| 单词 | nonentity |
| 例句 | Since I had applied for such a nonentity of a job, Quackenbush, who had known as little about me as I had about him, knew now. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He never questioned it before because Dad always said the old man had been a “nonentity” since before Dad was actually born. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “Imagine them not even getting his name right, Weasley. It’s almost as though he’s a complete nonentity, isn’t it?” he crowed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z People who have been digested by a man-eating lioncelle tend to become nonentities—to live no life except within the vitals of the devourer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He also wasn’t supposed to let me, a nonentity on loan from JV, fill in for him. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Fallon was more or less a nonentity for the rest of the evening. Golden Globes: Lots of ‘La La’-dee-da, but a wake-up call from Meryl Streep 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z A continual worry is that those in the balcony cheap seats might fall while trying to get a better view, setting off a "Niagara of nonentities." Dame Edna offers 'Glorious,' cheeky zaniness at Ahmanson 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z I have nothing else to declare – I’m a sexual nonentity. My life in sex: ‘Since both balls were removed, the anguish never stops’ 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Jones never seemed comfortable in the Iron Fist role; his Danny Rand was a whiny nonentity, and he performed the fight choreography with a remarkable lack of conviction. The new 007 is a black woman – don't make her a Bond girl 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Second, they are all, in my experience, more or less the same interchangeable, vaporous nonentity. Teaching ate me alive 2012-09-15T19:00:00Z But in the seventies, the period shown in the film, he is a literary outcast, a virtual nonentity with no official career. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Even the Today programme sniffed around it, which is quite a turn-up for an interview with a relative nonentity on a fashion website most fashion journalists had never previously read. A former editor dished the dirt on Vogue – what did we learn? It’s just like any other magazine 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Helou, 66, is far from a nonentity now — a chef, a cooking teacher and a rather prolific cookbook writer. The Vast World of Islam, in 300 Recipes 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Your team is a dispiriting clutch of nonentities, carefully drained of character until they're mere cyphers, filling the gaps between gunfights with banal reiteration of plot points. Fuse - review 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Suvari’s Catherine is so extravagantly monstrous that Mr. Huston’s David, who provides a desultory narration, comes across as an inert nonentity. | 'Hemingway?s Garden of Eden': In the South of France, a 1927 M?nage ? Trois Takes an Incendiary Turn 2010-12-09T23:38:00Z This didn’t make him popular, but it elevated him slightly above the status of nonentity. My Friend Dahmer: The Unspeakable Horror of Life in the 1970s 2012-03-28T10:45:09Z In the postwar era, Long Island beach houses were, for the most part, architectural nonentities, basic boxes and inconsequential Cape Cods. How a Modernist Architect Shook Up the Hamptons with Funky, Low-Cost Vacation Houses 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Chichikov is not only in government: The squeaking wheels of his carriage are audible wherever corrupt nonentities pawn human lives for petty comforts. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The newly married couple had travelled together for weeks in a Morris Minor through alien territory, but she was a nonentity in his account of the adventure. Donald Hall’s Late Burst of Creativity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The host of the Grammy Awards is almost a nonentity, usually present for only about 15 minutes of a three-and-a-half-hour broadcast. As Grammy Host, James Corden Has Minutes to Make the Show Fun 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z In 1822 he painted his insidiously pessimistic masterpiece, a grand state portrait of George IV that portrays this unpopular king as a mottled, flabby, impotent nonentity. National Portrait Gallery shines light on forgotten artist Thomas Lawrence 2010-08-04T18:38:00Z “A lot of people on the right are looking back and seeing an agenda that is a complete failure, presided over by a bunch of nonentities,” he said. Talking Trumpism: A New Political Journal Enters the Fray 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Her portrait subjects included both celebrities and nonentities, all swathed in the same luxe wrapping. Marie Cosindas, Whose Photographs Brought Color to the Fore, Dies at 93 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z As for that story that “Ink” promises to unfold, it’s about the overhaul nearly five decades ago of a London newspaper called The Sun from a drowsy nonentity into a tabloid sensation. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z “I could take the beatings and the physical punishment,” Mr., Zamperini said, “but it was the attempt to destroy your dignity, to make you a nonentity that was the hardest thing to bear.” Louis Zamperini, Olympian and ‘Unbroken’ War Survivor, Dies at 97 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Wink’s men are a wrong move or two from being cut out of the herd, from falling into nonentity. Review: In ‘Dog Run Moon,’ Men So Lonesome, They Could Cry 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Instead of an enigmatic god, the Diane before us is closer to a nonentity, and the sexual energy among her and the women, vital to moments of attraction and abandon, is nowhere to be found. Review: The God of Wine Stirs No Sexual Whirlwind in ‘Hurricane Diane’ 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z He recently criticized Putin as a “nonentity” and a “cowardly mediocrity.” Russia detains a hard-line nationalist who accused Putin of weakness in Ukraine 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Overseas, the U.S. government treated Mr. Joseph like a nonentity. A Black Man Went to Australia for Gold, Then Stood Up for Democracy 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Putin allies have cast the ICC, which countries including Russia, China and the United States do not recognise, as a "legal nonentity" that had never done anything significant. Russian children's commissioner rejects ICC war crime allegations as false 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Former President Dmitry Medvedev told Russian media that the ICC, which countries including Russia, China and the United States do not recognise, was a "legal nonentity" that had never done anything significant. Any attempt to arrest Putin would be declaration of war on Russia, ally says 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Willy’s humiliating status as a nonentity — as well as his ultimate fate — are both thereby sealed. Review | A volcanic new ‘Death of a Salesman’ erupts on Broadway 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z “A nonentity that has managed to cheat a large part of the population has been at the country’s helm for 23 years.” Russia detains a hard-line nationalist who accused Putin of weakness in Ukraine 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z And now, also in Hollywood fashion, after decades as a nonentity, the L.A. Why we turned the L.A. River into a freeway (for water) 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The velocity at which running backs go from the country’s biggest athletic stars to nonentities can be jarring. Analysis | Christian McCaffrey and the plight of the modern NFL running back 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Virtually all of these supposed terrorists turned out to be nonentities — “ghost leads,” as they were called. ‘I Helped Destroy People’ 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The Republican Party has become a nonentity in statewide races — the last time a Republican was elected statewide was in 2016. State GOP votes not to endorse a candidate in the recall race 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z They are relevant when they looked to be a nonentity. Perspective | The Wizards’ implausible trip from covid purgatory to playoff contention 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Somebody asks Pence a question and he responds like they are nonentities. Cornel West on Trump, the virus and the future: "Imagine a world that is worth fighting for" 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Trump has been leaning into his son-in-law, the pallid nonentity. Opinion | Live and Let Die, Trump-Style 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z At the grocery store, at the airport, at the beach, I saw that I was either a complete nonentity or just a nice, harmless middle-aged lady, an extra on the periphery of the real action. Am I plankton? Why older women feel we're at the bottom of the food chain 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Woodrow Wilson deemed Chester A. Arthur “a nonentity with side whiskers.” Truman and Coolidge go up, Jefferson and Jackson go down. How history remembers presidents 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Wolff’s sensational White House exposé paints Donald Trump as a childlike nonentity. Trump weakened environmental laws after BP lobbying 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Her sentences are a scaffolding that holds up a nonentity: Todd Haynes Rewrites the Hollywood Playbook 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Earlier in her career, though, as a prosecutor and then as state attorney general, she was a nonentity on the issue. Essential California: Nipsey Hussle's quest to buy back South L.A. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z “McCarthy’s like a nonentity, and McConnell — God knows what motivates him,” he said. Who will succeed Donald Trump? Conservatives don’t have a clear answer yet 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z In “Breaking Bad,” Walter White went from ineffectual nonentity to super-competent tough guy and moral monster, and millions of us couldn’t look away. Meet Paul Le Roux, the cyber criminal exposed in new books by Evan Ratliff and Elaine Shannon 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z “He is totally a nonentity,” one senior Democratic aide said. ‘Master negotiator’ or ‘nonentity’? Kushner thrusts himself into middle of shutdown talks. 