| 单词 | purposefulness |
| 例句 | There was a calm purposefulness to her movements that he liked. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z James Whiteside carries her through, with the terrific purposefulness that marks everything he does. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ Dancers in This Season’s Performances 2013-12-31T20:45:44Z With silent, serious purposefulness and to the sounds of distant, rumbling thunder, the girls carry the branch, which now draws a straight line between them. ‘Petite Maman’ Review: Into the Woods 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z His own choreography embraces both the grace and line of ballet and the weight and purposefulness of modern dance. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The purposefulness of the clothing was also in their construction. Milan: Hemlines rise and fall for summer 2013 2012-09-22T22:01:04Z Though the sounds and colorings of the orchestra were impressive, what mattered more was the purposefulness and clarity of the playing. Review: Tanglewood Orchestra Celebrating Its 75th 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Despite her outer calm and strange purposefulness, she becomes the embodiment of all this ballet’s pain. They’ve Come Undone: Giselle, Lucia and Romantic Madness 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z “This Bright River” sustains so many attractive quirks that its lack of purposefulness is not a burning issue. Books of The Times: ‘This Bright River’ by Patrick Somerville 2012-07-01T22:02:29Z The appeal is in the purposefulness of boat design, the elegance that comes from performing exacting tasks well. Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth – review 2013-06-01T23:05:24Z So Genesis is powerful polemic, that allows its readers to be soberly realistic about the tragic state of the world, and yet live in hope, courage and purposefulness. The Book of Genesis, part 4: The problem and the answer 2011-01-03T10:00:02Z Fleabag segues with canny purposefulness among earnest wistfulness and dismissive flippancy, scorching pain and echoing, hollow silence, giving equal weight to each. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z To watch her is to admire a mind in action: She exudes self-belief, purposefulness, intelligence, generosity. Wendy Whelan Leaves City Ballet After 30 Years 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Although correlation does not demonstrate causation, the relationship between purposefulness and longevity was still significant after taking into account elements such as age at the start of the study, gender and education. Does your life have a purpose, or are you just a drifter? Quiz 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z He left dozens of dead men strewn across Paris in 2009's "Taken" as proof of his lethal purposefulness. 'Taken 2': Liam Neeson sequel messes with a good thing 2012-10-03T23:28:04Z “There was a purposefulness to making this coverage seem almost like it was a video game or a TV show,” she recalled. Look back in laughter: ‘The Daily Show’ celebrates at 25 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Yet he flounders and finally clowns, while the music sweeps through its knots with a purposefulness he can’t match. Dance: How Shall We Know the Choreographer? By His Dances and More 2010-03-12T00:29:00Z Mr. Cerveris’s performance catches the extraordinary blend of charming good manners and absolute artistic purposefulness that so characterized Balanchine. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ a Theatrical Portrait of Balanchine 2013-06-10T21:45:47Z And grown-ups everywhere ascribe purposefulness to the world at large, understanding the workings of the universe in terms of divine agency — another silly mistake! The Twain Shall Meet 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z The movie expands upon its echoes of the classic TV series “The Prisoner” with admirable purposefulness. ‘Vivarium’ Review: This Is Not Your Beautiful House 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z With a hard glare second only to Clint Eastwood’s in terms of its concentrated malice, and with a sense of astute purposefulness, his Parker turns the tables with ruthlessness tempered by an austere moral sensibility. ‘Parker’: Hard-as-nails malice put to good use 2013-01-24T23:35:34Z This desire for direction and purposefulness also surfaces in "Keepers", where the poet finds himself admiring beekeepers, envious of their cultivating "something / of substance, with a taste and use, obvious to anyone." The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z Small quantities of home improvement supplies, such as cement, wire, plywood and lumber, add heft and purposefulness to his ramshackle assemblages. Paul Pascal Theriault: Turning everyday junk into childlike wonder 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z A miracle of purposefulness and intention, their staging hits all the high notes and the low notes of a complicated era. Before 'La La Land' and 'Dear Evan Hansen' there was 'Dogfight' 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The bright purposefulness of her choreography is engaging. Critic’s Notebook: Troy Schumacher and BalletCollective Open Eyes 2013-08-19T21:42:28Z Later, however, when she became a novelist, she realized that purposefulness is fundamental to living systems, to the structure of art forms as well as organisms. