbering volubly, but with mutual intelligibility, hosts and guests paced along a narrow track, each of the latter personally and firmly conducted by two of his newly found and most attentive friends. Tropic Days

The history certainly gains in intelligibility if we assume the priority of Nehemiah, and the text does not absolutely bind us. Introduction to the Old Testament

If ballets had no thread of narrative attached to them, their constructors would be driven to achieve greater intelligibility, or to give up trying for it—which were the more gratifying alternative. Without Prejudice

A division of this kind based on principles is very useful in any science, both for the sake of thoroughness and intelligibility. The Critique of Practical Reason

Having at length effervesced, Malkin began to exchange question and answer with something of the calm needful for mutual intelligibility. Born in Exile

I have done what I could for the first kind of intelligibility. The Critique of Pure Reason

I didn't follow his arguments with any special collocation of international intelligibility; but he had Mr. Gomez's attention glued and riveted. Rolling Stones

"Well, of the two," he declared, "I should prefer the first rendering for intelligibility." The Devil's Paw

The slight adaptations and transliterations made in these two selections are entirely defensible on the score of intelligibility. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages

Despite the intelligibility of Paul's statement, our enemies fail to grasp it. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

Nay, more, this chance-conception, now become so current, many have endeavoured to explain by examples which seemed to render any inquiries regarding its intelligibility quite needless. The Critique of Pure Reason

Thus number appears as a fundamental category, as an absolute condition of intelligibility; some go so far as to regard atomism as a necessary method. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson