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Populism, in this framing, is a bogeyman: a nonentity invoked for the purpose of stirring up fear. ‘We the people’: the battle to define populism 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z It was only when he’d finished abusing that nonentity that he turned to me, looked me up and down impudently, and asked Tova if this was her new lover. “All Rivers” 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The editorial board tries to foster sympathy for the profound loss of a miscarriage while also arguing, in essence, that the law should treat unborn children as worthless, disposable nonentities. Opinion | Treating a Fetus as a Person 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z McKay thus poses his central question: How the hell did this two-time Yale dropout make the jump from nonentity to string-pulling power behind the throne?” Dick Cheney is back but rehabilitation is not on Darth Vader's agenda 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z More to the point, Faso is a small-time nonentity whose wife might have trouble recognizing him, and who must fake being a fire-breathing Trumper for some audiences and a cautious suburban moderate for others. Looking for first signs of a blue wave? Here are five early races that should tell the story 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Called a “national nonentity” by a court historian, Waite’s appointment surprised everyone, including Waite. On the Supreme Court, difficult nominations have led to historical injustices 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Hill plays Owen as a muted nonentity, with his usual brassy range drained away, even when he’s playing alternative dream personae. Mind Games on “Maniac” and “Dietland” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z But the North Korean statement said Park was a “nonentity” and called the charges “vicious slander and another smear campaign.” N. Korea says U.S. ‘smear campaign’ over hacking undercuts Trump-Kim accord 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z On an otherwise sleepy late-summer Monday, more than 200 voters showed up at a trio of Kim house parties in a corner of New Jersey where Democrats were a nonentity for years. Vulnerable GOP candidates in the suburbs are torn over whether to run with Trump — or from him 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z To believe most media descriptions of Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr, he is a nonentity, unworthy of the attention President Trump has given him. Opinion | What Bruce Ohr Told Congress 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z And in truth, he was something of a nonentity. The Stanley Cup’s Namesake Produced a Great Trophy. Not Much Else. 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z "He was a nonentity 10 years ago," De said. A jeweler to the stars is accused in a $1.8-billion bank fraud in India 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z That is not to say the channel is peopled entirely by nonentities: lots of present and former UK politicians from the left and the right turn up on RT regularly. 24-hour Putin people: my week watching Kremlin ‘propaganda channel’ RT 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Believing that they were becoming faceless nonentities in America and being bypassed by minorities, immigrants and women, angry, aggrieved and resentful white men rallied around a candidate who spoke directly to them. Opinion | Resistance, for the Win! 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z If she targets him, he said, “I’m going to say, ‘I’m not here against you, you’re a nonentity. A 3-Way Debate Is Expected to Be a 2-on-1 Against de Blasio 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z A person who fills a place, but is of no importance or worth, a nonentity, a “mere nothing.” Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Yet such is the splintering of British politics, and the implosion of the opposition Labour Party under the non-leadership of a far-left nonentity, that May will probably win in a landslide. Opinion | France’s turmoil makes Brexit seem tame 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z At this meeting, they were officially a nonentity. One year after refuge takeover, a quieter land battle unfolds 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Sky transformed Britain from being almost a nonentity in professional road cycling into a world dominator. Team Sky Tried to Rise Above Doping and Landed in an Ethics Quagmire 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The “tragedy” was the fate of the French Revolution under Napoleon; the “farce” was the election of Napoleon’s nephew, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, whom Marx considered a nonentity, to the Presidency of France, in December, 1848. Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Endorsing this particular one, a genial nonentity from New Mexico who suggests a hardware-store manager with “quirky” opinions, is a sign of dementia and despair. Trump drives the media nuts, literally: The Chicago Tribune’s delusional Gary Johnson endorsement is a symptom of a deeper illness 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Good riddance to an obnoxious, entitled, stupendously overrated nonentity. Hope Solo Says She Will Not Play Again in N.W.S.L. This Season 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z One of the most ghastly Romanovs, said Montefiore, was Anna of Russia, “a miserable nonentity until she came to power. She was a really disgusting woman.” Prince Philip's DNA may identify the last of the Romanovs, says Sebag Montefiore 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z A political nonentity for most of his career, he is also revelling in his success. Hillary’s heartbern 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z After so much waiting and frustration and toiling in obscurity, after years spent as a political nonentity with no voice in national affairs, New York finally “matters.” Forget the N.Y. primary, the Keystone state matters more: Pennsylvania could be the most important “forgotten” state to vote 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z They want the president’s nominee to be a nonentity, and they want to keep their criticisms focused exclusively on Barack Obama and the Democrats. The price of obstruction: Republicans gamble that blocking Obama’s SCOTUS nominee won’t hurt them too badly 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Clinton supporters first saw Sanders as a nonentity, then a startlingly popular contender and, finally, a serious threat. Bernie Sanders is No Barack Obama 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z On the biggest stage possible they turned both quarterbacks into complete nonentities. It was billed as Newton v Manning – but the defenses tore up the script 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z On the establishment’s main stage, Trump was treated as either a joke or a nonentity by his fellow candidates. The Dawn of Reality TV Politics 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Its senior leadership consists of elderly nonentities, and the rank-and-file are mostly earnest dissidents of noble intentions and minimal professional experience. How Will Aung San Suu Kyi Govern Myanmar? 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The Japanese electronics maker — one of the world's biggest video game companies but a virtual nonentity in the rapidly growing mobile games industry — unveiled its first title for smartphones Thursday in Tokyo. Nintendo unveils its first game for smartphones in long overdue move 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z “His repatriation to the U.S. was a wise move because he became, in effect, a nonentity here, and he went off and did some very intelligent things.” Once Down, James Murdoch Is Guided Back to the Top 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Muddler: Give up that plastic nonentity in favor of a sleek bamboo model made by a fellow in Silver Lake or a fluted walnut one. Cool tools for your home bar or bar cart 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Accused of being soft by two of the team’s top players in recent years, the Nets are not the nonentity some think, but they are a bit of a mess. N.B.A. Playoff Preview and Predictions: New Contenders Emerge 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z “How can a country like Cameroon pick such football nonentities for international friendlies?” African champion Ivory Coast still in celebration mode 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Yet accidents and nonentities do not stay in power this long. Putin: The Rise of a Villain Straight From Central Casting 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z In Kotkin’s telling, Stalin demonstrates considerable talent as a politician, organizer and infighter, as opposed to earlier portrayals of him as a “mediocrity” or a “gray blur,” a nonentity who made no impression on others. Book review: ‘Stalin: Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z "I walked out from total nonentity to notoriety," he recalled decades later, still relishing the moment. The Alex Salmond story 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The group had argued that treating transgender people as legal nonentities, unable to apply for official identification documents, meant that they were deprived of basic human rights. India Ink: India’s Supreme Court Recognizes 3rd Gender 2014-04-15T09:30:56Z Its editorial brands the work and pensions secretary a "nonentity" who spends his days "making life harder for working people". Watkins and Biggs make headlines 2013-12-19T06:11:14Z His critics refuse to acknowledge his contribution, and some have improbably made him out to be a nonentity. Putin: The Rise of a Villain Straight From Central Casting 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Dorothy was, so far as the girls in their tight cliques were concerned, essentially a nonentity. Touching a Nerve : Exploring the Implications of the Self as Brain, Part 1 [Excerpt] 2013-07-26T14:45:03.867Z Maybe this soy-and-sesame-seed nonentity is supposed to be another in-joke, although it would be funnier if, when you ordered it, your captain said, “We just sold out.” Restaurant Review: Carbone in Manhattan 2013-06-04T20:23:13Z The flutterballs he throws, his inability to find secondary receivers and the limited play selection for him all have made Tebow a virtual nonentity - and now he has broken ribs. Ryan could be staking 2 jobs on Sanchez 2012-12-05T23:37:14Z And Mr. Tally quotes Woodrow Wilson describing still another New York vice president, Chester A. Arthur, as "a nonentity with side-whiskers." City Room: When the Vice Presidency Was a Job for New Yorkers 2012-08-27T17:01:02Z And it is precisely because he is not a nonentity that he has been a calamity. Putin: The Rise of a Villain Straight From Central Casting 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Just three years ago, the far-right Golden Dawn party was a nonentity. The rise of Golden Dawn is a sign of Greek lawlessness 2012-06-14T11:45:19Z He never accomplished anything, and he was a mere nonentity not only in society but also in his own home till the very last. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z And what is this necessary law which is a nonentity? The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Blanche would sink into obscurity, would become a mere nonentity, devoted to her child and house-keeping, like scores of other wives and mothers that he knew and despised in Paris. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z The little vintner, tickled that the great Mistress Woffington should have deigned to notice an unknown nonentity, was duly brought up and presented. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z In an emergency Susan had proved herself a nonentity, a bundle of hysterical thrills. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z But in the eighteen-nineties when "science announced nonentity and art admired decay" Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp sounding over the roofs of the world" seemed a healthy sound. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The eternity of matter was maintained by these philosophers from the belief that no thing could be created out of nothing, and that no thing could ever return to nonentity. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z There was nothing to be gained but possible mishaps by lingering in Paris; and he was the more anxious to be off that he found himself a nonentity there. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z "No one can work on the paper who isn't a party member," the other nonentity said. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Despite this sea change, prisoners continue to be treated as nonentities in much sociological and economic analysis. The Myth of American Desegregation 2012-02-03T12:06:13Z But she was a nonentity in this house: he had heard her husband speak to her. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z I believe the head Turk was Karatheodori Pasha, but presume that he was a nonentity; at all events neither Prince nor Princess Bismarck referred to him. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z His cosmogony was gone; his cosmos itself was dispersed and disjointed; creation, nay, the Creator Himself, seemed to fade away slowly into nonentity before him. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z And yet, though legally a nonentity, socially, if clever, she can attain to a certain position. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z The lady of the house is a nonentity, and the meaning of "wife" is merely "the woman who uses the broom" or servant! In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z That was Bobby Trench, as he revealed himself from day to day to the woman whom he treated with almost patronising attention, and considered a nonentity. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z These are the professors of the pretended science of supernaturals, alias, nonentities, or at all events of unproved existences, of which the most illiterate hind knows just as much as the proudest hierarch. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z Such a little nonentity as I found he considered his sister to be might think herself lucky to be honoured by such a use. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z As for the nominal head of the house he was a mere nonentity, a mere cipher. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z In my impotent rage I only knew how to curse myself, others, and my own nonentity. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z None but a shallow brain could have judged of Mrs. Clinton as a nonentity, when opportunities for observing her were such as Bobby Trench enjoyed. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z A Council dominated by a Pope who holds himself infallible is a priori a nonentity. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z Robeson was as little known as Borie had been before he was appointed, but he was not the same kind of nonentity. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Wonderful voices usually are given to people who are, intrinsically, more or less nonentities. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z For purposes of foreign and interstate commerce, each state was a nation itself, and the Confederation was a nonentity. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z To tell the truth, it would have been difficult for him to recommend himself in any other way, for he was a rare nonentity, and understood nothing about anything. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z Again, having decided that they are neither "nonentities nor the attributes of entities, we have no choice but to consider them as entities." Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z I am very near wishing that you had been in reality as stupid a nonentity as we were given to understand you were.' The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z To us, perhaps," he cries, in a kind of anguish, "no thought could be so dreadful, no surmise so harrowing, as that we might slip into nonentity. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z An office of this nature is a mere nonentity: it is a place of show, not of use. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z Now, thought is not the subtle nonentity we let ourselves consider it. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z "I am not a puppet of ZANU-PF and if I am a puppet, then I am a proud and educated puppet," he was quoted as saying, calling Archbishop Williams a nonentity and representative of neocolonialism. Anglican Leader to Seek Meeting With Mugabe 2011-10-06T08:49:09Z But he’s a nonentity of the first water, and she at least a positive quantity, not to say a positive force. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z He was no longer the dapper nonentity; he stood there coarse, raving, like a clod-hopper: “You’re coming home with me!” he shouted. The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z Secure in his parliamentary majorities and the favours of his queen, he imagined the people at large mere nonentities, and set them at defiance, while he must have laughed at their tameness and stupidity! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z He remembered Shaw's advice, "Look like a nonentity or you will get cast for villains!" "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z You shew me nonentity itself to be as doubtful as immortality! The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:29.433Z One met beauty as well as brains; wealth as well as wit; and quite as many colourless nonentities as notorieties of every hue. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z I lay now altogether invisible to mortal eye, amidst the mighty movements of the elements—a thing of nought, endeavouring to crawl into nonentity—a tiny percipient amidst the blind urgency of nature. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z Better an efficient machine than a mere nonentity; but an efficient machine may be many things besides, and, under the British system, nearly always is. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Now Mrs. Luttrell was a soulless but ladylike nonentity, with an eye naturally blind to the soul in her girls. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z Back then, little more than a decade ago, Seattle was still a nonentity on the national basketball scene, and only one coach — Ed Pepple at Mercer Island High — regularly got his players into the spotlight. Seattle grows basketball stars 2011-08-21T02:29:32Z Instead of a Duke a nobody; not even a decently born peasant; a nameless husk of humanity, a derelict, a nonentity, the natural son of a notorious rake. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z If it is nothing to the qualities, then they are not related at all; and, if so, as we saw, they have ceased to be qualities, and their relation is a nonentity. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Those were the days of heroes and nonentities; soaring heroes, crawling nonentities. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z Bumps was at present a nonentity, but she was a sturdy little follower, and would as cheerfully have tried to walk a tight-rope as to eat her dinner, had she seen the others attempt it. Jill's Red Bag 2011-08-13T02:00:21.893Z If the constable is good-natured, and loth to take strong measures, he either becomes a semi-accomplice or sinks to a nonentity. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z The one-eyed man, who had been turned into a chuckling and harmless nonentity by the captain's blow and kick, found Brander kindly. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z As a hunter I never received any distinction and am forced to admit as such I am an entire nonentity and failure. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z This more than Flaubert was something not to be got from modern atheistic French "Art for Art's sake," nor from modern Levantine nonentity of character. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z A dining companion noted that the cookie part of the sandwich is usually a nonentity. $25 and Under: New York?s New Frozen Treats 2011-07-19T23:42:41Z It was said, however, that I would not remain a nonentity, but that I would finally emerge from obscurity. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Is measureless space a positive creation, or a negative nonentity! The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z It is the “Common Law” which our government took from English laws which makes a nonentity of a married woman, whose existence is wholly subject to another, and whose identity is only recognized through another. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z For Sue's sake she hid her resentment at being a nonentity. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z In a sense, the bacteria thus honored are not dissimilar figures: Consider them nonentities at your peril, for actually they are major players, canny and infinitely resourceful. Books: A Timely E. Coli Story, Spun as a Legal Thriller 2011-06-27T18:52:32Z All my life until lately, I was kept in a state of nothingness—but I am no longer a nonentity. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z In Ocknell, with an impoverished squire and a nonentity for a parson, no young men came forward during the first three months. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Yes, to all citizens it does defend this right, but you are not a citizen; while a married woman, you are a legal nonentity, without even a soul in law. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z “But, if I hadn’t happened to meet you, I suppose I’d be a nonentity!” she flashed back at him. The Best Policy 2011-06-13T02:00:32.860Z For long years, however, it had been to us a mere deduction from our "doctrine," which all nonentities of all political denominations had mocked at. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 2011-06-04T02:00:16.113Z “They’re trying to turn me from a normal, useful person into a nonentity,” he said with a sigh. Told to Keep Low Profile, Chinese Artist Takes a Stand 2011-06-03T23:53:46Z Their shadowy Arthur has left an undying name in romance, and is a nonentity in history. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z And this, gentlemen, is legal usurpation, also, on the slavish principle of common law—the legal nonentity of the wife, the man and wife being one, and the one, the man! Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z Suffice it, that London in August is a species of nonentity, to all but those amateur architects who “go partnerships” in candle-lit grottos at the corners of courts. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z After the October strike, the capitalistic bourgeoisie consciously blocked the progress of the revolution, the petty middle class turned out to be a nonentity, incapable of playing an independent r�le. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 2011-06-04T02:00:16.113Z For this purpose, let us suppose, to adopt the language of President Edwards, “that nonentity is about to bring forth;” and that an event comes into being without any cause of its existence. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Of what avail is it to us if future generations are wise and noble, if we pass into nonentity? Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Among these, it is perfectly true that there existed many obscurities and some obvious nonentities. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The girls were commonplace nonentities, with no pretensions to beauty or grace. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z The Masters of colleges are really almost nonentities, but have an absurd idea of their own dignity. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z "That is being a nonentity indeed," said the Sirian sage; and then, turning to a follower of Leibnitz, he exclaimed: "Hark ye, friend, what is thy opinion of the soul?" Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z The man is a clod, and the woman a nonentity; except when she chooses to make an exhibition of herself by fainting away. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z It came to me with some pain that in his own circle Hugh was regarded more or less as a nonentity. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z He is a mere nonentity, entitled to no consideration, and with no refuge to which he can fly in the hour of his need. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z A dark-blue heaven lighted by thousands of stars arched above the broad, irregular place, over the antique columns, from whose height a modern art nonentity looks down on Rome. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z In fact, his whole desire seemed to make himself into an entire nonentity. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z He had much sympathy with the belief and mode of thought of the Buddhists, but not the inclination to bury himself in nonentity. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z Blanden knew no fear, not even fear of death, but the full consciousness of the nonentity of existence overcame him. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z Compared with the redoubtable Fuller he was a nonentity in the eyes of the kapitan-leutnant. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z I should doubt, from all I see and hear, that the Indian squaw is that absolute slave, drudge, and nonentity in the community, which she has been described. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z The master a nonentity, apparently; easy-tempered and good-humored; liking the quiet monotony of his humdrum life, and only asking that it may not be interfered with. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z He—Chauvelin—had no power: he was disgraced—a failure—a nonentity to be sneered at. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z The old parson was, it is needless to say, a thorough nonentity, and the skilful attentions of his fair assistant were the more appreciated, because the more rare. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z Small rancher though he was, Tom Walton was not a nonentity in the community. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z A woman of ardent temperament and strong fibre was allied to a feeble nonentity without sap or spirit. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z Even with two of the NFC's best players, LB Patrick Willis and RB Frank Gore, the Niners are a nonentity. Bucs, Rams surprise; Cowboys, Vikings disappoint 2010-12-23T18:38:09Z At the height of the 1970s bloodshed, Videla famously denied the kidnappings that were taking place, saying: "There are no disappearances, they're a nonentity, they don't exist." Former Argentine dictator Videla jailed for life 2010-12-22T22:03:13Z Their nonentity is lost in the multitudinousness of everything else. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z “The is a nonentity in Connecticut today,” Weicker, who formed his own party when he ran successfully for governor in 1990, told me when I visited him at his home in Old Lyme. The Connecticut-Country-Club Crackup 2010-09-25T02:00:00Z He won 50.6 percent of the vote in 2009, after spending a ridiculous sum of money, while running against a complete nonentity. Michael Bloomberg: Stop vilifying my billionaire friends! 2010-09-20T19:30:00Z Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, is a digital nonentity: Its download store commands a meager 0.17% share of the U.S. market, according to Billboard estimates. Digital upstarts still see potential in downloads 2010-07-06T02:38:00Z But we sure can read it as a rejection of the dull, hackish cynicism of the Democratic Party and its expectation that South Carolinians will vote for some un-embarrassing nonentity. The strange, wonderful success of Alvin Greene 2010-06-11T14:05:00Z Chicago, home to one of the Original Six franchises and the country's third-largest media market, was a nonentity, mustering a season ticket base of just 3,400 in 2007. Olympic hockey, playoffs making the NHL cool again 2010-06-01T21:20:00Z As the trustees hasten to leave for the airport, they agree on a nonentity, Mark Winner, an economics professor with a thin résumé and a clean rap sheet. Books on Science: Higher Education and the Pursuit of Living High Off the Hog 2010-05-24T21:27:00Z "Swiss Air," like "Delta Airlines," is, at least grammatically, a nonentity. What's in an airline name? 2010-05-21T15:45:00Z The so-called Vatican City, a political nonentity covering about 0.17 square miles of Rome, was created by Benito Mussolini in 1929 as part of his sweetheart deal between fascism and the papacy. The Pope Should Be Questioned in Sex-Abuse Cases 2010-04-24T02:11:00Z In a world of thuggish advertising and idolised nonentities, if a person's or an institution's tweets are boring or unpalatable, then their followers diminish – no one has to stick around or pretend to be impressed. Top 50 Twitter feeds for the arts 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z When I awoke from seeming nonentity, I was surrounded by many and unknown faces; and my passage back to life was more terrific and painful by far than my exit. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 Forty-five years confound even dust, and reduce to a fearful nonentity all that smiled, and charmed, and inspired. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 He had met the monocled nonentity who represented the interests of Great Britain in the island kingdom. The Princess Galva A Romance He shuts himself up in his class, in his little circle of habits, closes the door, and carefully guards—a nonentity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 Smiling faces, hearty kisses and good wishes had free course and were not cramped into nonentity by modern etiquette. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution She had by no means passed into her dotage, the nonentity of old age, and was possibly not more than seventy or seventy-five, though she looked a hundred. Glories of Spain Not that he means to go back home as yet: liberty is still precious; and adventures, or at least unfettered repose, may be sought at Brighton or Eastbourne before he returns to nonentity. The Gay Adventure A Romance Now it had never cost me a second thought to travel as a pedlar when making my escape from Scotland, but this wishy-washy nonentity of a name annoyed me beyond measure. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec I couldn't bear to be a nonentity all my days. The Bachelors A Novel No king or emperor in the world had the power to keep captive this nonentity, this Haralal. Stories from Tagore Then you can pick your own way, a way that will commend itself to the well-bred nonentities who never accomplish anything. H. R. If he visited her in her own apartment, she made him just the same nonentity. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance Was he such a nonentity in every way that she could remain unconcerned as to any fear of danger from him? East Angels She could watch the fog sweeping up and down in diaphanous forms and winged nonentities. Carnival Why, the official bodies in Vienna were nonentities! Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 Children with her great promise develop sometimes into nonentities, but Bella, at sixteen, had surpassed his wildest prophecies for her. Fairfax and His Pride Paulet was as obedient to the prevailing wind as a weathercock; Wriothesley was an obsequious, greedy sycophant; Paget a humble official with little influence, and the rest were nonentities. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History Thus Alf Neely sank at last to the level of helpless oblivion and nonentity. Asteroid of Fear Lord Radclyffe, tyrannical and didactic, became a nonentity in his own household. The Heart of a Woman He was accused, not of any crime, but of having been simply a nonentity—of having received his salary and spent it, and nothing more. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Street-lighting was poor, for such luxuries are expensive and the city fathers cared little what happened to the poor, diseased, half-starved nonentities. Shock Treatment Under Diocletian the senate became a political nonentity, the last traces of republican institutions disappeared, and were replaced by an absolute monarchy approaching to despotism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" The other was probably Betsey Prig; she was a mere wisp of a woman; or, indeed, she may have been Mrs. Harris herself—her shadow-like figure being the next thing in woman form to nonentity. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. "If what this man says is true, then I am a penniless nonentity whom you are not going to marry." The Heart of a Woman Her pride could not tolerate the thought of being once more a nonentity in her class. A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story While, however, the house of Octavius was conducted after the old-fashioned method, Livia was by no means such a political nonentity as had been the matron of ancient times. Roman Women And yet our annual picture exhibitions are crowded with the portraits of these nonentities. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections He had created the faces of the other three as well, but he had made them into handsome nonentities. Tangle Hold The soul, said this prophet, having become a nonentity, cannot consent; so that whatever it may do, inasmuch as it has not consented, it has not sinned. Priests, Women, and Families The reason why many of us remain merely useful and poverty-stricken nonentities is that we can serve no other purpose in the world. Command In all the gloom of disaster and defeat it is a comfort to know that our President stands higher in his loss of office than the incoming nonentity in his success. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 As usual, the one who was really the greatest nonentity among the latter was most lavish in his contempt. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections And although to our eyes she appears a nonentity as compared with the geisha, her position is in reality a very happy one and greatly to be envied. Japan A Record in Colour You have put yourself in its place; in the place of that power, by which man is man, I see nonentity. Priests, Women, and Families Before the highest Ruler," says Stirner in his rough language, "before the only Commander, we all become equal—equal persons, that is, nonentities. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory It was a matter of wonderment to see these poor creatures developing from a driveling state of nonentity into some capacity for the enjoyment of life, and even to a degree of usefulness. The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University With quiet desperation he pushed through the crowds—in his trim grey Air-command uniform he was one with them, a nonentity like themselves. The Instant of Now The squire of a neighbouring village, who had been a long time in the number of nonentities, is entirely recovered by them. The Tatler, Volume 3 Lull the will to sleep and there is no longer any intention, "The soul, losing its nonentity in its infinity," will be gently annihilated in the bosom of love. Priests, Women, and Families As his partners and helpers, he always engages nonentities, without power of initiative, who blindly follow his orders. Contemporary Russian Novelists An office of this nature is a mere nonentity; it is a place of show, not of use. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 Science announced nonentity and art admired decay; The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay. Poems Appearances are judged as realities, and realities as nonentities. Talkers With Illustrations Nevertheless, all went rightly till the commercial panic of the period above mentioned, when Zack's possessions were reduced to their primitive nonentity, and the old proverb abundantly illustrated, 'Ill got, ill gone.' Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement It became our standard forever, the picture of this nonentity with the hare's body and the man's heart. Contemporary Russian Novelists Death was a nonentity to the ancient artist. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 "A nonentity wouldn't make you what you are, Dawn." The Cartels Jungle The first proposal was, that P. T.’s letters should be returned, that he might feel secure from all possibility of detection; so that P. T. terminates his part in this literary freemasonry as a nonentity. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors His aversion to the impossible type of cultured nonentities was almost too marked. An Ocean Tramp All of us," he says, "are nonentities, deprived of happiness. Contemporary Russian Novelists But now—I'm a nonentity, Mr. Rathbawne, as you know, and not only that, but a man who has taken a false step, from which he can never recover. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel "I represent that nonentity called the government, Captain." The Cartels Jungle The name parquet, which is given to that part of a theatre in America, is not French, and is no word at all, but a miserable affected nonentity of sound. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 You wind up with nonentities as the leaders of your nation. Status Quo It is painful to see a great writer grinding out professional odes, and bestowing the excrements of his genius on royal nonentities. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) This is not to say that the Shah de Perse was a characterless cat, a lymphatic nonentity. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Sorenson had marked him for poverty and nonentity; under the favoring shelter of the irrigation company’s power he might arise from both. In the Shadow of the Hills It follows from this that nonentities often attain the highest social positions, while originality, creative power, perseverance, honesty, responsibility and duty take a back place. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study The baron, honest and brave, but a perfect nonentity, owed his position to the powerful influence of the Colbert family to which he was related through his mother. A Romance of the West Indies She sees that she is forced to compete with those who have full political rights while she herself is a political nonentity. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V Woman's nonentity in the political department of the State is now an anachronism and inconsistent with the prevailing tendencies of social growth.... The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Let us give women every weapon whereby they can defend themselves; let us remove the stigma of political nonentity under which women have been placed. In Times Like These After all, Audrey had married a nonentity: it was the end of her long quest of the eminent and superlative. Audrey Craven How odd a single hobgoblin's nonentity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend It is mocked, derided, by a number of lawyers' clerks and nonentities from third-rate Irish towns. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule With the small, sharp eyes, her most characteristic feature, concealed, the face became almost a nonentity. Against Odds A Detective Story What did she think he was—a fool, a loafer, a uniformed nonentity? The Game of Rat and Dragon Not every one can attain a golden mediocrity; and it was a great step for a man who had hitherto ranked as a nonentity. Audrey Craven She had sunk so low that she saw no degradation in going off to fight French or British wars, while at home remaining a mere political nonentity. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck But there is a Mr. Usher, a docile nonentity, made Secretary of the Interior; of course the Secretary of State will be strengthened thereby. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 The cast of the "Divorce" was being slightly changed, and they had thought it worth while to venture a sovereign on the name of one nonentity who was retiring in favour of another. The Education of Eric Lane He was seeing cataclysmic battle, with Blind Charlie become a nonentity, Blake completely annihilated, and himself victorious at the front. Counsel for the Defense To begin with, I made up my mind ten years ago that whatever I did when I grew up, I wouldn't marry a nonentity. Audrey Craven "And though no one would give up more generously, as a voluntary matter, you could not bear being made a nonentity of, or put in a secondary place." The Marriage of Elinor I ought, however, to have known that The Bradder was not the kind of man who would allow himself to become a nonentity, for he was full of energy and determination. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Of course, that's all in our way—we being Miss Wilson and the cousin, the nonentity. Somehow Good For neither force nor time has any meaning when applied to a nonentity. The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. I can't think of any one you know—not a nonentity—but I should like to bring a friend, if I may. Audrey Craven From the first moment of my arrival upon the platform I had singled him out, the only interesting figure in a crowd of nonentities. The Master Mummer But it does not follow from this, as those not familiar with Hindu lives are too apt to conclude, that woman is therefore a nonentity and a mere helpless drudge in the family. India, Its Life and Thought Try to avoid an unnecessary expenditure of nerve force by treating your adversary—with all due respect to him—as a nonentity. The Complete Golfer The Norwegian, however, has to thank Heaven for a narrow escape, since the whole charge of his gun struck the tassel of his cap, and changed that memento of spousal devotion into its original nonentity. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition The Dean pursued the ruinous policy of being all things to all men; and to-night, together with nonentities and Oxonians of European renown, there was a sprinkling of celebrities from the outside world. Audrey Craven He is the fast young man, who considers you a perfect nonentity if you don't bet. Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches I allude to the increasing curse of Mormonism, a consequence of woman's legalized inferiority or nonentity. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I An entity he is, or a nonentity; an individual, a centenarian, or an oldest inhabitant; but identity is a condition of sameness, of being identical with something. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Exile, loneliness, nonentity for all the best years of his life; and her image, the beloved face of his lost Joan, the only woman's presence in his life. The Rhodesian I'm going to give a grand dinner for Te—for Mr. and Miss Haviland; and I'm not going to ask one—single—nonentity,—there! Audrey Craven For in the first place, Matter, in any other than the phenomenal sense of the term, may not exist: and it will scarcely be said that a nonentity must be either infinitely or finitely divisible. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive This was a timely protest against the whole idea of the old Blackstone code, which made woman a nonentity in marriage. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Surely if anything can equal the fatuity of the hypothesis that nonentity can bring forth, or that a thing can produce itself, it is a serious attempt to refute it. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory But if he had done this, if he had followed the star of court preferment, he would have remained only one of many highly polished nonentities—and would have lost his head at last. Lafayette As good luck would have it, she met Knowles that afternoon in Regent Street, and confided to him her difficulty and her firm determination not to fill the gap with any "nonentity" whatever. Audrey Craven I have often thought that one of our Yankees, with his iron fist, could, by one blow, send monsieur into his nonentity. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. It is but a simulacrum or mirage, and it is but necessary to approach it fearlessly, and walk through it, to discover its essential nonentity. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 He says, too, that the word “nation” is an invention of the grammarians, made to save the trouble of circumlocution, a nonentity! Principles Of Political Economy Or resolve morality into 'reason,' that is, into some purely logical truth, and it then remains in the air—a mere nonentity until experience has supplied some material upon which it can work. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Often he thought he would rather "break stones on the road," drive a hansom cab, or even go on the stage, than be the superfluous secretary of such a dull, though dear nonentity. The Twelfth Hour From 1587 till 1659, they were ruled by Turkish pashas, sent from Constantinople to govern for three years; but in the latter year a military revolt in Algiers reduced the pashas to nonentities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" As to Boniface, in company he was dumb and a nonentity; he had been this evening so remarkably stupid that Bathilde had hardly noticed him at all. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental But, pshaw! she had a mother and a line of nonentities behind her. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk Apart from man, she is an absolute nonentity. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ Science announced nonentity, and art admired decay; The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study But this tranquillity of position, and nonentity of power, by no means suited the taste of Napoleon. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 A public nuisance is really more respectable than a nonentity. The Brown Mouse He must be 385made to feel that he is a nonentity—a grain of dust beneath a chariot wheel, and that he cannot stop it. The Light Shines in Darkness For all practical purposes this hypothetical deity—for the very existence of Brâhm is only assumed as a working hypothesis by the theosophist—is a nonentity to the worshipper. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ The notion of nonentity may thus be called the parent of the philosophic craving in its subtilest and profoundest sense. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy How can they be vanquished by an appeal to a nonentity? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 To make witchcraft a mere pretence, is to impute to Jehovah the making of laws against pretences and nonentities. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse So far as I am concerned, I am just now a hopeless nonentity. Anna the Adventuress In her own way Mrs. Grant had always been gracious and kindly to her husband, but he had been altogether a nonentity in her life. To Love We should only have to assume as a premiss the definition of a nonentity; or rather of a name which has no entity corresponding to it. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) Is there not one man in the Government, surrounded by a crowd of nonentities—the one man filling the exact position for which the Americans have invented the significant word 'Boss'? The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 The ideal is a nonentity; it arises in the inventor and through him; its life is a becoming. Essay on the Creative Imagination He had believed her to be a nonentity, and she was revealing an inner life as intense, as real, as acutely personal as his own. Virginia And even if a thing is a thing, it is a nothing to a nonentity. The Lost Art of Reading "I don't know what has come to me," he said to himself; "I can't settle to any kind of work; and I don't care a straw for sight-seeing with a pack of nonentities." Vixen, Volume III. As soon as he became conscious of his strength, they would be reduced to nonentities. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Contempt is the resource of parvenus, prigs, ugly folk, and fools; it is the mask behind which nonentity shelters itself, and sometimes blackguardism; it dispenses with mind, judgment, and good-will. Tartarin On The Alps However, you must simply view me as a nonentity in any practical relation to such matters. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The specialist’s view of the world logically narrows itself down to a race of nonentities for nothings. The Lost Art of Reading In the future she would think of him, not as a nonentity, not as someone who could be easily passed by, but as one whose life meant something. The Day of Judgment First it is difficult to see how an activity, however un-"transparent," can be directed towards a nothing: a term of a relation cannot be a mere nonentity. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays He was, in truth, a rare phenomenon; so perfect, in one point of view; so shallow, so delusive, so impalpable, such an absolute nonentity, in every other. The Scarlet Letter At last, reduced to nonentity, there is found in the ashes a germ of immortality, which lives beneath these ashes, and in due time will manifest its life. Spiritual Torrents As for the War Office, it was a petty office, controlled by a nonentity, Sir Charles Yonge, who was soon to be transferred to the Mint. William Pitt and the Great War It had enabled her to force herself into the scheme of things; from being a nonentity, she had made herself a person with a mission. Mufti Let them quit, and he isn't news any more—he's a nonentity, he's nothing at all, he's null and he's void. The Thunders of Silence In a few weeks the rectory would be once more tenanted by one of those nonentities the squire had either patronised or scorned all his life. Robert Elsmere Could this command have been addressed to a nation to whom the plural of God was a nonentity? Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion Indeed, Paterfamilias is usually content to sink his own personality and be a nonentity for the nonce on the night of his wife's dancing-party. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Life and power do not issue, here any more than elsewhere, out of folly and nonentity. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Is it that ardent souls of flame By recklessness amuse or shame Selfish nonentities around? Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Miss Huntress was a source of continual satisfaction to Lena, the opposite of a skeleton at the feast, a continual reminder of present prosperity as compared with past nonentity. Jewel Weed The Pope, indeed, is almost a nonentity at home; yet we cannot but feel that this alienation between Italy and her spiritual father is for the real good of the State. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta Thus Cicero, feeling that if this were nothing, then had all his life been a skirmish, one continued skirmish for shadows and nonentities; a feeling of blank desolation, too startling—too humiliating to be faced. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 And Ciccio, splashing up on his bay horse and green cloth, he was a mountebank and an extraneous nonentity, a coloured old rag blown down the Knarborough Road into Limbo. The Lost Girl Nature is inexorable, morally, physically, mentally, and as two generations of atheists will beget a thief, so will two generations of idle rich beget nonentities. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills Simply because the idea is no longer of any value to you; the thing spoken of is a nonentity. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 "He's not a nonentity," the governor objected gently. Anchorite As for “Co,” he was a sleeping partner, and an absolute nonentity. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication Entity means thing or being; hence a nonentity is no thing or nothing. Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois Two generations of idleness will beget nonentities, and three, degenerates. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills Intellectually it is nothing—a sort of existent nonentity, a moral void on which a name would be utterly thrown away. Fighting the Flames He was such a colorless nonentity that he simply seemed to fade into the background of the walls once he had made his entrance. Unwise Child Don’t hurt your own character for a handful of nonentities whose importance you exaggerate! The Fighting Shepherdess “But,” we would retort with scorn, “can any cause be separated from its effect without bringing about, so to speak, the condition of nonentity?” The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar "You are explaining to me that the immensity of the world of creation reaching to awful eternity is only equalled by the immensity of the descent to the shapeless nonentity; and that is your God!" Debts of Honor But as to the commercial success or failure of a periodical, the editor is absolutely a nonentity. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 The other: they are fragments, cranks and nonentities. Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch To do this implies, in any case, that he warrants serious attention; space in histories is not usually wasted on nonentities. John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut In Europe, as you know, till a woman is married she is a nonentity. The Lure of the Mask Since the native South African is a political and economic nonentity, it is not surprising to note that, socially, he is on one side of a great gulf fixed between him and his white neighbors. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Mr. Halliwell's Letters on the Progress of Science sufficiently show that the study of geometry was almost a nonentity in England previously to the commencement of the eighteenth century. Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Mr Luke, the passenger referred to, was considered a weak man, mind and body,—a sort of human nonentity, a harmless creature, with long legs and narrow shoulders. Philosopher Jack In fact, she seemed to be the nearest possible approach to a human nonentity. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story Mrs Merton was busy with a pair of the same, the knees of which had passed into a state of nonentity, while other parts were approaching the same condition. The Settler and the Savage How odd, a single hobgoblin's nonentity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity. Don Juan Why will these nice men marry such nonentities, I wonder? The Making of a Soul The marine officer, Mr Tusk, was a nonentity put into a red jacket. Percival Keene The Duchess was already acquainted with every visitor of note, and would not care to be introduced to insignificant nonentities. More about Pixie Even a nonentity, it appeared, could feel dull when left by herself in a big, empty house, and also could appreciate a little act of thoughtfulness. The Fortunes of the Farrells So mild and obedient—a perfectly nonentity in his own house! More About Peggy Why, he would be a nonentity—a thing! She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. Underlying the entire constitutional order are two principles whose operation would seem to reduce the sovereign to a sheer nonentity. The Governments of Europe Compare "pseudonym," where the prefix is contracted, and "nonentity." "Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students The ideal of nonentity, individual from its very absence of individuality. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Like many women of that period, when all hope of marrying and having a home of her own was past, she sank down into a gentle nonentity and dreamed of Cousin Chilian. A Little Girl in Old Salem And one day we felt called upon to clothe this colorless insipidity, this incarnate nonentity, with some sort of an adjective, and so we threw around its scrawny shoulders this once glorious robe "good." Sermons on Biblical Characters Otherwise 'man' and 'law' are abstractions and nonentities. Letters to His Friends The doctor was a meagre shrimp of humanity, with a peevish expression on his withered little face, as though he were bored with his own nonentity. The Hand in the Dark Miss Prue is the daughter of Mr. Foresight, a mad astrologer, and Mrs. Foresight, a frail nonentity.