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Paired with Fice's vocal clarity and stubborn purposefulness, the song carries an overall sense of slowing down on purpose, like "You might drive through Tacoma, but you will not drive through this track." Fice did it: Neko Case's "Thrice All-American" finally sampled for Tacoma rap song 2010-06-15T00:23:00Z As as you walk through the show, the beat of ideological purposefulness grows numbing. ‘Paint the Revolution’ Offers Mexican Muralist Muscle and Delicate Beauty 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z No longer in command of his once estimable gifts, the increasingly senile Gardner pursues a critical study of other poets with dotty purposefulness but without analytical skills. Theater Review: Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham in ?Painting Churches? 2012-03-07T03:00:16Z Her gait combines the uncertainty of the perpetually inebriated with an angular, stalking purposefulness that persists long after Sandra, who becomes a successful career woman, has swapped weed for wine. Review: In ‘Love, Love, Love,’ All You Need Is Selfishness. 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Beneath this intrepid purposefulness, however, runs a treacherous current of doubt — both the everyday bafflement of the foreigner in Japan and the persistent question, “Why am I here?” An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Before the production begins, cast and crew members are discovered roaming the aisles with distraught purposefulness. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, the atmosphere that permeates Turner Contemporary is one of immediacy and purposefulness. Turner Contemporary's boardwalk empire 2011-04-06T20:30:00Z Speaking about Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin’s 41-year-old star whose recent move to the team reinvigorated his competitive edge, de la Rosa cited motivation and purposefulness as bigger obstacles than physical deterioration for aging drivers. Is Lewis Hamilton too old to keep winning? Other drivers say it’s complicated. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The study found that exercise amplified people’s purposefulness over time, while simultaneously, a sturdy sense of purpose fortified people’s willingness to exercise. The Year in Fitness: Shorter Workouts, Greater Clarity, Longer Lives 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z What would this sort of focused purposefulness look like for our leaders? Opinion | Omicron invites more dread. The country can’t afford to give in to it. 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z “There is an enormous undercurrent of planning, of intent and of purposefulness that we all need to wake up to.” White supremacists are returning to Charlottesville. But this time, they’re on trial. 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z As was the state’s poise and purposefulness all week, frankly. Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Watch her purposefulness as their shots become more lashing and they break down. Perspective | Chris Evert played tennis with a patience that’s in current demand 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Having a professional to discuss her concerns about each scene before shooting ‘‘brought a sort of consciousness and awareness and purposefulness to these scenes that I had never had before,’’ she said. The Sex Scene Evolves for the #MeToo Era 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Where there had been purposefulness and predictability, now there was neither. Freedom without constraints: how the US squandered its cold war victory 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But The Current War lacks that film’s purposefulness and cohesion. The Current War is basically Amadeus for electricity 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The purposefulness of the Israelis springs from “the in-gathering of the exiles.” Observer archive: on a kibbutz, 26 May 1958 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z “When she’s not boxing, Shields has the open, inquisitive face of a child, but in the ring it hardens into terrifying purposefulness,” Levy wrote. Claressa Shields Tries to Draw a Crowd to Women’s Boxing 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z A grim purposefulness is the only apparent qualification he brings to the table. ‘The Wedding Guest’ review: Kidnapping tale comes with veiled motivations 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z We are being driven mad by purposefulness, including guilt that we can’t be there, and be on, for our children every minute of the day. Perspective | We’ve so overscheduled our kids that doctors are now prescribing playtime 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Were Clinton’s purposefulness, pluck and keen need to feel people’s love connected to that? Opinion | Losing Fathers, Then Making History 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z “As for the countryside, no greater contrast is imaginable than that between the picturesque squalor of the Arab villages, now mostly dead and deserted, and the sober purposefulness of Jewish settlements,” he added. 