单词	intelligibility
例句	intelligibility Donovan’s muttered curses rose into intelligibility as he sprang to his feet, rusty eyebrows drawn low. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She plays tolling chords and hesitantly phrased melodies on the piano, while the words hover at the edge of intelligibility. The Playlist: Willie Nelson Is Still Standing, and 10 More New Songs 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z But its ability to tell a story is hampered by problems of intelligibility: a voice singing a tune, rather than on a single tone, is not ideal for conveying words. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z With shadowy imagery that pushes the boundaries of visibility and a mumbly lead performance from Ben Foster that strains the limits of intelligibility, “Galveston” goes past film noir and lands at film murk. Review: In ‘Galveston,’ on the Run With Nowhere to Go 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Proponents of performing opera in English translation — in English-speaking countries, of course — say that intelligibility is their goal. Review: For Once, Singing of Complete and Utter Clarity 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z I’ve had the intelligibility experience too many times now to merely mention it as an aside, at the bottom of a review. Matilda, can you hear me? 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z “They wanted to increase the intelligibility of the hall,” explained Ellery Brown, the Kennedy Center’s senior vice president of operations. ‘Matilda’ complaints reflect Kennedy Center’s acoustic issues 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z There are nuggets of intelligibility in most songs. Bon Iver Steps Back From the Brink on ‘i,i’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In pop, just as in opera, intelligibility can be a problem. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z Yet we carry on, not just because intelligibility is our subject, but because the relationship between music and words is so compelling. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z In that era, the idea of opera as drama was taken seriously, and intelligibility was essential. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z There’s a threshold at which the intelligibility of the amplified human voice becomes inversely proportional to its volume, McNinch explains. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: Hear! Hear! 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Those remarks sparked us to buy the new sound system — which was very important, because you need intelligibility for visitors to be really engaged with artists and curators in the gallery spaces. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago: Hear! Hear! 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Almost to a man and woman, the company is so comfortably at home in the language that these are among the most consistently clear Shakespeare stagings I’ve seen, at least in terms of simple intelligibility. \| 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z Then again, anyone seeking clarity on anything shouldn’t look to Mr. Bay; cinematic intelligibility has never been in his wheelhouse. Review: In Michael Bay’s ‘13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,’ Clarity Isn’t the Objective 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But they were certainly using the word to express the intimate relationship between the human mind and the glorious intelligibility of the universe. The beauty of the Higgs boson 2012-08-04T23:05:33Z To great effect, this lack of narrative intelligibility challenges the implicit bargain between the film and viewer regarding the nature of the truth. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s a little unclear what the pointy-hatted creatures are up to, but this new production from the Little Lord company doesn’t traffic in narrative intelligibility. Review: Rip Van Winkle Meets Creepy Gnomes in ‘Now Is the Time. Now Is the Best Time. Now Is the Best Time of Your Life.’ 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Enough words were lost to reverberation that intelligibility got eliminated. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z “There are a lot of people who mistakenly think intelligibility is the standard. ‘ 5 Common Words That Used to Be Totally Unacceptable 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z If you don't want intelligibility, what do you want instead? Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2012-06-13T07:00:01Z Indeed, Christie's own residual longing for intelligibility ended up mucking up his own otherwise sick burn of Ramaswamy. Vivek Ramaswamy's 15 minutes are here, showing yet again all the GOP base wants is trolling 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z She could identify that it's not just the jackhammer per se, but it's when someone is whispering something just outside a range of intelligibility. Is noise bad for us? The authors of "Golden" on why silence is good for your brain 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z I appreciated its intelligibility and, from where I stood, its edge. Why I Keep Listening to Green Day’s ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Undecided voters are likely to be left even more confused and disheartened, and therefore less likely to vote, after watching the way Trump destroyed any semblance of coherence or literal intelligibility. Believe it or not, Joe Biden lost that debate. To save democracy, we need a champion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The book still needs what Harriet, as a child, called “footmarks”—not to present incidentally interesting facts but, rather, to provide a basic intelligibility. Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin” 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The team conducted tests with the model set inside an acoustic chamber, looking, for example, at speech intelligibility and air resonance. Scientists turn to 'laser accurate' model to test Stonehenge acoustics 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z To test intelligibility, the scientists asked hundreds of people to listen through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform and transcribe samples. Scientists create decoder to turn brain activity into speech 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z To address this problem, Anumanchipalli et al. developed easily replicable measures of speech intelligibility for human listeners, taken from the field of speech engineering. Brain implants that let you speak your mind 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z “Part of my argument with bel canto is that it runs roughshod over intelligibility,” the composer Eve Beglarian told me. Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z If your comments meet minimal standards of civility and intelligibility, I’ll post them in my book’s discussion section. Mind–Body Problems: My Meta-Solution to the Mystery of Who We Really Are 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z You’re working on a project about intelligibility issues in live theatre, TV, and film. A sound expert explains the past and future of the human voice 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Even coverage of just 10 to 20 percent can help bring the reverb trail time down to one second, meaning there is an increase in audio clarity and intelligibility. The secrets behind the audio for the Super Bowl halftime show 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Unlike the reconstruction error or previously used automated intelligibility measures6, this approach directly measures the intelligibility of speech to human listeners without the need for comparison with the original spoken words. Brain implants that let you speak your mind 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Stressing the need to use formal language in legally binding texts, he demanded government ministries avoid inclusive writing, “notably for reasons of intelligibility and clarity”. No more middots: French PM clamps down on gender-neutral language 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z To increase the intelligibility of the signals, we at METI—a research organization dedicated to Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence—crafted a mathematical and scientific tutorial within the transmissions. New Keys to Help Extraterrestrials Unlock Our Messages 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Ferguson emphasized that the study is the “first stab” at quantifying the intelligibility of British English to American listeners. Do British accents become unintelligible to Americans as they get older? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s a consequence of frontman Zachary Cole Smith’s devotion to a specific, smothering sound: heavy-lidded bass lines, chiming guitar leads layered on top of each other like blankets, vocals dancing on the edge of intelligibility. DIIV's Is the Is Are is drowsy, disconcerting dream-pop 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z The intelligibility of the reconstructed speech was still much lower than that of natural speech. Brain implants that let you speak your mind 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z “Right now, with those loud people right behind me, we’re hearing only their reverb energy—it’s not enough for intelligibility. Early reflections have been cut out: you can hear voices but not what they’re saying.” The Photoshop of Sound 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z With companies like Narrative Science already developing applications that turn numerical data into verbal narratives, the importance of designing BI strategies with intelligibility in mind can’t be overstated. CenturyLinkVoice: 5 Keys To Good Business Intelligence 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Additionally, any person who does change radically from their language group will effectively be placing themselves outside it – if their changes are large enough to hinder their intelligibility to others. An Evolution Outreach: How Species Evolve Like Languages 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Speaking of the Russians, one video on her site, “The Solution to Putin’s Aggression: American Energy Development”, offers something that her Fox News appearances avoid with almost pathological determination: intelligibility. The Sarah Palin Channel is full of bugs, but maybe that's the whole point 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The test for whether a particular dialect constitutes a separate language or not is usually mutual intelligibility. Are these the most endangered accents of English? 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The speech pathologist would assess his understanding, his intelligibility, his general language development. Science Gave My Son the Gift of Sound 2014-04-25T15:25:03Z It is the ideal of scientificintelligibility, which he disguises, by means of an inoffensive general formulation, as the whole of intelligibility itself. The Scientism Sermons 2013-09-22T13:29:00Z The new equipment must also meet tougher intelligibility standards for communication. Improving Respirator Masks to Put Fresh Air in Reach 2013-09-09T18:21:17Z He cited studies showing that four or five channels improve speech intelligibility. Well: The Hunt for an Affordable Hearing Aid 2012-10-25T22:19:28Z A second needle would play the sound back as the patterned cylinder turned, via a hand crank, with a handy amplifying horn to enhance the intelligibility of the playback. Can You Hear Me Now? Sound Technology of the 19th Century 2012-07-23T18:45:00.417Z Adult students of language should be guided by the “intelligibility principle,” not the old “nativeness principle.” The Science of Language: Accents Not the Key to Speaking Like a Native 2012-04-04T17:35:37Z Plato believed in the intelligibility of the world, and so did Dante, and so did Maimonides and Aquinas and Al-Farabi, and so did Poussin and Bach and Goethe and Austen and Tolstoy and Proust. The Scientism Sermons 2013-09-22T13:29:00Z As an engraver his work is more conspicuous for its vigour, spirit and intelligibility than for finish and beauty of line. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The principal requisites of Letters of Business are, intelligibility, legibility, and brevity. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Increase the diameter of those pipes, however, and there would be a corresponding decrease in intelligibility. Can You Hear Me Now? Sound Technology of the 19th Century 2012-07-23T18:45:00.417Z Consequent love of order, light, intelligibility, and symmetry, leading to dislike of the wildness, darkness, and mystery of nature. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z For those, on the other hand, who believe in the influence of discarnate spirits, this scheme affords a path of transition, and as it were a provisional intelligibility. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z The Old Norse story is so important for its bearing on the intelligibility of the "Nibelungenlied" that it is absolutely necessary to take it actively into consideration in any discussion of the German poem. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z A quiet, self-possessed manner, and intelligibility should be regarded as essential at such times. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z His conclusions: the transmitted signal fell within the 200 hertz to 5000 hertz frequency range, which just so happens to also be an excellent range of frequencies for speech intelligibility. Can You Hear Me Now? Sound Technology of the 19th Century 2012-07-23T18:45:00.417Z The frankly confessed mystery of the latter, its open appeal to miracle, places it at a fatal disadvantage with the Elder Orientalism, when the appeal is to reason and intelligibility. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z They retain, however, the condition of intelligibility; the joke would lose all its effect if the allusion could not be traced back to the actual without any effort whatsoever. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Kant's idea that experience was an intelligible system was retained, but its intelligibility was not supposed to be wholly comprised in man's methods of knowing it. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z They should be regarded as instruments by which new lines of inquiry are indicated; or by the aid of which a provisional coherency and intelligibility may be given to seemingly disconnected groups of phenomena. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z Hence it is evident that the grammatical correctness or incorrectness of an expression depends upon its intelligibility, that is to say, upon the ordinary use and custom of a particular language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Whether this be an invention or not, it well characterizes his easy intelligibility. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z There is some reason to believe that the syllogistic form, as a test of valid arguments, may be entirely dispensed with, if we can secure accuracy of data, and intelligibility in terms. A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning 2011-07-22T02:00:18.543Z But as Kant's unity of apperception became for Green merely a symbol of the world's inherent intelligibility, the latter did not regard it as an actual process of synthesis. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z The notion is, he declares, erroneous because it contains only half the truth, and a half of the truth which is of no value or interest or intelligibility except when joined to the other half. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Deronda himself is a prig of the first water; while Gwendolen is self-contradictory all through—like a tangled skein of which you cannot find the end, and therefore cannot bring it into order and intelligibility. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Its intelligibility depends chiefly on the difficulty of forging anything like it;—its credit much on national character, but ultimately always on the existence of substantial means of meeting its demand. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z It also gives new conceptions of the "intelligibility of nature," which is but a modern scientific term for religion or the reliance on the will and wisdom of Creative Deity. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z From him things derive at once their intelligibility and their being. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z An advisory discussion outside, too low-voiced for intelligibility, ended in a fourth demand for admittance, knuckled to carry to the rear of the house and waken any sleeper within. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z On the Divine Mind they depend essentially for their reality and intelligibility. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z His chief aim in writing was plainness and intelligibility, but his want of order and logical precision thwarted his purpose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Yet these great thinkers, seeing the intelligibility of nature, its uniformity of laws and operations, without a knowledge of electricity were forced to this conclusion. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z The only place he mentions the prose writer is in the seventeenth section, where he says that the prose writer usually aims only after intelligibility and clarity, while the poet seeks also to be vivid. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z If intelligibility appears in things, it does so like beauty or use, because the mind of man, in so far as it is adapted to them, finds its just exercise in their society. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z Their intelligibility is something apart from any relation to any actual time or place. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Electoral Commission minute, 22 September, 2009 - "Scottish government officials confirmed... that there was currently no provision to consult any organisation as to the intelligibility of the referendum question." SNP reject 'rigging' vote claims 2010-02-22T13:48:00Z And in this particular instance, there is a want of coherency and intelligibility in Saxo's account, which in itself affords a strong presumption that it is imperfect. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn But we are speaking of the foundation of a belief—not the intelligibility of a language. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 The question which it raises and which has afflicted us even to the present day is not primarily the question of fact, but the question of intelligibility, as the controversy over mindstuff abundantly attests. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude I know of no book in this direction that can claim to be a permanent success which combines a tolerable intelligibility with a simple good faith in the reader. Underground Man The range of literary excellence, of spiritual connotation and of intelligibility of subject matter in the so-called Gnostic hymns is so wide that it is difficult to evaluate them. Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries It was useless for Christ to declare what could not be apprehended by human faculty, and His own human faculty was the measure and test of intelligibility. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I Interference was scrambling the telecast waves beyond hope of intelligibility. Beyond The Thunder Now, distinctness—intelligibility, at all points, is a primary feature in my general design. Eureka: A Prose Poem A zoological theory seems suddenly to have thrown light and intelligibility into the most diverse provinces of knowledge. Naturalism And Religion If you watch any object as it fades in distance, it will lose gradually its force, its intelligibility, its anatomy, its whole comprehensible being; but it will never lose its gradation of light. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Some of his alterations were in the direction of greater intelligibility. Noah Webster American Men of Letters Here as everywhere in printing the great purpose is to secure plainness and intelligibility. Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 It is not to be supposed that anyone was to be found who denied the general intelligibility of Nature. God and the World A Survey of Thought The latter, however, are not weakened, that is, “attenuated,” as much and consequently do not need to be amplified as much to give good intelligibility at the distant receiver. Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son Kielland, on the contrary, as inherently, has throughout unmistakably an air of savoir vivre, in the long run much surer in its appeal to us outside of Norway because of its more general intelligibility. Skipper Worse One is apt always to generalize too quickly in such matters; but there can be no question that luster is destructive of loveliness in color, as it is of intelligibility in form. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners All that is required is brevity and intelligibility. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 Doubtless, the simplicity and intelligibility of its creed—one God, one prophet, one book—commends Mohammedanism to the minds of many. India, Its Life and Thought One is apt always to generalise too quickly in such matters; but there can be no question that lustre is destructive of loveliness in colour, as it is of intelligibility in form. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing What is it, they ask, but barefaced crazy unreason, the negation of intelligibility and law? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The old fashioned dress in which these acute strictures on human life appear, while it takes little or nothing from their intelligibility, adds much to their force and liveliness. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters The free act is incommensurable with the idea, and its "rationality" must be defined by this very incommensurability, which admits the discovery of as much intelligibility within it as we will. Creative Evolution A book should have either intelligibility or correctness; to combine the two is impossible, but to lack both is to be unworthy of such a place as Euclid has occupied in education. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays He proceeds by applying to one sphere language and principles from another, and to which they can have no possible application, and where they have no intelligibility. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative So of the unintelligibilities: call them means of intelligibility, and what further do you require? The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy My object has been to combine intelligibility with precision; technical terms lack the former quality, popular terms the latter. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics The primary facts upon which rests intelligibility in reading are emphasis and inflection. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The incidents of the life, the successions of the biographical detail, are but slightly traced, no farther, in fact, than is requisite to the intelligibility of the praises. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 “So far as that is concerned,” said he, “I should think that I—” and his voice quite lost intelligibility. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic No attempts had yet been made to bring even the best of these various writings to order and intelligibility. The Shadow World To attain scholarly accuracy combined with practical intelligibility was, then, the task of the translator. Early Theories of Translation Those who have denied the intelligibility of the universe have not been able to dispense with the very organ by which their argument is conducted. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics But I do not choose to temper down every expression of personal opinion into courteous generalities, and so lose space, and time, and intelligibility at once. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature It is the twofold characteristic, of universal intelligibility and indiscriminate adoption of materials, that gives the novel its place as the great reformer and leveller of our time. An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times That element was the people's song, with its symmetrical cadences and its universal intelligibility. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present When we are happy we cannot say so with any degree of intelligibility: in such a context the spoken word is miserably inadequate, and must be supplemented by some bodily antic. Here are Ladies There is on the front next the town, however, some attempt at simplicity and intelligibility of plan; for there is a vast open court lined by buildings, which have been commenced in the Grecian style. Recollections of Europe Many of them will require much study and preparation before they can be read with that precision of expression which is necessary to perfect intelligibility. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Amid all the varying and contradictory phenomena of the universe there is something which gives coherence and intelligibility to them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" It is true that between the early and the latest compositions of Beethoven there is a greater difference in intelligibility than between the early and the late compositions of any other master. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Even the deafness that comes on in maturer years injures essentially the agreeable tone, often also the intelligibility, of the utterance. The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. In this process, apart from the change of spelling, the smallest possible alteration has been made consistent with the bringing of the text to a fair modern level of intelligibility. "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays In Him things receive at once their existence and their intelligibility. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The one is simply a top-heavy mass of disorderly facts and worshipping enthusiasm; the other is an analysis that searches out every nook and corner of the subject, and brings it into coherence and intelligibility. A Book of Prefaces Neither of us spoke German with any degree of ease or much intelligibility, and consequently gave vent to our opinions in plain English. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. For this reason the first two chapters and the last two chapters are essential for intelligibility though they hardly add to the formal completeness of the exposition. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 But the idea of the war as a medicinal or an educative process has neither logic nor intelligibility, and does not even attain that consistency with modern ethical sentiments which it seeks. The War and the Churches By thus reducing the Hypothetical Syllogism to the Categorical form, what is lost in elegance is gained in intelligibility. Logic Deductive and Inductive Adopting this scale, we have 420 sounds and 4200 words, or ten words to each sound,—still a sufficient hindrance to anything like certain intelligibility of speech. China and the Chinese Yet being can be understood while its intelligibility is not understood. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition In the presentation of a novel outlook with wide ramifications a single line of communications from premises to conclusions is not sufficient for intelligibility. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 In giving rise to these various considerations, even the objectionable expression may have a genuine efficacy; but that does not justify the form itself, which by no interpretation can be construed into sense or intelligibility. Practical Essays These ends—legibility, intelligibility, and beauty—are the aims of all the rules which have been devised for the division of words. Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation The passage has been modernised as little as is consistent with its intelligibility at the present day:— An. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Therefore things which are in themselves in the highest degree of intelligibility, are likewise to us most intelligible. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition But this he thinks is compensated for by greater intelligibility and the resulting dramatic effect. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway "These verses for children have never been surpassed for the happy union of fancy and precept, the simplicity and intelligibility of the ideas and words, and the fluency and conciseness of the rhymes." The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science How can we so divide words that the legibility and intelligibility of the text will be maintained, the line justified to register, and the beauty of the page enhanced? Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation It is a mistake to suppose, that the argument in favour of the unities depends upon preserving the deception of the scene; they are necessarily connected with the intelligibility of the piece. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 But the separated soul understands immaterial substances, which are in the highest degree of intelligibility. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Hence if we hold it at all today, it is either for sentiment or for the sake of mere tradition, namely, for reasons other than its intellectual usefulness or its inherent intelligibility. Preaching and Paganism To the third group those dreams belong which are void of both meaning and intelligibility; they are incoherent, complicated, and meaningless. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners People often speak of Indo-European speech as though they really confused linguistic affinity with mutual intelligibility. The Unity of Civilization We owe to Democritus this ideal of practical intelligibility; and he is accordingly an eternal spokesman of reason. The Life of Reason Therefore much more can it understand all natural things which are in a lower degree of intelligibility. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition But these comparative deficiencies are overbalanced, for all the highest purposes of art, by the width and depth, the intelligibility and power, the flexibility and multitudinous associations, of language. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series These have the same time, meaning, and intelligibility as we found in the dreams which recorded a desire. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Race in Europe has led not to unity but to discord, and linguistic affinity does not ensure mutual intelligibility. The Unity of Civilization At the opposite pole from immediacy lies intelligibility. The Life of Reason The structural possibilities of the myth depend upon its intelligibility. Aspects of Literature Nay oftentimes is this sort of jealousie arisen between the Aunt and Cousin; whereby may most certainly be observed the intelligibility of the most prudent female sex. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple Nature, and human nature took on an intelligibility which they never had had under the older philosophy. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Reconciliation, the victory of God, the mutual intelligibility of God and man—all three terms centre in one great thought, a new union between God and man. The Jesus of History But apparently answers were given, after which a terrific cry announced, with sufficient intelligibility, the departure of the Turtle. Pioneers in Canada To the average Western mind it is the nearest approach to a Torricellian vacuum of intelligibility that language can pump out of itself. Ralph Waldo Emerson The intelligibility of these vaguer symbolisms can hardly be due to anything but their automatic and silent translation into the terms of a fuller flow of speech. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech One condition, then, of intelligibility is satisfied by a work of art. The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue In this he showed that he could write with as much ease and intelligibility for the general public as for the higher order of scientific inquirers. The Story of the Herschels Its transience, then, cannot matter, except in so far as it loses intelligibility through changes of time, place, and custom, and becomes a dead language. Heart of Man As thinkers now addressed themselves to all cultivated people, intelligibility and agreeableness were made the prime requisites; the style became light and flowing, the method of treatment facile and often superficial. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time Miss Tox assented, without being particular as to the intelligibility of the proposition. Dombey and Son Of such intelligibility we had a type, as Dennis maintained, in the objects of pure thought, ideas and their relations. The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue Some things which had seemed monstrous to her were gathering intelligibility and even a natural meaning: but all this was apparently a branch of knowledge in which Mr. Casaubon had not interested himself. Middlemarch Standing there between these two this thing came over him with a degree of intelligibility scarcely captured by his words. The Centaur He put the question as if he had no doubt of its intelligibility—to her. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 There is, there can be, nothing which is not in itself a righteous intelligibility—whether an intelligibility for us, matters nothing. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. Without the higher the lower would want its intelligibility: without the lower the higher could not have existed. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Legibility is the first and intelligibility the only other thing rendered due by the submission of a manuscript to any publisher. Far Above Rubies The instruction at school was out of date, inasmuch as, in every branch, it lacked intelligibility. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth But beyond the fact of its intelligibility, music possesses different attractions for different people. Youth and Egolatry Nodding gaily and jabbering volubly, but with mutual intelligibility, hosts and guests paced along a narrow track, each of the latter personally and firmly conducted by two of his newly found and most attentive friends. Tropic Days The history certainly gains in intelligibility if we assume the priority of Nehemiah, and the text does not absolutely bind us. Introduction to the Old Testament If ballets had no thread of narrative attached to them, their constructors would be driven to achieve greater intelligibility, or to give up trying for it—which were the more gratifying alternative. Without Prejudice A division of this kind based on principles is very useful in any science, both for the sake of thoroughness and intelligibility. The Critique of Practical Reason Having at length effervesced, Malkin began to exchange question and answer with something of the calm needful for mutual intelligibility. Born in Exile I have done what I could for the first kind of intelligibility. The Critique of Pure Reason I didn't follow his arguments with any special collocation of international intelligibility; but he had Mr. Gomez's attention glued and riveted. Rolling Stones "Well, of the two," he declared, "I should prefer the first rendering for intelligibility." The Devil's Paw The slight adaptations and transliterations made in these two selections are entirely defensible on the score of intelligibility. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Despite the intelligibility of Paul's statement, our enemies fail to grasp it. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians Nay, more, this chance-conception, now become so current, many have endeavoured to explain by examples which seemed to render any inquiries regarding its intelligibility quite needless. The Critique of Pure Reason Thus number appears as a fundamental category, as an absolute condition of intelligibility; some go so far as to regard atomism as a necessary method. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson
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