| 单词 | sensitiveness |
| 例句 | Nina Raine's direction, balancing sensitiveness with stringency, beautifully combines these diverse talents and saves a debut from disaster. Longing – review 2013-03-10T00:05:34Z “We need to make sure development policies keep the sensitiveness of Himalayas in mind to avoid such damage in the future.” India’s devastating monsoon season is a sign of things to come, as climate and poor planning combine 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The chapter characterizes non-believers as “handicapped by obstinacy, sensitiveness, and unreasoning prejudice.” West Virginia atheist inmate sues over Christian programming 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The two unionists spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitiveness of the issue. The Latest: Young techie finds “kill switch” for cyberattack 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z But he wants the international community to appreciate the "sensitiveness of the matter". Malawi 'suspends' anti-homosexual laws - BBC News 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z France will also seek to “avoid an escalation” between Russia and Turkey, according to a French diplomatic official who spoke anonymously because of the sensitiveness of the issue. French president to visit Moscow to push for stronger coalition against IS militants 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Like the cannas, he required protection from frost, for there was a very real sensitiveness beneath all that flamboyance, and it was the knowledge of this that kept Sylvia from criticizing him at all severely. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Various physicists have attempted to measure the sensitiveness of the ear by estimating the amplitude of the molecular movements necessary to call forth the feeblest audible sound. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The ends of the visual nerves, like our fingers, are endowed with varying degrees of sensitiveness. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z There is no questioning the value of social sensitiveness in respect to the development of character in the young. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z This sensitiveness continued, and even was exaggerated in the time of the bloodiest persecution. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z He responded to the moods of Nature with a sensitiveness that was natural to him, but it was her quiet aspects which most affected him. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z The limits of sensitiveness of each colour sensation are not exactly defined, but vary slightly from one individual to another, especially in cases of partial colour-blindness, and are modified by conditions of fatigue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z We shall hardly go astray if we regard genius as only a slight deviation from the average mental endowment—as possessing simply a greater sensitiveness of cerebral reaction and a greater swiftness of reaction. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Fear shows its most interesting aspects in the form of what has been called social sensitiveness; that is, bashfulness, shyness, reticence, and the like. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z She also knew the sensitiveness of man's vanity and the danger either of starving it or dealing it a sudden blow. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z In all cases a law must be considered valid only within the limits of the sensitiveness of the instruments by which we get our measurements. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z These properties are more easily demonstrated in the case of visible rays on account of the great sensitiveness of the eye. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z He had in his character a Stuart strain of sensitiveness, amounting to morbidness. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Slowly, under proper guidance and direction, the sensitiveness wears away through repeated experience of a contrary sort, and such qualities as create a self-reliance take its place. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z "You don't really," he replied, and she turned away with a sigh of exasperation at the astonishing lack of sensitiveness in the male. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z With a sensitiveness and courtesy which are almost peculiar to the Indian warrior, he endeavored to decline a shelter which would be likely to bring Barton and his family into some peril on his behalf. The Frontiersmen 2012-04-10T02:00:18.933Z It is possible by means of beats to measure the sensitiveness of the ear by determining the smallest difference in pitch that may give rise to a beat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The "shrinking sensitiveness" of these young ladies is held by themselves to be most thoroughly English. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Sometimes, owing to the extreme sensitiveness of many high explosives, shells will burst on impact with the water, which is churned white by the explosion, as under the triple screws of an Atlantic liner. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z One felt in talking to him that a man who still read The Lancet after twenty-five years of Cherrington evinced a sensitiveness to medical progress that was laudable and peculiar. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z A moment's reflection will disclose the reason of the remarkable differences observed in human beings in the matter of sensitiveness. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z This is a remarkable illustration of the sensitiveness of the ear. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The author has no intention of inflicting any further pain upon the sensitive minds of some, who, in writing to him, have quite overlooked the idea that he, the author, had any sensitiveness whatsoever. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z When it is in the state of the highest sensitiveness and the potential or frequency be varied, the sensitiveness is rapidly diminished. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z Callous cruelty disappears before the sensitiveness of a cultivated imagination. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z So, on the other hand, may be conceived his excessive sensitiveness to anything sounding like a reproach that reached him through the vehicle of verse. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z They are bare, and are miracles of sensitiveness. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; Ð applied to the senses, or the understanding. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z This power of the eye rests upon two things, namely, the rectilinear propagation of the disturbance by which it is effected, and upon its sensitiveness. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z The white mantle, that in his sensitiveness was always used to hide himself from view, was cast aside, that the Great Healer might see his great need. Joel: A Boy of Galilee 2012-03-24T02:00:17.137Z To attain sensitiveness in this respect the parts must be light and easy both to move and to operate. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The tentative playing is like the process of "fixing" againstPg 115 sensitiveness to lights; and the final work with the printed music is the retouching. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Although Edith's moral courage was great, she possessed that physical timidity and sensitiveness to outward impressions that belongs to the poetic temperament. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z On account of its marvellous sensitiveness to electrostatic or magnetic disturbances it may be the means of sending signals through submarine cables with any speed, and even of transmitting intelligence to a distance without wires. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z For a little while I had noticed Marie's more than usual excitability, accompanied by occasional bursts of grief, without any apparent cause; but, knowing her extreme sensitiveness, I thought but little of it. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z His mind retained the most lifelike impressions, but its sensitiveness was of the photographic kind; it was confined to actual experiences. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z We may develop it, as to its sensitiveness, but we cannot acquire a nose by learning. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z A morbid sensitiveness to moral evil, an exaggerated sense of his own sins, and of the strict requisitions of the spirit of the times, clouded his natural gayety. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z Its great sensitiveness, when very long, is probably due to the motion of the particles of dust suspended in the air. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z It should be remembered that the Schneiderian membrane is midway in sensitiveness, as it is in location, between the conjunctival and buccal surfaces, and is readily irritated by strong applications. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The false position was almost unbearable to a man of his fine sensitiveness, and that he had made it himself did not make it less easy to endure. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z To these I should add an equally strong instinct in many persons—their sensitiveness to associations. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Very commonly a nervous disturbance and sensitiveness are observed, and in women that are not robust there may be mental depression and irritability. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z When the brush assumes this form it may be brought to a state of extreme sensitiveness to electrostatic and magnetic influence. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z Whether the cellular tissue is simultaneously implicated can only be determined by a digital examination after the abdominal sensitiveness has subsided. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Maintain outward serenity, let the torrent rage as it may within, and never allow the world to know its power to wound you through your undue sensitiveness! The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z It is uncertain how much of the inequality in tactile sensitiveness is due to individual exercise and experience, though it is certain that tactility in little-used parts can be greatly increased by use. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z This gives the sensitiveness of the eye for the diminution in intensity at the other end of the scale. Colour Measurement and Mixture 2012-02-27T03:00:13.987Z The curious feature is the great sensitiveness, the slightest change in the distance of the plates producing considerable variations in the intensity or strength of the currents. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z If the obstructed vein is superficial, the seat of the thrombus is indicated by the resistance and sensitiveness of the part. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The intensity of his nature, his open-mindedness, frankness, and spiritual sensitiveness, his fervency of aspiration and his outspokenness, made the office of settled pastor and steady routine preacher distasteful to him. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z And yet there is nothing to account for it, except this absurd sensitiveness which is growing upon me. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z At other times there is an abnormal sensitiveness to the sovereignty, not to say the despotism of ethics. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z The sensitiveness may be rendered extreme by making the frequency such, that the primary itself, without any plate attached to its free end, satisfies, in conjunction with the closed secondary, the condition of resonance. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z In France leeches applied to the abdomen are much used as a means of relieving peritoneal sensitiveness. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Mr. Bingham obviated this evil by charging hydrate of lime with bromine vapour, which not only removed the trouble of condensation, but increased the sensitiveness of the prepared plate. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z A look of vexation crossed her face, which, with quick and painful sensitiveness, he interpreted. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z This sensitiveness in regard to personal identity is strangely lacking in many modern students of literature. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z He fancied that she would be moved by his sensitiveness to her judgment; but, without a tremor, she tore the pages out of her shorthand book and threw them into the waste-paper basket. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z But the ears of an owl are a very miracle of sensitiveness. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z Subsequently Mr. Goddard discovered that the vapour of bromine, added to that of iodine, imparted an extraordinary degree of sensitiveness to the prepared plate, and reduced the time of sitting from minutes to seconds. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z I have the morbid sensitiveness of sick men. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z We used to dread going in for sticking plaster, because he disliked to see that we had cut ourselves, both for our sakes and on account of his acute sensitiveness to the sight of blood. Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z Your sensitiveness to Beatrice betrays the fount of your success. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z But the ear of the owl is a miracle of sensitiveness. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z There is no doubt that some such man as Arthur existed, though it is hardly likely he was the model of refined sensitiveness and perfect chivalry romancers have made him out to be. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z This hatred of injustice and its correlative cruelty, especially towards animals, attained in her the force and dignity of a passion, her sensitiveness on this score making the chief mental misery of her life. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z Even Dr. Bellair seemed to her present sensitiveness an alien, cruel power. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z This extreme sensitiveness to love is characteristic of the late Middle Ages, however absurd and overdrawn it may appear to us. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z We pass on to notice the remaining devices for restoring the metallic filings tube to a condition of sensitiveness or receptiveness. Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy 2012-01-09T03:00:20.570Z Perhaps Hardy's proneness to dwell on the skeletonic grin of life is due to his exceeding sensitiveness to beauty. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z For a few moments he played the combination of awkwardness, sensitiveness, and diffidence. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z A similar sensitiveness had converted her into a vague socialist. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z He was a young man, and at the time I credited him with unusual sensitiveness and sympathy: but when I learned that his name was Doran I was less sure that he deserved credit. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z It is found that with this steel coherer, a small amount of magnetism in the particles increases its sensitiveness, and to obtain this, a ring magnet is employed in connection with a coherer tube. Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy 2012-01-09T03:00:20.570Z The sensitiveness of the retina could here not avail much. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z He struggled for a time under a feeling of apparent diffidence and sensitiveness, and these only added to his awkwardness. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z Such are gravity, cohesion, rigidity, fluidity, sensitiveness to light, and so forth. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z His sensitiveness seemed to me curiously out of harmony with his large powerful frame, with his manly dark colouring, with his great massive hands and strong square-tipped fingers. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z He ascertained that there was a complete correspondence between the sensitiveness of the tubes used as telegraphic instruments and the form of the characteristic curve of current and voltage drawn by the above-described method. Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy 2012-01-09T03:00:20.570Z It is well known that Cazotte had joined the sect of Martinists, and among these enthusiasts increased his natural sensitiveness and his religious fervor. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Consequently the regularity or irregularity of the variations can be observed and traced to the secondary influences producing them, such as the section of the inlet and outlet valves and the sensitiveness of the governor. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z Notwithstanding this over-weening sensitiveness in private matters, he wielded one of the boldest pens, and encouraged others to greater and more free expression of their opinions than they otherwise would have dared to declare. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z He, too, had his sensitiveness and capacity for feeling and passion not less exquisite than FitzGerald’s own. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The one subject on which his mind was warped and morbid in its sensitiveness was the fear of assassination: and under its influence he would believe almost anything that was told to him. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z The amount of contained moisture exerts a considerable effect on its sensitiveness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Governor.—The governor should receive careful attention so far as its cleanliness is concerned; for if its operation is not easy it is apt to become "lazy" and to lose its sensitiveness. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z The direct method of communicating any movement of the Evener Plates to the cone belt, the multiplication of this movement and the short cones are features which help to secure sensitiveness and prompt action. Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery 2011-12-16T03:00:11.130Z This fine sensitiveness of hers necessitated my having to play the hypocrite forever. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z Dogs have the same sensitiveness that we associate with well-bred men and women. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z True, he has developed in himself such a delicacy and sensitiveness that “nothing human is alien to him.” Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z But in that moment, Mr. Henry Harper, with his new and rather terrible sensitiveness, was beginning to fear that he had committed a solecism. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z “I will consider your sensitiveness in preference to my comfort,” she said. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z In this and other contributions to the Atlantic Miss Humphrey has shown an acute sensitiveness to atmosphere and personality. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z My dear Rodney, I don't wish to comment on your sudden sensitiveness where your uncle is concerned. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z He is a man of culture and good family, and thus exerts a peculiar charm upon young women of refinement and sensitiveness. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The odd thing was that in spite of the nipping atmosphere to which his sensitiveness was exposed, it seemed to grow more acute. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Reaction at Point of Injection: Area of redness, swelling, tenderness; important as indicative of sensitiveness, pointing to probable general reaction with repetition or increase of dose. Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium 2011-11-25T03:00:11.053Z He would emphasize that people who had great nervous burdens to carry, hereditary perhaps, could order their lives fruitfully and perhaps derive some gain from their 'degenerate' sensitiveness, whatever it might be. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z It was as though she knew, by a supernormal sensitiveness, the symptoms of someone else. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Dale diagnosed their symptoms with the sensitiveness born of the equivocal nature of the new relationship in which his confession placed him towards them. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z But a new and growing sensitiveness had come upon him, which somehow made that knowledge hard to bear. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z This was first done by the famous Nobel, who mixed it with a fine earth known as kieselguhr, whereby its sensitiveness was much decreased. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Its success is more or less complete according to the sensitiveness and life energy of the tissue receiving the stimulus and the degree to which the mechanism of inhibition is developed. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z But for the most part, the faces of our handsome women are pre-eminently pagan—bold, sophisticated, clever; without sweetness, softness, imagination, sensitiveness—in a word, without Soul. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z “The sensitiveness of the average police officer when dealing with a harassed and frightened woman left much to be desired,” Ms. Deol wrote in a paper assessing general police conduct in 2005. The Female Factor: An App to Fight Crimes Against Women 2011-11-08T12:30:34Z Mingled with my restlessness there had been a tremulous sensitiveness that had culminated half-an-hour before in a fit of satanic pride. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z James was perfectly right; it is a curious trait of human character, that sensitiveness on the point of capacity for feeling. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Amid all her gettings let the south get complete calmness upon everything connected with the race question—complete deliverance from morbid sensitiveness and intemperate speech in its discussion. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Such women lose, perhaps, every womanly characteristic; refinement of form, mental delicacy and sensitiveness, emotion, subtlety. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Another paper shows painful sensitiveness on the same account; but it does not matter, these things are all transitory. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z We fought desperately, and I was thoroughly "licked"; not, however, before having found out that he had no bump of sensitiveness and none of philoprogenitiveness. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z As he said himself, he never was ruined by sensitiveness, keeping all the wealth of his heart for a good opportunity. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z An ordinary correction of a negro did not cause him as much pain as your child, with his far superior sensitiveness, receives when you give him the rod. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z High sensitiveness of function is necessarily attended by corresponding complexity and delicacy of structure. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z She did not call her sensitiveness morbid; quite on the contrary, she saw to it that it took the form of a pose of gaiety; she could be pitilessly gay with herself. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Know, that as your body is now absolutely without weight, and is suspended in a frictionless medium, the most delicate balance of a chemist can not approach in sensitiveness the adjustment herein exemplified. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z The train of her dress rustled against the leaves of a palm; and the sound gave a sudden jar to the strung cords of her sensitiveness. Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel 2011-10-18T02:00:20.340Z There is extreme sensitiveness about the public discussion of the Jewish Question on the part of Gentiles. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z It is especially worth remarking that the new Catholic conquests exhibit the most sensitiveness on this point. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z It was in the mouth if anywhere that sensitiveness must be looked for. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z He had shown some sensitiveness about that at his trial. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Much depends on the sensitiveness of the fingers of him who palpates, and much upon the relation of the palpated artery to the surrounding, chiefly underlying, structures. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z Gentile sensitiveness on this point is best expressed by the desire for silence—"Why discuss it at all?" is the attitude. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z Still, the pride of the authors must have received some damage; perhaps some sensitiveness on Pope's part is understandable. Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z She could not understand a man who had any sensitiveness at all suffering his mind to be turned over and inspected and thumb-marked by these people in this way. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Many a modern statesman might most profitably copy his sensitiveness. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z I reproached myself with a sensitiveness which seemed ridiculous in a husband, ascribing to her disposition that which was really due to her want of affection for me. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Because of its extreme sensitiveness the telephone requires a complete wire circuit. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z But perhaps Mrs. Pratt's sensitiveness of eye was not the only cause of the rejection of that offending advertisement. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z She was pale, with the anæmic pallor of alabaster, the pallor of our jaded society-girls; and her hands moved feverishly and restlessly, as though the fingers were constantly seeking an object for their butterfly sensitiveness.... The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z If there be less sensitiveness upon the surface of the character, there should be a deeper sentiment within. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z With the growing sensitiveness of the social consciousness, the problem of suffering and of sin presses increasingly, and itself almost compels the assertion of the passibility of God. Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z You had only increased your sensitiveness; you had not secured your satisfaction. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z He is the common spring of sensitiveness and sympathy, who connects each man with his neighbour and makes of thousands a living organic spiritual unity. In Answer to Prayer The Touch of the Unseen 2011-09-23T02:00:24.177Z Knowing your sensitiveness about such matters, the Duke guessed that the murder of Gage, with the circumstances pointing to you as its perpetrator, would smoke you out.” The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Yet I have said that it was not remorse that bred this sensitiveness in me, and I hasten to maintain that. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Her intense sensitiveness, coupled with the knowledge that there would be four strange pairs of male eyes watching her, constituted a serious obstacle. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z It seems to be not only a profound bore to him, but really a sort of sensitiveness on his part. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Nothing is clearer to the reader of the Journal than the rapid increase of this holy or foolish sensitiveness. John Woolman's Journal 2011-09-06T02:00:09.260Z The excessive sensitiveness of every internal organ, strung to the highest pitch by the endurance which worked upon every nerve in his frame, no less affected every sense in Christophe. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z He carried a mind of extreme sensitiveness under that dwarfed figure; and is mad—maybe, sometimes, with destiny, that has crippled him so; and bites that thin lip of his till the blood starts. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z This form of disease may, in one sense, be compared to the loss of the scarf-skin, and a consequent exposure of surfaces for whose excessive sensitiveness, nature has provided a muffling. In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 2011-08-25T02:00:34.247Z The sensitiveness of such a thermal ammeter can be made sufficiently great to detect a current of a few microamperes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Arthur watched the scene with dull, unseeing eyes; and to his morbid sensitiveness it seemed as though London laughed in mockery of his grief. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Yet in his new sensitiveness the realisation had held a flicker of self-shame. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z He states that the sensitiveness of his emotional nature becomes most acute in religious gatherings, and that he has never found himself mistaken when he has followed the leadings of that spirit. Subconscious Religion 2011-08-22T02:00:58.937Z In that sad and gentle smile one felt the subtle skepticism of the man who knows the value of words and dreams; and there also flashed in the smile a lovable modesty and delicate sensitiveness…. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z By the sensitiveness of the 430 galvanometer is meant the deflexion produced by a known electromotive force put upon its terminals or a known current sent through it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Before Wyndham met Valentine they were simply indications of the sensitiveness of a soul which was as keenly strung to pain as to joy. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z Some of our best surgeons have had to leave the first operation that they ever saw or they would have fainted, and yet after repeated effort they have succeeded in overcoming this sensitiveness. Health Through Will Power 2011-08-18T02:00:20.367Z If that be not the case, it only produces a soft swelling, which soon disappears again, only leaving a want of sensitiveness for a few days. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z I can only bear witness that he was a man of rare spiritual nobleness, distinguished and cultivated in the best sense, who combined tenderness and delicacy with complete sincerity, kindness and sensitiveness with complete candour. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Even yet Aymer had not thought of marriage; even yet he had not overcome his constitutional sensitiveness so much as to contemplate such a possibility. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Great abysses of pain were opened up to him—he found himself all sensitiveness, all nerves. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z This perception—this sensitiveness—made him suffer more acutely, but endowed him with the power of detachment, the power to rise above his personal griefs. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z Charlotte Ponsonby is a victim of the Spencer stupidity and of her own timidity and sensitiveness. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z The varying sensitiveness of different varieties of strawberry plants to small and undefinable differences in circumstances is indeed one of the most important facts brought to light in the experiments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Above all it must not be forgotten that the cult of comfort and convenience and what may well be called the habit of luxury in the modern time has greatly increased sensitiveness to pain. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z The ridges so disposed cannot prevent the tail from curling, and they must add materially to its sensitiveness. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z All this is, of course, too personal for quotation, but a perusal of it amply confirms the accounts of her domestic affection, and the warmth and sensitiveness of her heart. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z Her sensitiveness was a-flutter, fearing a cold welcome from her husband’s friends. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z But for me there was one other sound for which I listened into the cool of morning with the quivering sensitiveness of a bruised nerve. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z She remembered, too, his peculiar sensitiveness in this connection, and the injunctions he gave when under the influence of disease and depression. Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. 2011-08-02T02:00:25.157Z “There must be some one who thinks as I do,” she ended resolutely, wishing that she could run from this affront to her sensitiveness. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z Some slight modifications of the bill were conceded to the sensitiveness of those who apprehended encroachment on State jurisdiction; but it passed substantially in the form in which it was reported by Mr. Webster. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z Her grey-blue eyes, under noticeable eyelashes, expressed the same acute sensitiveness as her long, thin, beautifully-shaped hands. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z His sensitiveness of honour shrank from his being a constructive inconvenience to a nation to whom he owed so much and for whom he cared so much. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z We confess that we have not the temerity to wound the sensitiveness of the devoutly religious. Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester 2011-07-22T02:00:20.277Z Then she would get over her sensitiveness, but somehow I can’t seem to manage it.” Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z Believe me, I know woman's nature, with its thousand delicate threads of feeling and consequent excitability and sensitiveness, and I warn you to conceal my image in your inmost soul. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z I inherit certain susceptibilities, weaknesses, sensitivenesses, which render it impossible to adapt myself to the ordinary milieu; I have to make one of my own wherever I go, and never mingle with that already made. