| 单词 | miserliness |
| 例句 | Now I’m embarrassed, and beyond that overwhelmed to discover a covert stream of generosity running counter to the dominant corporate miserliness. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The others made fun of what they believed was his miserliness, but he could not eat it or throw it away, until finally, in the outhouse, he let it fall into the earth’s stinking hole. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It is thus the most faithful to a story that is not merely about the miserliness of one man, but, potentially, of all mankind. Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z His exasperating qualities are recalled, chief among them his legendary miserliness. | 'Corman?s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel': ?Corman?s World? by Alex Stapleton - Review 2011-12-15T23:50:03Z I realized that I had misremembered Scrooge as gleeful in his miserliness, a human version of Scrooge McDuck, whose exuberance is eternally preserved in the cultural imagination by the image of the “money dive.” The Ghosts of Christmas: Was Scrooge the First Psychotherapy Patient? 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z “It’s a kind of meanness and miserliness on the part of these prosperous countries that say, we don’t want these people,” he said. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z In all the versions of the story, there is resistance, skepticism, fear, miserliness, scarcity or a suspicion that must first be conquered. What Stone Soup Means to a Seasoned Chef 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z But there’s a difference between prudence and miserliness. Shutdowns increase need for federal relief 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Some economists say that focussing on Amazon’s miserliness or on the conditions inside its warehouses obscures larger, more positive truths. Is Amazon Unstoppable? 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But evidence of the president’s miserliness also abounds. Brandishing a wad of cash, Trump pitches himself as a generous tipper 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Too often, our state sacrifices enormous potential long-term returns at the altar of miserliness masquerading as “fiscal responsibility.” Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Finally, in desperation, they went to their neighbor, Buzz Newton, who was known for his miserliness, and asked him to co-sign a loan. Our loneliness epidemic 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z There is no self in the dharma: I will practice without miserliness I will practice with generosity I will practice without hesitation and regret. How Much Is Anyone ‘Entitled’ To, in the End? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z It seizes on and tucks away for safe-keeping the most negligible trifles, clinging to them through the years with the passionate miserliness of Molière’s Harpagon. John Banville’s Dublin, a city lost – and found 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Even when they have not been at their best thus far, they have dug out a result and their defensive miserliness bodes well. The Premier League returns: how are the title contenders shaping up? 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z In practice, of course, failure to provide an honorarium at a level deemed appropriate is likely to result in a mini peasants’ revolt with your despicable miserliness bruited to a roomful of diners. Is it finally time for Americans to do away with tipping? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z However, in Charles Dickens Christmas Carol wages are based on the charity or miserliness of the employer. Is Paul Krugman Anti-Science? 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Here is another test of cognitive miserliness, as described by Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleague Shane Frederick: Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z A man doing the same thing is exacerbating rejection with miserliness. Why do we cling to prehistoric dating rituals in a technological age? 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z In previous generations, Badree's career, which comprises 14 first-class wickets over 10 years, would have passed without notice but 20-over cricket has provided a platform for his miserliness. The Guardian world cricket forum: England's crown could be spun off 2012-08-23T17:18:39Z He chose to retire from business, visited Watley, and habits of miserliness growing rapidly upon his cankered mind, never afterward removed from the lodgings he had hired on first arriving there. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z A more plausible cause of miserliness is leaders with a weak sense of social responsibility. Somalia's Pain: Will We Let 750,000 People Starve? 2011-10-01T15:35:35Z It’s certainly not Rupert Murdoch’s local reputation for philanthropic miserliness or personal and political thuggery that caused Australians to lose interest. Aussies Get Best of Murdoch by Ignoring His Fall: Iain McCalman 2011-07-29T00:22:06Z Not so old in years, perhaps; but old in wickedness, and aged beyond his years by his own miserliness. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z Thus, miserliness and extravagance are specifically distinct sins, because one falls short of, while the other goes beyond, the golden mean that is found in liberality. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z These are vague terms that the bankers will surely use to explain their current miserliness with credit – after all, creditworthiness and commercial concerns are in the eye of the beholder. Banks: Getting away with it 2011-02-09T00:05:03Z This was not due to miserliness, but to her simple tastes and her frugal early life. The Diamond Pin 2011-01-22T03:00:15.907Z Given that he bowled his first three overs in the power play and his last at the very death, it was a spell of Silas Marner-like miserliness. Morgan steers England to win 2010-05-10T21:15:00Z Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce waxed lyrical about the miserliness of his side's defence in his programme notes. Blackburn 2-3 Everton 2010-04-17T16:14:00Z This amply fed him and kept him, and he put by, with a miserliness that was out of all keeping with his temperament, every cent he could spare from the necessities of life. Fairfax and His Pride We doubt whether, except Rousseau, any autobiographer ever had the courage to accuse himself of so ungraceful a fault as infant miserliness. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Mean in all the relationships of life, ill-tempered, grumbling, sulky, with a great tendency to miserliness, he had the utmost appreciation for everything in the shape of fun and amusement. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II His companions accuse him of miserliness and usury. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal Sometimes I have really thought her miserliness intolerable: in a gentian, for instance, the way she economises her ultramarine down in the bell is a little too bad. 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 Their tartness and strictness and miserliness had made the life of the girls in the school uncomfortable for some time. Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck He wishes to emphasize the cold miserliness of this man. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature But then, old Jacob Patterson was noted as much for his surliness as for his miserliness. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 We must show him that we despise his miserliness and meanness. Practical Ethics Why, d’ee think that selfishness, or greed, or miserliness, or indifference, or godlessness would ever take the trouble to send all them things to us? The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea Blame me fur miserliness, an' excuse her fur slackness! Janet of the Dunes The brown group of astral colors represents desire for gain and accumulation, ranging from the clear brown of industrious accumulation, to the murky dull browns of miserliness, greed and avarice. The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms This tendency may take extreme forms, as in the case of miserliness or kleptomania. Human Traits and their Social Significance But miserliness or avariciousness is a different thing from economy. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness. Pushing to the Front Saving in a good cause, and with a clear conscience and determined purpose, is one of the elements of the higher life and is far removed from miserliness. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History This miserliness had grown upon him since he had lost both wife and son. A Crooked Path A Novel Now some sins are contraries, as wastefulness and miserliness. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition DAMER'S GOLD: A fortunate rescue from the torments of miserliness and pestilent heirs; the author's notes on the origin of the play are interesting. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays It was a precedent that established miserliness as an actual sin, a dissipation just as deadly as that of the spendthrift. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him The pale-haired woman who kept him with her miserliness of self, who intruded no sombre tragedy of loving, was well worth a trip across the foot-hills to see. Judith of the Plains Therefore, let Desire, cupidity, thirst, miserliness avoid me. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Hence whoever is subject to the sin of wastefulness is not simultaneously subject to the sin of miserliness, yet it may happen that he has been subject to it hitherto. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Its miserliness is deep-set: artesian wells sunk a thousand feet through its dull grey sands bring up only a brackish yellow water; a precarious rye and barley grow grudgingly. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees But Sarah, because of her father's miserliness, often went out for extra work when the neighbors needed help, and this was the real cause of Mrs. Robinson's feeling. Different Girls Her husband's miserliness, and the grind of the planning, scheming, and contriving necessary to clothe and feed her two children would have crushed the spirit of many women. Half Portions They should free themselves from lust, wrath, pride, cupidity, delusion, miserliness, deceit, slander, vanity, and injury to living creatures. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Hence by sinning with the vice of wastefulness he is freed from the sin of miserliness. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition With the instinctive miserliness of the man who realizes that passion to last must be hoarded, not scattered, he had drawn back almost unconsciously from the simple abandonment of her love. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Many of his worst qualities also originate in the bad use of money,—such as greed, miserliness, injustice, extravagance, and improvidence. Thrift The fact was that the estate had been for years a mere field for the display of its owner's worst qualities—caprice, miserliness, jealous or vindictive love of power. The Mating of Lydia That institution has for twenty-six years been crying shame on miserliness and cupidity. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs People called it miserliness--but it wasn't; it was only a moral hatred of waste--in anything. Lady Connie What she had called miserliness was really prudence and thrift and other pleasant-sounding virtues. Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents Not to celebrate one's birthday can only be a sign of poverty, miserliness or misanthropy, and to overlook the birthday anniversary of a close relative is to risk an immediate breach of connections. The Soul of a Child Men would only work for him on daily wages and because of his miserliness they demanded higher wages than usual from him and would not work without. Folklore of the Santal Parganas And Betty knew that she was expected to believe that Rosy had hoarded the money sent to restore the place, and from sheer weak miserliness had allowed her son's heritage to fall to ruin. The Shuttle I won't say any more, except that all the miserliness in the world was in this man. The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself He is vulnerable to reason there—always a few grains of common-sense in an ounce of miserliness. Middlemarch Faustino had lived in a state of miserliness almost in America, but then he had had his debauches of shows and wine and carousals. Twilight in Italy It might be impossible to make impression on the miserliness of a miser, but upon the honesty in a miser it might be possible! The Elect Lady Shocking indeed were the miserliness and materialism of such existences but for the element of self-denial, this looking ahead for those to follow after. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne So you may be; but I said also that the miserliness or trouble must not be in your hearts all day. The Two Paths Theft becomes necessary only because of miserliness, so its sin must be divided between the miser and the thief. The Home and the World "You may bring twenty Pigotts, for all I care—so long as you will pay for their board," he added, with a touch of his old miserliness. Dawn This customary jest about the servant's miserliness made him laugh. Doctor Pascal Yet the Roxbury Russets and Baldwins of that orchard had once been Billy Jacobs's great pride, the one point of hospitality which his miserliness never conquered. Mercy Philbrick's Choice In this most famous of Christmas stories Dickens gives us the very atmosphere of the season with all the contrasts that poverty and wealth, miserliness and charity, the past and the future can suggest. Short Stories Old and New I ought to have seen through your father's affectation of miserliness and indifference. At Love's Cost And nothing makes the atmosphere so cold about a man or woman as the egoism which shows itself in miserliness, or in the unwillingness that others should have a good time. December Love Blind desires may easily defeat their own ends; wealth does not necessarily accumulate in proportion to a man's miserliness; the ardent but unenlightened philanthropist may do his fellow-man more harm than good. A Handbook of Ethical Theory There were in the Professor's nature no sympathies that enabled him even to comprehend miserliness in any degree. Once Aboard the Lugger As has been intimated before in these pages, there is a great difference between saving through and hoarding through a spirit of miserliness. Business Hints for Men and Women So also benevolence in the past results in long life in the present; the taking of life, a short life; the giving of alms, richness, miserliness, Poverty. The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan Were Harpagon to see us laugh at his miserliness, I do not say that he would get rid of it, but he would either show it less or show it differently. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic When Nebuchadnezzar felt his end draw nigh, he resolved to sink his immense treasures in the Euphrates rather than let them ascend to his son Evil-merodach, so great was his miserliness. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 The old mother, noticing that Graslin's miserliness, which returned upon him, might hamper her daughter, was for some time unwilling to resign the property left to her by her husband. The Village Rector Their soil was gold, and in their miserliness and their greed for more and more gold, they wanted to prevent strangers from enjoying aught of their riches. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 The millionaire, in spite of his reputation for miserliness, had even volunteered his disinterested support if at any time it should become necessary to enlarge the plant. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Now single women are either hoarders or wasters; they rarely take the middle way and assume the prudence of the housewife, which generally develops into miserliness. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The doctor's miserliness was not mere talk; it was real, and it had an object. Ursula As to Muffat, he was an idiot: he had no notion as to what it was usual to give, and she could not, therefore, grow angry with him on the score of miserliness. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola Now this tendency to hoard is not essentially miserliness, for the chief purpose of miserliness is to bring together and to own money; to enjoy merely the look of it. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students |
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