'Stubbornly fighting for life': how Arthur Koestler reported the birth of Israel 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z With a look of reflection and purposefulness, he discussed his upbringing and fondly recalled a vivid childhood memory from the 1950s: watching Billy Graham sermons on television with his father. Opinion | In Donald Trump, Evangelicals Have Found Their President 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Short-term thinking is an obstacle to purposefulness, say developmental psychologists. Why Teens Need a Sense of Purpose 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The association with grip strength did not remain, suggesting that the effects of purposefulness alone may not be as strong. Purpose in Life Linked to Strength and Mobility in Old Age 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z His manner is almost diffident, yet he’s steadfast in his purposefulness. ‘The Lost City of Z’ review: a man’s obsessive jungle quest 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z According to the “Argument for Virtuous Engineers”, it was reasonable to assume that our creators were benevolent because the capacity to build sophisticated technologies required “long-term stability” and “rational purposefulness”. God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Twitter and on her website, the singer is promoting “The Weight of These Wings” with the slogan “Double album, one story,” which speaks to a purposefulness in her approach. On 'The Weight of These Wings,' Miranda Lambert tells her side of a very public story 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Short-term thinking is an obstacle to purposefulness, say developmental psychologists. Why Teens Need a Sense of Purpose 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The absence of news isn’t really an indictment of Norman’s energy or purposefulness as a biographer. Paul McCartney’s Magnificent Melodic Gift 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Showing a combination of Austrian tenacity, Finnish purposefulness and Dutch flair, the researchers pursued the question more deeply. A Point of View: What does vanilla yogurt have to do with the secret of happiness? - BBC News 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z To say as much, though, gives the books a chronicler’s purposefulness that their sentences belie. The Peculiar Radiance of Henry James’s Memoirs 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “One can only see a political purposefulness in the insistence of creditors on new cuts in pensions after five years of looting under the bailouts.” Greek crisis: Draghi calls for deal 'very soon' as markets slide - live 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z This included gregariousness, friendliness, assertiveness, poise, talkativeness, social understanding, warmth, pleasantness, empathy, cooperation, sympathy, conscientiousness, efficiency, dutifulness, purposefulness, cautiousness, rationality, perfectionism, calmness, impulse control, imperturbability, cool-headedness, and tranquility. How Does IQ Relate to Personality? 2014-04-21T15:35:00Z "This was not achieved by managerial box-ticking but by a moral purposefulness in everything they did," wrote Sir Michael, introducing the report. Fears for children missing school 2013-11-19T02:04:43Z He said it was not as beautiful as some of the other other vehicles at the time but had a "striking purposefulness about it". Fangio's F1 Mercedes to be auctioned 2013-07-12T03:02:08Z The latter extends to the care and purposefulness of her delivery of text, so that her every utterance commands attention. IHT Rendezvous: At the Paris Opera, a 'Carmen' in Search of Catharsis 2012-12-12T17:06:33Z “One can only see a political purposefulness in the insistence of creditors on new cuts in pensions after five years of looting under the bailouts.” Greek crisis: Draghi calls for deal 'very soon' as markets slide - live 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z “From every standpoint — my independence, my sense of purposefulness, my self-esteem, my life planning — this is just not what I was planning.” Majority of New Jobs Pay Low Wages, Study Finds 2012-08-30T23:46:53Z As impressive as the win was, however, what’s more astounding is the systematic purposefulness with which the US earned the top place on the podium. The Fab Five: U.S. Women Gymnasts Win First Team Gold Since 1996 2012-07-31T23:35:17Z James early described the former fact, showing that the mechanism of habit can give the directedness or purposefulness in thought's products, provided that mechanism includes something paralleling the problem, the aim, or need, in question. The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z The war, furthermore, has been a revelation of the fundamental purposefulness of the rising generation. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z The junior cadets’ purposefulness sets the tone for the entire school, Mr. Shama said. On Education: At High School in Queens, R.O.T.C.?s Enduring Influence 2011-06-20T02:00:28Z There was a solemnity, a wrapped-up purposefulness about him this morning; she dared not ask him what he was going to do. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z All the same, there had been a purposefulness about Deschamps' side that too few visitors to this ground shown. Chelsea 2-0 Marseille 2010-09-28T20:35:00Z Ozil has been prized, if not celebrated, for a while and has a purposefulness about him. World Cup 2010: Wizardry of Mesut Ozil marks out Germany's next star 2010-06-14T23:06:00Z In none of these cases, however, did the bull act with the malice and cold-blooded purposefulness shown by the bull I was forced to kill. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open It was ugly—ugly in its pink shapelessness, ugly in its slimy half-sentient movements, in its very purposefulness. Contamination Crew Nature, especially in the realm of organic life, the animal and plant world, appears to be filled with marvels of purposefulness, with riddles of development and differentiation, in short with all the mysteries of life. Naturalism And Religion He came in through the front door, and there was purposefulness in his stride that had not been there when I left him back at the old hulk. B-12's Moon Glow The marvel she inspired in him deepened daily, so wonderful seemed her purposefulness, her energy, her faith in herself. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real She could see, beneath their pale, wooden pretence of composure and civic purposefulness, the dark stream that contained them all. The Rainbow Although Bob was still distant there was 6 a purposefulness about his stride and about the way he waved a response to their greetings that caught his chum’s attention. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards And purposefulness as a potentiality is thus carried back to the very foundation and “beginning,” to the fundamental conditions and primary factors of the cosmos itself. Naturalism And Religion That Beulah was not the most purposeful member of her class merely argues that an almost abnormally high standard of purposefulness was maintained by practically every individual in it. Turn About Eleanor To the piety of a Saint Teresa she added the passion of a Josephine Butler, the purposefulness of an Elizabeth Fry, and the practical sagacity of a Frances Willard. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds “How many are you?” inquired the General Manager, with a note of purposefulness in his voice. Children of the Desert He was looking for others who shared not only his viewpoint but his purposefulness. This Crowded Earth We must remember, however, that there was a time when the same 'purposefulness' was believed to exist in the cosmos where everything seemed to turn literally and metaphorically around the earth, the abode of man. Science and Morals and Other Essays Something of the old boyishness and impetuosity was gone, a new purposefulness—not of the will but rather of the spirit—had supplanted it and engendered an unwonted serenity. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands And it has been used in the war with a purposefulness of aim and a versatility of method that betoken long and systematic study. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers It seemed that he understood; for he faced the painted curtains with sudden purposefulness. Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old She looked at the gaunt, strong features, the massive chin, the sensitive, firm mouth, the lines of self-control and purposefulness around eyes and lips, and over all the deep-seated sadness that made Enoch's face unforgettable. The Enchanted Canyon In the first place the "purposefulness" of the movements of the planets is not affected in the very least by the question of heliocentricism. Science and Morals and Other Essays There was a dumb purposefulness about the men's movements that sickened Rhoda. The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert Jack followed aimlessly, his hands in his pockets, his new Stetson—that did not look so unusual here in Quincy—pulled well down over his eyebrows and giving his face an unaccustomed look of purposefulness. The Lookout Man The Englishman is as businesslike in his politics, particularly his external politics, as in business, even if he covers his purposefulness with an air of polite indifference. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics He was conscious of a purposefulness and a keen interest in life to which he had long been a stranger. The Enchanted Canyon To Douglas, already there was something hallowed about the quiet interior as if somehow the yearning with which he had builded it had given the insensate wood a curious high purposefulness. Judith of the Godless Valley She saw his tenderness, his purposefulness, the bigness of his mind and spirit. The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert Men of ferocious concentration and women detestable in their purposefulness were to be seen through the passing windows. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 It is by meeting these two requirements, of ulterior wastefulness and proximate purposefulness, that any given employment holds its place as a traditional and habitual mode of decorous recreation. Theory of the Leisure Class In this way reading aloud is given purposefulness. The Elson Readers, Book 5 And Douglas was filled with a new purposefulness that was almost happiness. Judith of the Godless Valley That this was to be the end was evident from the electrical purposefulness which animated the old hands. Roving East and Roving West To the listeners it seemed that he shook mankind by the throat and that by the power and purposefulness of his own solitary figure he revealed the pitiful weakness of his fellows. Marching Men Self-respect is at the root of all purposefulness, and a failure in an enterprise deliberately planned deals a desperate wound at one's self-respect. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day She knew that if she relaxed her purposefulness for an instant the love for him would rush over her, weaken her. The Seventh Man He was of the tribe of the Monumwezi, of medium height, compactly and sturdily built, carried himself very erect, and moved with a concentrated and vigorous purposefulness. The Land of Footprints The statement that woman is as complete in her own right as man is in his, agrees with the attitude above- mentioned if we correlate the superiority and inferiority of women with ``purposefulness.'' Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students They had retrieved their own weapons, and they advanced upon Roddy with a purposefulness that seemed horrible to him. Penrod and Sam |
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