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z And, with the morbid sensitiveness peculiar to a tender conscience, he winced under the knowledge that it was he who, through wrongheadedness or wrongheartedness, had contrived to make all the world besides the boy's enemy. The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories 2011-07-19T02:00:22.090Z After what has been achieved, the self-consciousness of women will be lessened, and their sensitiveness about their own position, capacity, and rights will be naturally outgrown. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Frail of physique, with all the scholar's nerves and sensitiveness, he yet day after day ploughed through the hesitating minds of his pupils with patience and thoroughness. Charles Edward Putney An Appreciation 2011-07-18T02:00:24.397Z Hartmann had always shown me so much friendliness and sensitiveness in my interests, and he was, I am sure, as sorrowful as I was about this painful situation. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z "Remember always, that the very sensitiveness of soul which makes a man a poet, makes him also peculiarly and painfully susceptible to wounds of the spirit." Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z "That is nonsense," said Esm�e, with the violence of acute sensitiveness. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z Harsh as it may sound in your ears, take it as from a physician, without any false sensitiveness. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z Suppose, for the moment, that as in Morose of Ben Jonson’s Silent Woman,11 the dramatist is stressing one characteristic, in this instance morbid sensitiveness to noise of any kind. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z His idealism, his poetic sensitiveness to the more imaginative side of life, are perhaps less often insisted upon, but are no less real. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z And so on to the end of a chapter that must have been very bitter reading to the offender if he had been a person of normal sensitiveness, as he was not. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z This quick sensibility is too often called forth, and a morbid sensitiveness is produced which too often takes refuge in recklessness. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z The Admiral’s sensitiveness on the subject ought to have been respected. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z Miss Anglin, trained by years of experience to great sensitiveness to the emotional values of words, has here arranged the sentences better than the author himself. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z It calls rather for sensitiveness of appreciation and powers of judgment. The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics 2011-06-24T02:00:19.850Z Experience here is the only guide, as the light varies as well as the density of the negative and the sensitiveness of the tissue. Photogravure 2011-06-19T02:00:24.663Z If he sits down always during his occupation, he will need exercise and air or he will suffer from many vague discomforts, over sensitiveness and irritability of nerves, as well as from physical conditions. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Such is the sensitiveness of the instrument, that the smallest cloud passing over it checks the rise of the liquid. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z Can it then be God's intention that the growth of our spiritual life is only growing sensitiveness to pain? Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Home politics were generally paramount, and each new governor was always obliged to consider the sensitiveness of his Government to the amount of expenditure allowed. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z The tissue is in the best condition for three days after sensitizing; it can be used up to seven days; it gradually increases in sensitiveness from day to day. Photogravure 2011-06-19T02:00:24.663Z Not infrequently anesthesia or a decided lack of sensitiveness to irritation will be found in the throat or in the nose. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Their sensitiveness is consequently increased in an equal proportion, and they have the additional advantage of not being affected by differences of level in the cistern. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z What has moved you to this sensitiveness—and with me? Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Helen drew away, her peculiar sensitiveness conscious of the old barrier. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z I was greatly pained, but not altogether from jealousy or sensitiveness. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z This is much more a question of personal sensitiveness and anxious expectancy and over-irritability than anything else. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Pride and sensitiveness apart, we can imagine that a full understanding was not easy between them. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z They have risen in the power of sensitiveness above the plane of receptive response to the swaying currents of the earth, and begin to send out currents of their own. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Our grave chronicler, arrayed in his civic dignities, seems to have provoked the sensitiveness of the poetical critic in Warton, and the caustic wit in Horace Walpole. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Its range of sensitiveness and its adaptability to the extreme variety of demands upon it are truly marvelous when compared with instruments devised by mankind. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z No floating kidney should be operated upon in a patient who has lost much in weight and has developed a sensitiveness of the kidney since the reduction of weight. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z And this perfume of another world, whereof I intoxicated myself with a so perfected sensitiveness; alas, its place is taken by an odour of stale tobacco smoke, mingled with I know not what nauseating mustiness. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Yet he was guiltless of imitation, and the resemblance exists because he had the same fine humour and the same sensitiveness of perception as the earlier writer. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z In this impassioned existence, excited by the acrimony of politics, and the enthusiasm of study, he fell into reckless dissipation, and undermined a constitution which, probably, had all the delicacy and sensitiveness of his genius. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z She had such a tender and gentle spirit; with the moral sensitiveness of generations of Puritans so exquisitely keen in her, that a comparatively small wrong would give her great pain. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z It is not surprising that, owing to this, sensitiveness occurs and some spasm develops. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z It was a studied policy of the Turks to play upon our sensitiveness to indecency. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z In the latter Lytton showed again his extraordinary sensitiveness. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z No smallest ache or ailing of ours but our mother's sensitiveness shared. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z In his criticism of my own work, he seldom used more than suggestion, realizing, no doubt, the sensitiveness of the tyro in poetry. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z This sensitiveness of the ends of the fingers may become so marked as to prevent these usual occupations, or at least may require their limitation. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Now it was the quivering sensitiveness of her mouth, an unsuspected archness, the astonishing range of feeling revealed by her large dark eyes. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z The keen sensitiveness to the right character of the form, to which his pencil outline was the limit, influenced the quality of his touch as he portrayed that limit. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z To these, such qualities would seem to deny the existence of any sensitiveness, any spontaneity in his art. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z Odd that we should have such views of each other's sensitiveness. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z This interferes with the nutrition of nerves and leads to nerve sensitiveness from lack of nutrition, or actual nerve irritation from pressure upon sensitive nerve endings while in a state of congestion. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z There was sense, dignity, refinement, sensitiveness, and frankness; and the gazer almost forgot what he wanted to do, in the pleasure of looking. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z Let chivalry be forgotten, let sensitiveness be violated, let money intrude into the domain of love, and the spell is broken. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z The sensitiveness of which the Americans are accused is quite equalled in that which is displayed in the London criticisms of Monsieur Wey. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z Man's mundane salvation therefore depends upon the ministrations of art and his own artistic sensitiveness. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Patients should, as far as possible, be lifted out of this condition of over-delicate sensitiveness and put into a state where the idea of pain is not so serious. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z He noticed what a good face it was, full of intelligence and latent power, and present sensitiveness; and furthermore, a rare thing anywhere, how free from self-consciousness. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z And I dare say this sensitiveness has made me cowardly. Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z The interest of this Society, therefore, lies not so much in the fields of economic production as in the less definite regions of historic appreciation and artistic sensitiveness to surroundings. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z The Grand Duke listened with anxious disgust; he obviously feared the effect of each succeeding word on his sensitiveness. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z It seems evident, therefore, that the discomfort must result from the sensitiveness of the individual emphasizing the significance of some slight disturbance. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Truly, a girl of this sort, brimfull of mental capacity and emotional sensitiveness, was a troublesome legacy for a young man situated as he was. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z Be careful of an exaggerated sensitiveness on your part. Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration 2011-05-02T02:00:20.220Z The sensitiveness of the ear to vasomotor changes is evident by the results of the extremes in heat and cold, emotional blushing and fatigue. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z More imagination is called for, and greater impressionability and sensitiveness, because there is no interlocutor there for the audience to see. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The sensitiveness of his ear for bird-music is wonderfully illustrated in his story of a new song which he heard on Slide Mountain in the Catskills. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z "A want of sensitiveness in their optic nerve," he said smiling. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z San Francisco is notoriously sensitive upon this subject, and her sensitiveness is not difficult to understand. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z But the invalid child, with the sensitiveness of invalid children, refused to look at the puppy, who was returned to his donor, and constituted himself henceforth the tyrant and terror of that scholastic household. Loveliness A Story 2011-04-27T02:00:23.450Z Olive began, but it was difficult for Mildred to follow the long rambling confession; with all her love for truth, Olive's morbid sensitiveness tinged most things with exaggeration. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Death is, of course, not deferred through our sensitiveness on the subject, and when it occurs we are always deeply affected, as if our expectations had been shattered. Reflections on War and Death 2011-04-17T02:00:03.777Z The duty of cultivating sensitiveness to impressions is hard to reconcile with high and pure devotion. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The standard in Germany for sensitiveness of ammonium nitrate explosives. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z In other words, concentration is another name for sensitiveness. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The fault of Norwegians in that day was their deadly seriousness, and their excessive sensitiveness to the slightest indication of criticism. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Though football is the chief interest at New Haven, Yale men often display a surprising sensitiveness to attacks on the scholarship of their local archaeologists. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z There would be difficulties; any amount of pride must be overcome—shrinking sensitiveness subdued—but he would try! Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z What a sensitiveness people exhibit about going abroad with a smudge on the face; but, alas! there is little sensitiveness regarding a smudge on one's voice. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z Really psychometry, depending on the sensitiveness of the brain, is a lower degree of clairvoyance, and is merged, in its clearest forms, therein. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Suffering, mental and physical, keyed his nerves to exquisite sensitiveness; a passionate desire for darkness and silence possessed him. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z The photographer must not only "smell out" news; but he must, by the sensitiveness of his "nose" tell just how much the news is capable of being worked up. Making Your Camera Pay 2011-03-31T02:00:21.163Z Their protest was not evidence of sedition but a well developed sensitiveness against the danger of over-government. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z He was collected enough, though the blood was rather cool in his veins, and there was an odd sensitiveness at the roots of his hair. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z Somnambulism, clairvoyance, and that state of exquisite sensitiveness which makes us receptive of impressions transformed into dreams, may be commanded in a sensitive, and observed at leisure. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The sole gain, as Napier saw it, out of a rather ridiculous encounter was to establish the fact of the girl's sensitiveness for Julian's dignity. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z "Except the morbid sensitiveness to which I have already alluded, and its very insufficient cause, I declare that I know of none." The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion 2011-03-23T02:00:21.287Z He was not an imaginative man nor observant, but the upper regions were his sphere, and he had all the acute sensitiveness incident to being out of one's element. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z It was kind of course, but provoking nevertheless, as to Helen's sensitiveness it seemed to convey a tacit reproach. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z The senses would lead us away to a gross materialism, for they belong to the animal organization; this sensitiveness leads us in an opposite direction. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z She could acquire through sensitiveness, knowledge he could manifest, but could never gain originally. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z "Yes, because the burden of dancing the cotillon with me devolves upon you," Stella replies, betraying, for the first time since he has known her, a degree of sensitiveness that is almost ridiculous. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z He would remember her weaker nature, and her more delicate physical frame, her more acute nervous sensibility, her greater sensitiveness and greater trials, the peculiar troubles to which she is subject. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Draw your reins gently to an equal length, and ascertain the precise bearing on your horse’s mouth that seems, while he is yet in a walk, to influence his action without offending his sensitiveness. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z This sensitiveness may be exceedingly acute, and the individual unconscious of it, and then it is known as genius, which is acute susceptibility to the waves of the psychic atmosphere. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Goswyn asked, with the unfortunate persistence in pursuing a disagreeable subject often shown by strong men who would fain establish their lack of sensitiveness. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z The unevenness in Rubinstein's playing I believe to have been wholly due to the temperamental moods of a man of extreme artistic sensitiveness. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z When he found that he had “clasped a shadow,” his anguish, owing to his great sensitiveness, was extreme. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Notwithstanding its extraordinary sensitiveness, the organs of the senses in the Actinia are very inferior, consisting only of a few pigment cells accumulated at the base of the tentacles. Seaside Studies in Natural History Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. 2011-03-07T03:00:13.343Z I tested her sensitiveness and found that her mind responded. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Her sad, dreary youth has left its shadow on her soul, and has exaggerated in her a perilous inborn sensitiveness. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Extreme sensitiveness is a r�le sometimes assumed by men in no wise remarkable, in order to enhance their own importance in the eyes of others. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z He was indescribably pleased at her unvanquishable maidenly sensitiveness. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z But there is a spirit of contrariety—a product of pride, of a sensitiveness almost morbid, of a reserve gliding into duplicity, a duplicity without calculation—which yet operates like design. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z His sensitiveness could only be made valuable by isolation, and that came to him in an unlooked for manner by his incarceration in jail. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z He had often had occasion to notice the sensitiveness of her moral nature, but to-day the key to the riddle was lacking. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Schindler's attitude as to the undesirability of orchestral pianoforte arrangements will meet with the approval of many, but he certainly carried his sensitiveness in regard to the interpretation of Beethoven's works to amusing extremes. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z The sensitiveness of people with a tendency towards corpulency is also at times provocative of trouble. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z And yet one forgets sensitiveness when it comes to anything really national. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The double presence which has so perplexed the student of these mysteries thus admits of solution, and becomes a part of the fabric created by sensitiveness to thought impressions. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z It is true, ridiculous sensitiveness, as I now see, has been the true cause of my foolish, unjustifiable behaviour, but it has not been the sensitiveness of a rejected suitor. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z If we turn to the plays of Shakespeare, we shall find that in them too the same morbid sensitiveness to all associations with mortality is continually breaking out. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z There has been, and still is, an extreme sensitiveness in the minds of intelligent men on this subject. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Formerly, he had taken such things quite philosophically, but his sensitiveness had increased in recent times. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z The prompting as to the course to steer is beyond and outside of the dream, and proves the extreme sensitiveness of the commander. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The mouth was tender and girlish, its sensitiveness scarcely seeming fitting in a child of these wild places. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z They have more spiritual alertness than their fathers though less vigour, more sensitiveness to passing moods though less robustness, greater mastery of technique though less genius for principles. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z He was a disciple of Lydgate rather than of Chaucer, and is not only lacking in the vigour and sensitiveness which Lydgate sometimes displays, but exaggerates the defects of his master. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The wounds which the tormenting martyrdom of his childhood had torn in his heart had never quite healed; therefore he showed a sensitiveness and irritability which even the most sympathetic person could scarcely comprehend. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z Night favors sensitiveness because of its negative influence. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z She had been taught what was honest and truthful; she was far away for ever from the old life; but the fine feelings—the sensitiveness to the minuti� of goodness—were wanting just then. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z Often it seems almost unbearable, calling out such an acuteness of sensation, such a vivid, leaping sensitiveness of feeling, that indeed it is like pain. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z His work expresses the rapid civilization of his time, its humanitarian feeling and growing sensitiveness to natural beauty, home comfort, the claims of animals and the charms of light literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Ecstasy must first have intensified the sensitiveness of the whole mechanism; until this takes place art is not realized. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Disease, by weakening the physical powers, is often conducive to a wonderful sensitiveness. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z They have yet to learn the sensitiveness of the movements of their divinity—how prone she is to follow the current of trade to its points of receipt and delivery. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z Or is it only my unfortunate sensitiveness to smell? Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z He has an exaggerated sensitiveness to pain, upon which also the advertisement relies. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z The public cannot appreciate the prose poetry of Hearn because of his rich language and aesthetic sensitiveness. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Many of the facts given in illustration of other phases of sensitiveness apply equally well here. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Exquisite sensitiveness to beauties of line and form, combined with loving observation of nature, distinguishes the drawing. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z Her father's debts had ever been a sore subject, and, although it was now many years since they had been recalled to her memory by mention, her sensitiveness had not lessened in the least. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Leonie, indeed, did not say a word, but the mantling color that mounted to her cheeks betrayed her exceeding sensitiveness to anything that reminded her of her former lover. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z There is a great deal of literature or poetry which presupposes some culture, and a sensitiveness to beauty, and especially a highly developed intellect. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z As it advances in this sensitiveness, distance becomes a less and less factor, until eliminated, and a thought sent forth wings its way until it meets the one for whom it was intended. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z These show the artist as a master of technique, gifted with a peculiar sensitiveness to value relations and an unusual color sense. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z Her sensitiveness to criticism was extreme; a flippant paragraph or an illiterate review with regard to her work actually affected her for days. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z I had had disagreements with the chief of the bureau, believed myself slighted and overlooked, hence rashly broke my supposed chains, in a fit of sensitiveness. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z It was the theme, of all others, in which her sensitiveness was extreme; nor could he exactly say whether she sneered at a m�salliance, or at the insolent tone of society regarding it. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Not that this can take the place of the ordinary training of the faculties, for their training, rudely performed as it is, often leads to a high sensitiveness; more often leads away from it. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The woman's figure is painted much in the style of Bouguereau, but there is a deeper sincerity in her face, her mouth betraying the neurotic sensitiveness not uncommon among religious mystics. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z I endeavored not to show any sensitiveness to this impertinence, and went on with my dinner, the stranger's table being quite close to mine. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z Queer how a man shuns being made ridiculous, but after all it is only natural, especially if one is inclined to sensitiveness. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z And so, in moments of great sensitiveness and anxiety, legal spokes are apt to be suddenly thrust into the wheels of credit, and the whole machinery of business brought crunching to a standstill. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z The nervous system, in its two-fold relation to the physical and spiritual being, is inconceivably more finely organized than the most perfect musical instrument, and is possessed of finer sensitiveness. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z There is a particular angle of tilt of the case which gives a maximum sensitiveness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z This was a subject over which Willy did not fall asleep, and his mother congratulated herself secretly upon this splendid daughter-in-law, who showed no inconvenient sensitiveness. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z I attributed his melancholy to an honourable, but excessive sensitiveness, and tried several times to console him; but he put me at a distance by affecting a supreme indifference towards his unhappy partner. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z You need have no sensitiveness in the matter; you are going to the university, and will only pass your vacations at Villica. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z Thus where the laws and conditions of impressibility are understood, it is not anomalous that so few are impressed, but this fact confirms the theory of sensitiveness. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z By using a quartz fibre of about half the above diameter the sensitiveness was much increased. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z An utter incomprehension of certain delicacies, a lack of sensitiveness, is peculiar to them. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Nor was this the cowardice of selfishness, but the infinite sensitiveness of his soul. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Doctor Fabian, knowing the extreme sensitiveness of his pupil, gazed at him in alarm. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z It thus becomes apparent that there can be an education superior to all others; the education of receptivity, or sensitiveness to the thought atmosphere or psychic-ether. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The sensitiveness of the coherer depends on the electromotive force put in the galvanometer circuit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z It is rather acute sensitiveness, timorous even to concealment. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z She was left, in her abnormal sensitiveness, to measure his disappointment and mortification by his very silence. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Another phase of the archaic nature of children is their extreme sensitiveness to impressions. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Is it not a condition of exceeding sensitiveness to ideas related to the dominating? Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z He was moved to this by the extreme sensitiveness of the man; indeed, a veiled pity prompted him to take notice of the only creature on the ship who seemed to be without an acquaintance. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z The old teamster had been watching incredulity settle on the face of Dwight Wade, and this heresy in one to whom his affections had attached touched his sensitiveness. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z "My cousin isn't very well, or at least she hasn't been," Jean announced, remembering Jack's sensitiveness. The Ranch Girls in Europe 2011-01-13T03:01:01.483Z In his awkward misery, the man's raw sensitiveness suffered to exaggeration. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z There is a sensitiveness of organization, and not of culture, which makes of the possessor a mouth-piece, an instrument, such as it is. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Toward the close of March the populace displayed a perilous sensitiveness to all these influences. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z There are great individual variations in responsiveness and sensitiveness to social pressure. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z She should have known that it was her inner development, her sensitiveness which had made her so potent an attraction for Bellingham. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z And it was as if the too-great sensitiveness of the ever-vibrant strings had hardened in the robust young years of manliness; the god had stood before him so sharply defined: yonder!... Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z There is a sensitiveness, better here called receptivity, which comes of right culture, and is the highest form of mediumship, though its possessor may be wholly unconscious of his gift. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z If poetry consists in a certain sensitiveness of soul and reaction to slight and cautious stimulation, and not in an active, wild, subduing force, Verlaine certainly has sensed the deepest fount of the orphic mysteries. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z This is an extreme sensitiveness to psychological phenomena, expressed in terms of singular delicacy and beauty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z I see a wonderful sensitiveness in all that you write—that's why I suggest especially that you should never forget fine food and plentiful exercise. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Fox was never more than human, and if he was always less majestic than Burke, his sensitiveness was far more acute. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Magnetism, Mesmerism, Hypnotism, or the states of healing by Faith or Christian Science are but the temporary approaches to that one condition of sensitiveness. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z To understand this, sensitiveness must not be confused with sentimentality. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z Was this on account of the superior sensitiveness of his nature, or because he shrunk with a proud man's shame from the publicity entailed upon the anomalous articles which were drawn from his inner pockets? One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z I have not found reason to care much for hard names in the course of the last thirty years, and I am too old to develop a new sensitiveness. Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions 2010-12-20T17:12:31.233Z You took my side on the harbour question too warmly not to come into collision with the Count, whose sensitiveness on this point is unfortunately only too easy to understand. The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. I. 2010-12-20T17:12:22.067Z It really is a state of sensitiveness to harmonious sounds, which at its best differs little from the most exalted form of clairvoyance, or, perhaps better, clair-audience. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z As a consequence of its presence, sounds are not naturally conveyed, and the sensitiveness of the nerve of hearing is gradually impaired. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers With some insight into books and a developing 225 mind came a keener sensitiveness, and what people thought of her and how they felt toward her became of more consequence. The Girl From Tim's Place There was, too, in Descartes' day a growing sensitiveness to the paradoxes of man's experience which have occupied so much of our attention. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Indeed, an extreme degree of sensitiveness has been ascribed to the glacier as regards the changes of temperature by which the capillaries are affected. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. A sensitiveness wholly novel to his nature held him back, but a moment more and he was walking beside her. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame It was not indifference toward the musical world, but rather a lack of sensitiveness, which barred her way to the heart of it. A Divided Heart and Other Stories The sensitiveness of a cell is the ratio between its resistance in the dark and its resistance when illuminated. Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 Such sensitiveness to the presence of a poisonous agency is by no means uncommon. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician Some mechanics never become proficient in the art of calipering because their hands are “heavy” and they lack the sensitiveness and delicacy of touch that is necessary. Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. The suit of black, which his frail figure seemed to shrink away from with very sensitiveness, was glossy and pathetic with more than one covert patch. Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame But the sensitiveness of Mimosa is crude by comparison with that of the seedling. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History The inertia of a cell is practically unaffected by the wavelength of the light used, but the maximum sensitiveness of a cell is towards the yellow-orange portion of the spectrum. Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 This fear and sensitiveness they showed in many ways. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days Eleanor was not emotional, or rather she expressed her emotion by a heightened intellectual sensitiveness. Manslaughter Poor Caroline, who had not been aware of the captain's weak point, hastened to apologize, concluded her purchase, and was careful in future to respect the captain's sensitiveness on the subject of cheap goods. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 I do not think that it is an exaggeration to say, that this result is a picturesque illustration of the distribution of gravitational sensitiveness in plants. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History They have a national pride, approaching even to sensitiveness; they have firm and free religious faiths; life is energetic and manifests itself abundantly every where. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 What most people would call justifiable sensitiveness, Francis would call sin. Brother Francis Less than the least Imagine how anyone—you or I would feel if we had killed a man, and then add a young woman's natural sensitiveness and pity. Manslaughter And in proportion as his powers of imagination and observation increase, so in equal measure must his sensitiveness and the exercise of that power of will which is indispensable for all moral activity diminish. The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski The fact that the tertiary roots have no specialised sensitiveness of gravitation shows that their unregulated growth is good enough for the necessities of the case. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History To do him justice, he worked hard, and he had a tremendous facility and a certain charm that concealed his lack of true artistic sensitiveness. Beggars on Horseback Then acute sensitiveness returned again—he felt the whole series of emotions over and over without one omission. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath This is due to the extreme sensitiveness of the micell�, which absorb or abandon their extra molecules under the slightest influence. The Mechanism of Life We would not, however, disturb the sensitiveness of the little monk by arguing the matter, and indeed, it would have been difficult to lower his self-complacency. Glories of Spain M. Anatole France shows in some ways a sympathy with dogs, and a sensitiveness to their mental attitudes, finer and more true than anything in Stevenson’s essay. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History His sight is struck with the same excess of sensitiveness as his hearing was; he is a dead man! The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 This numbness and sensitiveness alternated with a kind of rhythmic succession.… The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath It showed, he thought, an exquisite sensitiveness, and he was grateful for it. Sinister Street, vol. 2 He was seized with one of his fits of shy sensitiveness, and he became suddenly so deeply embarrassed that he could scarcely even bring himself to address his mother as 'you.' Sinister Street, vol. 1 The pine and the seedling have, in fact, a wonderful kind of sensitiveness—a sensitiveness to the force of gravity. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Before he was twelve, an illness of long continuance coming upon him, youthful intelligence and spiritual sensitiveness were developed in him untroubled by temptations more liable in physical vigor. William Bradford of Plymouth Leaf-stalks and tendrils are adapted to their uses in climbing by a similar sensitiveness. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools Where was Maurice's sensitiveness that it could not react to his unexpressed hatred of the idea of living with him? Sinister Street, vol. 2 He began to feel with a secret sensitiveness contrasts of clothes and manners. The Tempering But the latter, contrary to his expectation, remained firm in his refusal, and as he pleaded the sensitiveness of his chest, Edwin was compelled to desist from urging him. The Children of the World We meet many instances of Dickens’ sensitiveness to the character of his audience. Springtime and Other Essays They do not themselves move when touched, but they propagate the sensitiveness to the organ itself, causing it to close with a quick movement. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools These trials of personality were conducted with all the help that sensitiveness could render him. Sinister Street, vol. 2 When Boone went reluctantly to dine at Colonel Wallifarro's home he felt himself a barbarian among cultivated people—though that feeling sprang entirely from the new sensitiveness. The Tempering Is it because we are losing our sensitiveness—becoming brutalised? The Great Discovery But as this had taken place more than three years before, and as sensitiveness was a virtue little practised at that time, this unduly protracted mourning was interpreted just as people cared to interpret it. Marguerite de Valois He is not a child now; he has the pride and the sensitiveness of a man. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales To be sure, his sensitiveness made him sharp-tongued, and he dressed rather too well. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Treat him kindly, and have forbearance with his sensitiveness. The Progressionists, and Angela. It may be said that a certain degree of timidity is necessary in every balanced character in order to ensure reflection, for natural courage, unaided by sensitiveness, would render it rash. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 He had the sensitiveness and the superstition of youth. Marguerite de Valois He had travelled a great deal, and he had seen the world through a prism of mingled humor and sensitiveness, which gave his conversation the charm of a very original viewpoint on everything. Nancy of Paradise Cottage But Chinese sensitiveness to public sentiment is so extreme, that such settlements for a mere transfer of cash must be comparatively rare. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology He thought he had perhaps awkwardly wounded her sensitiveness. The Progressionists, and Angela. The sensitiveness of authors—were it not such a sore subject—might admit of some curious reflections. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. In many instances a marked dislike to certain kinds of food has been observed, and the sensitiveness of some plants is shown in the foliage, bloom, and even in the roots. The Speech of Monkeys The capacity which makes the size that has that meaning have that meaning, that is what has the sensitiveness which does not make anticipation, there is reality. Geography and Plays But in a naturalist and in a writer with so much of the Vagabond about him as Thoreau this sensitiveness about self-culture, this anxiety to eliminate all the temperamental tares, is blameworthy. The Vagabond in Literature He had been wrecked a number of times and maybe that had broken his nerve or maybe he had a sensitiveness that would in another class have given him taste & culture. Reveries over Childhood and Youth It seems really to have only been during the last decade of his life that he allowed irritability and sensitiveness to interfere between him and his best friends. Lafcadio Hearn What I mean is, that long confinement to the sickroom and careful nursing are apt to produce, in the invalid, a certain sensitiveness and an almost imperceptible change in manner. On the Heights A Novel I understand now the prison pallor; I understand the sensitiveness of this prison audience; I understand the high nervous tension which makes anything possible. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York The tenderness of the Buddhist towards the lower creation is not due to sentimentalism, nor is it necessarily a sign of sensitiveness of feeling. The Vagabond in Literature There is always more or less feverishness and discomfort, and frequently an extreme sensitiveness to cold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" It may have pluck, spirit, refinement, sensitiveness, and, in fact, to the casual observer, every quality requisite to success; but somehow invariably at the very crisis it gives way. First Fam'lies of the Sierras If there is anything for which I may claim credit, it is that I do not indulge my sensitiveness. On the Heights A Novel If he were severe now, she would surely come to see the absurdity of these religious fears, this heart-searching and morbid sensitiveness. Plashers Mead A Novel Her extreme sensitiveness no doubt originated in the unkind comments made upon her in her childhood. Fragments of an Autobiography It's all very well for you to laugh, Margaret; you have no sensitiveness. East Angels As a statesman his career was marred by extreme sensitiveness; but he was beloved as a man of worth and admired as a man of culture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" But, in all things, she obeyed the highest law of the courtier; that is, to repress all personal feeling and thus avoid all sensitiveness. On the Heights A Novel It gives great sensitiveness to gelatine and collodion emulsions—combined with pyro for a developer it prevents fog—and is employed in the preparation of sensitive papers. Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 It may be undue sensitiveness on my part, but I feel rather oppressed with a sense of responsibility. Windyridge The extra work was hard enough in itself to cause his anger to rise and to create sensitiveness and surliness on the part of his men, but it was only one factor of his discontent. The Orphan Lenz, notwithstanding his sensitiveness, has a sound practical nature, though limited to a small circle of ideas. Edelweiss A Story He will shun his fellows, because of his sensitiveness upon one point. A Modern Wizard We knew his sensitiveness, and took delight in sitting directly behind him at the piano, though he would urge, beg, and finally command us to sit beside him. Confessions of an Opera Singer The advantage of this method is that all the conditions are steady, so that the observations can be pushed to the limit of accuracy and sensitiveness of the apparatus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Go, now; and leave the house free to Sir Murray Gernon to come and go untouched in his sensitiveness. The Sapphire Cross You would hardly believe what a morbid sensitiveness our people have contracted by their constant and close confinement at their work. Edelweiss A Story Her former timidity was the à priori proof of the strength of the feeling that followed, when the sensitiveness of fear gave way to confidence. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative His growing deafness and his acute sensitiveness must have made life impossible for him. Confessions of an Opera Singer Fairfax, his head thrown back, smoked thoughtfully, and Rainsford noted the youthfulness of the line of his neck and face, the high idealism of the brow, the beautiful mouth, the breeding and the sensitiveness there. Fairfax and His Pride The singular daring, ardent sensitiveness, and popular ambition, which made him dangerous in a private station, might then have found their nobler employment, and been purified in the broad and lofty region of ministerial duty. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 He has my unhappy sensitiveness; drive it out of him, make him strong and self-reliant. Edelweiss A Story In "Richard III." ambition is the ruling passion, treated in the same realistic fashion, conjoined with the extreme sensitiveness of personal deformity to strictures on itself. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. I think that I must have had by nature an especial sensitiveness to language, as the following trifling narration will show. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 She took a few stitches, the colour high in her face, and with a rare sensitiveness understood that she must not let Antony see her sacrifice, that she must not put her responsibility on Fairfax. Fairfax and His Pride L'Estrange smiled faintly: the line in the Colonel's letter, in which he spoke of his son's sensitiveness, occurred to him at once. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly On the other hand, those who have not served in the army will feel some natural sensitiveness about playing soldier in presence of veterans, and being satirized, perhaps, as a mere home-guard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 "Oh, that is only your sensitiveness," said her uncle soothingly. Gertrude's Marriage Then David reached up and gently lifted the atom of manhood, of pride, sensitiveness, and affection, over where he caused him to snuggle down in the fodder close to his side. The Mountain Girl The aunt was dead; but even the loss of a loved relative didn't account to my mind for this girl's sensitiveness about the past. The Brightener The age of the woman may also be determined with considerable accuracy by her manner of dress, for a Japanese woman has no sensitiveness on this score. Oriental Women The great advantage of this method consists in the high sensitiveness of the bichromatized albumen, at the same time preserving the solid reserve produced by the bitumen of Judæa on a metallic surface. Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades But stung into sensitiveness by Ted's taunt about her queerness, she kept her discovery of Other-Sheila to herself. The Torch Bearer The most perfect sensitiveness cannot equal the contractibility of these suckers; always proportioned to the internal movement of the animal, and its exterior circumstances. Toilers of the Sea Much beauty of form, a delightful sensitiveness to nature, a luxuriance of color, and a finely tempered thoughtfulness pervade the poems. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The age of the woman may aiso be determined with considerable accuracy by her manner of dress, for a Japanese woman has no sensitiveness on this score. Oriental Women The good condition of a dog's nose is far from being an immaterial part of his conditioning, for on the preservation of its sensitiveness chiefly depends your hope of sport. The Dog That sensitiveness of 'is 'as made more than one widow. Adventures of Bindle The average person, little realizes the danger of brooding over slights, injuries, disappointments, or misfortunes, or of an unnatural attitude towards his fellowmen, shown by unusual sensitiveness or marked suspicion. American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick Cancer children are hard to manage on account of their extreme sensitiveness. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 Women are constantly the dupes, or else the victims, of their extreme sensitiveness. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The appearance ought to suggest the secluded situation to which the part is by nature assigned, and the sensitiveness with which it is endued. The Dog If she is ever a mother, she will learn that it is the parent's love alone that endures in all its sensitiveness. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 The diseases of negroes, and their extreme sensitiveness to low temperatures, sustain this view. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. A remarkable occurrence, illustrative of this sensitiveness, took place on his return from his last Austrian campaign. Josephine Makers of History An oppressive feeling of want was combined with offended pride, necessity and jealousy raged together against his sensitiveness, hunger drove him out upon the wide world, revenge and passion held him fast. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Can we trust the sensitiveness and conscience of every experimenter? Vivisection But Francesco, moved by sensitiveness and anger, and by his desire to avenge himself, resolved that he would at all costs return to Rome in a few days. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero But one of the discoveries of democracy is the wide distribution of this sensitiveness. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance “Yes, they become accustomed to the pressure because the nerves lose their sensitiveness and 52 no longer report their discomfort to the brain; but the injury continues, nevertheless.” Almost a Woman Those who have not a dog cannot conceive the sensitiveness of the spot in their master’s heart reserved for them. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 We are told that there is no need of any public sensitiveness on this subject. Vivisection Yet you yourself, Ottmar, with all your sensitiveness to this kind of behaviour in others, often lay yourself open to be accused of very distinct eccentricity. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. Under his rollicking abandon and recklessness we are made to feel the real sense and sensitiveness, and the worldly wisdom of a youth whose only language is that of a street-gamin. Checkers A Hard-luck Story “A sensitiveness, a warmth,” she said, half aloud. The House of Fulfilment Psychical processes play a certain part in the functions of protoplasm in the form of qualitative and quantitative sensitiveness. Naturalism And Religion The films were specially treated to increase their sensitiveness to red. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Seldom do we meet sensitiveness of conscience or discriminating reflection as the indigenous growth of a very vigorous physical development. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine A subtle sensitiveness could have construed this to embrace a query, a request and a regret. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch There are in every family-circle individuals whom a certain sensitiveness of nature inclines to quietness and reserve; and there are very well-meaning families where no such quietness or reserve is possible. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 Honor thought she could understand his deep sensitiveness of criticism and questions—he was so unlike all the other men she knew—and consented. Banked Fires Owing to this stipulation and the sensitiveness of the Porte in regard to its jurisdiction over its own subjects, irregular Protections were discontinued in Turkey. Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question The evil spirit in boy or man cannot bear the "touch of celestial temper;" and the sensitiveness to eyebeams is one of the earliest signs of conscious, inward guilt. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Photographic plates can be made of more or less sensitiveness for use with different illuminations; but the retina automatically alters its sensitivity to fit the illumination to which it is exposed. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life My experience after my mother's transition, the development of my mediumship, and my increased sensitiveness to the presence of spiritual entities, no doubt aided me greatly. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century His theological sensitiveness appears in his refusal of a preferment offered to him in 1635 by Sir Thomas Coventry, lord keeper of the great seal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" They are a part of the man—a man full of imagination and sensitiveness, a philosopher, a humorist, a hater of shams and pretension. A Year in the Fields So Coleridge sums up his childhood with its delicacy, its sensitiveness, and passion. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The ear begins to lose sensitiveness as early as the age of thirty, and this loss is most noticeable at the upper limit, which declines slowly from this age on. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Gradually, I learned that the immovable exterior was the natural protection against an abnormal sensitiveness both to praise and blame. Threads of Grey and Gold His sensitiveness was exhibited in another way,—mortification if an accident befell him. Upon The Tree-Tops In some cases his sensitiveness was more disturbing than gratifying. A Year in the Fields I am aware of the sensitiveness of the religious public on this subject, and of the difficulties which attend the performance. Noah Webster American Men of Letters But he was poor to the point of destitution, and the mental strain upon him was great, with his extraordinary pride and sensitiveness. Home Life of Great Authors His hair was soft, and his skin, although dark, suffered from extreme sensitiveness. Threads of Grey and Gold It was not want of sensitiveness, she was sure of that: he was by no means obtuse: it was simply that his large, strong nature rose above the pettiness of resentment and complaint. Brooke's Daughter A Novel He shared their nature; and he used all that he had of sensitiveness and of imaginative and creative power, in bringing out its manifold aspects, and sometimes contradictory feelings and aims. Spenser Perhaps the elder man had observed Mr. Heron's sensitiveness more closely and clearly than Heron fancied, and was talking on only to give him time to recover his composure. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 In short, he united a royal aggressiveness shaped and guided entirely by his Christian principles, and a tenderness and sensitiveness such as are rarely found in so strong and fearless a man. Home Life of Great Authors His retired effeminate life increased the natural timidity of his character, his sensitiveness became weakness, and his gloomy nature secretive. The Grandee Museums are for them cemeteries of art; to admire an old picture is to pour our sensitiveness into a funeral urn, instead of casting it forward in violent gushes of creation and action. Ivory Apes and Peacocks She felt him grow rigid at the contact, and saw his face betray his sensitiveness to her touch. Coquette Her sympathies were narrowed by her sensitiveness to anything that fell below her own standard of taste. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge Not even your shrinking sensitiveness could find fault with the first look of one of them if they had panned out right. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) Search your own nature—look into your pride, your sensitiveness to neglect and censure, your high sense of personal dignity. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. This encouragement at once inflamed the sensitiveness of the manufacturer to new self-consciousness. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 It was connected with some minute sensitiveness of feeling towards that class, not perceptible by any other. When Ghost Meets Ghost It does not so much arise from sensitiveness of the parts touched, as from awkwardness in introducing the mirror. The Mechanism of the Human Voice As a result of his sensitiveness he has a strong tendency to make the mistake of regarding political differences of Page 63 opinion as personal antipathy. My Three Years in America It was this new-born sensitiveness that brought to so sudden a close the attempted apprenticeship of the British West Indies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Upon this point he displayed a remarkable and creditable sensitiveness. 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