| 单词 | operose |
| 例句 | Stephens called it “dry operose quackery ... mere chaff not studied from nature, and therefore worthless, never felt, and therefore useless”. Rebels of art and science: the empirical drive of the Pre-Raphaelites 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It seems to me a circuitous and operose way of relieving myself to put upon your community the emancipation which I ought to take on myself. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Nor is the ascription of existence to universality, particularity, and co-inhesion dependent on any sui generis existence of their own; for such an hypothesis is operose, requiring too many sui generis existences. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy The common Scots saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, “he must have had little to do that made that!” might be put as epigraph on all the song-books of old France. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) The more curious and operose Manufactures are, the more Hands they employ; and that with the Variety of them, the Number of Workmen must still encrease, wants no Proof. A Letter to Dion The different modifications of the vowel sounds are effected by minute changes in the conformation of the organs; those of the articulations are made by more distinct and operose inflections of the organs. Elements of Gaelic Grammar The atmosphere of operose indolence, prolonged through centuries and centuries, stifles; nor can antiquity and influence impose upon a mind which resents monkery itself as an essential evil. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series An operose and expensive establishment of a Supreme Court was made, and charged upon the revenues of the country. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) How came it, when a Greek sculptor had completed some operose performance, that his countrymen bore him in triumph thro' their city, and rejoiced in his prosperity as identical with their own? The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art He that gives most Trouble to Thousands of his Neighbours, and invents the most operose Manufactures is, right or wrong, the greatest Friend to the Society. A Letter to Dion He might have considered that the facility and vivacity of his pleasing compositions were preferable to that art, that habitual pomp, and that ostentatious eloquence, which prevail in the operose labours of Johnson. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions In the execution, it was an operose business on both sides of the water. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) A complex, operose office of account and control is, in itself, and even if members of Parliament had nothing to do with it, the most prodigal of all things. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) To most persons this mode of confutation was by far too operose; but they might have confoundedly puzzled the philosopher in verbal disputation. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 Well, I go on in the office, operose nihil agenda, very operose, and very nihil too. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 The common Scotch saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, "he must have had little to do that made that!" might be put as epigraph on all the song books of old France. Familiar Studies of Men and Books The style too is in many places below Leighton's ordinary style—in some places even turbid, operose, and catechrestic;—for example,—"to trample on smilings with one foot and on frownings with the other." Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. Browne might himself have obtained the same conviction by a method less operose, if he had thrust his needles through corks, and set them afloat in two basins of water. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons |
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