—Congreve, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 It is better for me to have a nonentity—then I can talk aloud my thoughts without restriction. Man and Maid The result is that the man who has not time to pay visits becomes a social nonentity, and society, in some circles, is simply a "world of women." Etiquette It was almost indecent, this parade of his nonentity! The Coast of Chance In addition to emperors, queens, prophets and priests, we have one that says he is nobody, a nonentity. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 A sickly nonentity, “ever complaining, ever having something the matter with her head, back, or legs.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 I have managed to keep myself alive here by becoming an inoffensive nonentity. Lone Star Planet Olybrius, the then reigning nonentity, died in October of the same year. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation In general, these tasks seemed to be expressly for the swarming and uninspired nonentities, and meant most trivial duties for trivial pay. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Yea, by duty's prime condition Pure nonentity of duty! The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 She was never married, except in name—it was purely a marriage of convenience—the man was a complete nonentity. The Lady Paramount The power of the Crown checks them; therefore they always labour to reduce the sovereign to a nonentity, and by the establishment of the Cabinet they have virtually banished the King from his own councils. Sketches Every one felt it to be in the nature of things; and Ehrenthal himself humbly acted the part of nonentity assigned to him, and consoled himself by eating a whole pheasant. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag They had got through the spring and summer in England partly on their wits, partly through impressing landlords and travelling nonentities with their social importance, and partly through their successes at bridge. The Guests Of Hercules Its disappearance from the stage of time is not an extinction of essence—a reduction to nonentity; it is only a refluence into its original source. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Practically all the rest that I've met are intellectual nonentities—strong on looks and clothes and amusing themselves, and that lets them out. North of Fifty-Three But still I do think since I have come back he sees that I am not quite a nonentity. The Way of Ambition He held that Christ could not be a son, for then there would be a time when he came into being from nonentity. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Why should y's nonentity be used even to set off the all importance of x? The Patient Observer And His Friends Abdu’l-Ḥamíd II, an absolute nonentity, failed to improve the status of his subjects. The Promised Day Is Come He proves that space cannot be an entity, an attribute, or a category of thought, or a nonentity. What is Darwinism? Delia was Max Elliot's wife, a graceful nonentity who, having never done a stroke of work in her life, was perpetually breaking down, and being obliged to rest expensively under the supervision of fashionable doctors. The Way of Ambition To let the negro exercise the full and unrestrained measure of his suffrage, would, in some communities, reduce the white man to the position of political nonentity. An Arkansas Planter Yet if a single consciousness be extinguished in everlasting nonentity, so far as the production of that consciousness is concerned he has wrought for nothing. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life St. Simon praised its new owner as a most worthy and honourable nonentity; but he had the sense to step into the breach and to save the 'Thuana' from destruction. The Great Book-Collectors Only a well-educated nonentity with, for all coherence and purpose in life, a knowledge of art and literature and a helpless feeling for charm. Franklin Kane The rest were nonentities, the set who drift through their six years, making no mark, hurting no one, doing little good. The Loom of Youth But this ideal is in fact the ideal of a nonentity. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Plato, in the Timaus, stigmatizes as a vulgar error the notion that what is not in any place is a nonentity. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Lively characters were also created out of nonentities like the various Judaeans and soldiers, and the shepherds. The Growth of English Drama If she let him go, it would be to own to herself that she had failed to hold him, to see herself as a nonentity. Franklin Kane Hunter was rather a nonentity; his chief attraction was that he usually had the last bit of scandal at his finger-tips; he was safe to be consulted on any point of school politics. The Loom of Youth As an ultimate fact it is a nonentity. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Death, strictly analyzed, is only this abstract conceit or metaphysical nonentity. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life How odd, a single hobgoblin's nonentity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 Everyone so intent upon his pursuit until all else dwindles into a ridiculous nonentity. Violets and Other Tales He was no longer a nonentity; he was looked on as a coming man. The Loom of Youth He praises the passage or transition from nonentity to entity; there falls here also the shadow of that archetypal image of the bridge, which has given to the priest his archaic and mysterious name. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The rivers of emancipated men neither disembogue into the ocean of spirit nor evaporate into the abyss of nonentity, but are blended with infinitude as an ontological integer. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life But what can you expect from a nonentity? The Swindler and Other Stories No, there are not; no, at the bottom of your hearts you feel your nonentity as I render justice to mine. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary "There was an unpleasant story about her, somebody told me once," said one prettily-dressed nonentity to another, as they wandered slowly up and down the velvet lawns at Ranelagh. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance There has been a risk too that the "available" candidate should be some blameless nonentity, to whom no one objects, and whom therefore no one really wants. Abraham Lincoln Between nonentity and being yawns the untraversable gulf of infinity. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Her head was bent, almost as though she did not wish him to see her face—he, the peppercorn, the nonentity, whose opinion mattered so little! The Swindler and Other Stories The world seems to be run by nonentities. The Breath of Life He was a statesman of materialism, playing the popular game, with no end but the terrible game itself, with no stake but his life, and with no responsibility beyond nonentity. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Children are wilted into silence and slumberous nonentity; boys do not bathe to-day—they welter, hour after hour, in the dark water near the shaded rock. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors Why, then, was he not left in peaceful nonentity? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life An undefecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. Scenes of Clerical Life That which organizes the different parts or organs of the human body into a unit, and makes of the many organs one organism, is a nonentity. The Breath of Life But her skepticism barely covered her real chagrin because her nephew was a cadaverous nonentity, with little to recommend him to a title hunter. The Title Market I looked after the scientific welfare of the museum with Lowestoft as my understudy—he was practically a nonentity and an authority on lepidoptera. Masques & Phases Strange, helpless, sublime prince of the universe, beggar of God, when he has attained the summit of illimitable perception, holding immortal joys in full prospect, shall he be dashed back into nonentity? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life We must know of something before we can talk of nothing, of an entity before we can think of nonentity. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. That which makes a sheep a sheep, and an ox an ox, is to science a nonentity. The Breath of Life Plain, stupid, a nonentity?—So much the better—those make the easy wives to manage. The Title Market Nothing intellectual, no intoxication of thought or feeling is mingled with that sensual intoxication which those charming nonentities excite in us. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 Any society which is worth knowing will extend the right hand of fellowship to the self-reliant noble woman, much more readily than to the useless nonentity. Bohemian Society In the same way we use the words nothing, nobody, nonentity, vacuum, absence, space, blank, annihilation, and oblivion. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. We have no name for it but the vital, be it an entity or a nonentity. The Breath of Life They are ruled and governed without representation, existing as mere nonentities among the citizens, and excrescences on the body politic—a mere dreg in community, and so are we. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States They were—Johnson and Alexander Armstrong—and the old chaplain who had been Michael's father's tutor and was now an almost doddering old nonentity also stood waiting in his white surplice at the altar rails. The Man and the Moment Not the ordinary, colourless, respectable being, and still less academic nonentities! The Half-Hearted He that is in want of cash is a nonentity, and wanders in the land unknown. Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers To physical science the soul is a nonentity. The Breath of Life That was all—the registration of a nonentity, it might have seemed—in a wilderness of names. Sally Bishop A Romance Like the snakes of Iceland, their whole history might, from the positive point of view at least, be summed up in the simple statement of their utter nonentity. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science I am not to have a will of my own; I am to bend in all things to yours; you are to be mistress and master, I a nonentity: is it not so? Elster's Folly With Simon killed there were only two men left,—one, rather, for Leclerc is a nonentity. Montlivet That which distinguishes a living machine from a dead machine, science has no name for, except molecular attraction and repulsion, and these are names merely; they are nonentities. The Breath of Life You have little chance with a woman in this world if you are a nonentity. Sally Bishop A Romance Vance, strong personality that hid behind assumed nonentity for some purpose of his own, intruded with sudden violence, demanding an explanation of his presence. Four Weird Tales The rest of the Ministry are nonentities, and by omitting one or two men whose respectability is hardly equal to their ability, Mr. Stuart has raised himself up an Opposition out of his old following. Town Life in Australia How, indeed, is he a Saviour, if the evils from which he saves are nonentities? Unity of Good We have no name for a flash of lightning but electricity, be it an entity or a nonentity. The Breath of Life It is true she is only a foolish girl, who ran away to marry a nonentity—but affairs of state are greater than affairs of the heart. Charred Wood Matter therefore is the reality and the imagination a nonentity, an unsubstantial idea; or an imagination only.' An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles It is not nice to feel such a nonentity. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." Lord Cowper was an honest nonentity who left the country in disgust because he was not backed up by the Government. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent We have no name for that which distinguishes a man from a brute, but mind, soul, be it an entity or a nonentity. The Breath of Life Now, let us substitute for the real world of touch things, which furnishes the explanation of given visual experiences, that philosophic fiction, that pseudo-real nonentity, the Unknowable. An Introduction to Philosophy My dear, she's a perfect nonentity; she might just as well not exist. Her Own Way A Play in Four Acts I may clap a payriod or full stop there," he added, laughing, "inasmuch as the last approaches very near to what philosophers term a vacuum or nonentity. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two I believed you were a nonentity, but I find you possessed of a remarkable mind. Miss Caprice Have, by a misuse of language, injured or lost her only means of persuasion, nothing can preserve her from falling into contempt of nonentity. The Education of Catholic Girls Whether he is to be a constructive force, a nonentity, or a destructive force depends largely on influences during this period. The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals The slaves had snubbed him and made fun of him; the freedmen regarded him with absolute disdain; Valeria's regular visitors treated him as a nonentity. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. I don't believe since the world began there went through this country so many titled nonentities as travelled then, free of cost, on the generous bounty of Mr. Villard. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him No hand—but a handwriting on a wall— A popular nonentity, Still call'd the same,—without identity! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Not good nonentities, who are merely good because they are not bad. The Education of Catholic Girls For any purposes of companionship, his wife was a nonentity; far better that he had been without one. Verner's Pride I have been thinking of it all the morning—picturing myself as an unknown nonentity, vanished from the eyes of the public, in a social grave. Macleod of Dare Wright might have been a nonentity for all he counted. The Rustlers of Pecos County What the trustees said that day they only repeated from gossip: the little gray wisp of a woman was a nonentity—nothing more—with the spirit of a mouse. The Primrose Ring At this moment a form—but whether of friend or foe he could not tell—flitted before his uncertain vision; and then all became darkness and nonentity. Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Her relatives described her husband as "that little nonentity of a man." Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment The national power which the confederation sought to create was an entire nonentity. American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) Was Tycho Brahé a nonentity because he was not Kepler? Doctor Claudius, A True Story The crowd collects accordingly, and includes a Comic Coachman, who, with his Friend—a tall and speechless nonentity—has evidently come out to enjoy himself. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 Like the generality of sophists, he took away a received truth, and left nothing to supply its place; he reasoned falsehood into probability, truth into nonentity. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. Parasols are parachutes; sandals, black bandages; large bonnets, straw sheds, and small ones, nonentities. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 To be sure, there are some men in Deadwood who do not drink, but they are so few and scattering as to seem almost entirely a nonentity. Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills A husband was in attendance—a nonentity with a heavy yellow moustache, who hummed and hawed over his watch. The Inheritors His son and successor reigned three days only; and his son, another nonentity, five years without claiming to be more than King of Ts'in. 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 man who had an honourable position, a work and responsibility, suddenly becomes a nonentity, barely welcomed, and certainly suspected. From Death into Life or, twenty years of my minstry No. They promptly nominate a scoundrelly demagogue and a nonentity who thinks votes are won by going about in shirtsleeves. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him Colonel Jack, after his youthful experiences in pocket-picking, is rather a nonentity, something of a coward, a fellow of no particular wits, parts, or definite qualities of any kind. The English Novel A man who breaks a road to individual distinction by such questionable means may always be tainted; but he is a better public servant than would be some comparatively impeccable nonentity. The Promise of American Life As long as he remained, he was an entombed nonentity. Queed Such a gilded nonentity was Charles Stuart, Duke of Richmond and of Lennox, who, having buried two wives, now began to cast envious eyes on the maid-of-honour whom his Sovereign could not win. Love Romances of the Aristocracy Concentrated upon her husband, adoring him, vain of him, greedily ambitious for his advancement, she had had no time to bestow on a clerical nonentity. The Dweller on the Threshold Young woman, I am sure you will turn your back upon the useless, giggling, irresponsible nonentity which society ignominiously acknowledges to be a woman, and ask God to make you an humble, active, earnest Christian. New Tabernacle Sermons But the time for regular proceeding was past; the city was in the hands of the mob, which imposed on the Pope the acceptance of a ministry of nonentities nominated by it. The Liberation of Italy Nouns are used to denote the nonentity or absence of a thing, as well as its reality; as, nothing, naught, vacancy, non-existence, invisibility. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures And you decline to love me unless I turn into a selfish, dependent, conventional nonentity, which you adore because respectable. The Common Law Any nonentity—be he General or Private—who could bring relief to Kimberley would eclipse the fame of a bigger man than "Bobs." The Siege of Kimberley He listened idly, at first, to what seemed to be a one-sided conversation, in a dull, emotionless feminine voice—a discourse on fashion, society chit-chat, and hopeless nonentities, interspersed with bits of gossip. One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks' Or else—what is indeed more frequent—the reader's fainting spirits are repaired not by the excellence of the manuscript before him, but by its absolute literary nonentity, a kind of intellectual Absolute Zero. Shandygaff He is a nonentity in the committee-room, and his help rather deprecated by the party than desired. The Amateur Poacher Really I think it very shocking that we run to Greece, to Italy, to &c., &c., and leave all at home lying buried as a nonentity. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. A month or two now, I suppose, will bring us back to the old nonentity again. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Why did this nonentity—for one didn't have to see her to be sure that she was that—have to interrupt and rob him of his pleasure? One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks' To Lady Chicksands, whom most people regarded as a tiresome nonentity, he was particularly kind and courteous. Elizabeth's Campaign It is not often one can meet with such a nonentity. The Duel and Other Stories I am not accustomed to being regarded as an amiable nonentity, I assure you. Greatheart It is the echoes, the nonentities, of whom men grow tired; it is the women with some flavor of individuality who keep the hearts of their husbands. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays Until I knew her, I was a nonentity. One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks' Seryozhka in himself is a nonentity, a sluggard, a drunkard, and a wastrel, but when he has his red lead or compasses in his hand he is at once something higher, a servant of God. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories The fact that I was in her power and reduced to a complete nonentity before her charms gave her the same sort of satisfaction that visitors used to feel in tournaments. The Darling and Other Stories One wants to play a striking, independent, noble part; one wants to make history so that those generations may not have the right to say of each of us that we were nonentities or worse. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories This was not a wife, not the head of a house, not even a servant, but more like a dependent, a poor relation not wanted by anyone, a nonentity . The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories It might be added that Europe was never quite just to him, and was deceived a third time, when it took him after his fall for an exploded mountebank and nonentity. Robert Browning And what is all this but to pray for a nonentity, a mere creature of their own mind? Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive I am timid before nonentities, idiots, brutes, who are immeasurably my inferiors mentally and morally; I am afraid of porters, doorkeepers, policemen, gendarmes. The Darling and Other Stories After having, by their great power and capacity for agitation, roused the country to revolution and internal disputes, it was found necessary to put them down, and from that time forward, they became mere nonentities. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Young woman, I am sure you will turn your back upon the useless, giggling, painted nonentity which society ignominiously acknowledges to be a woman, and ask God to make you an humble, active, earnest Christian. The Abominations of Modern Society Life stands on the verge of a single breath; and this world is an existence between two nonentities. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 It acted as an eclipse—it annihilated him—made him a mere nonentity—rendered him despicable in my eyes. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 485, April 16, 1831 |
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