单词 | spaciousness |
例句 | Five of us moved into apartment 4S, and Mama was thrilled with the spaciousness of the arrangements. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It was this spaciousness–this resounding, unexpected roominess–that had Rutherford scratching his head in 1910. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They blend with the real-world sounds of traffic on the street below, building construction, sirens and, nearby, ringing cellphones, creating a subtly expansive feeling of spaciousness. Art Review: Pondering Sculpture Under the Trees 2010-08-26T20:00:00Z Lines is six minutes of dub spaciousness suggestive of isolation and emotional vacancy - all the modern syndromes. New band of the day (The Hics 1,554) 2013-07-16T14:55:34Z There seems a tellingly narrowed spectrum of discussion afoot, contrary to the spaciousness of mind that meditation typically aims to produce. Abusing the Buddha: How the U.S. Army and Google co-opt mindfulness 2014-03-17T06:59:00Z It was the manner of the spread that was charming and chancy, the way Twombly's blurts coexisted with a broad, bright spaciousness. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z Spread through eight galleries whose spaciousness aids concentration, each pair or group forms its own mini-seminar. Art Review: Matisse Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-29T22:44:14Z On paper, Harding could be classified as just another “female folk singer/songwriter,” but her music and videos have a spaciousness that makes that descriptor seem unbearably limiting. Aldous Harding’s Gloriously Peculiar World of Songs 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Without the former drummer’s steadiness, some seemed pushed to newly fast tempos, losing the spaciousness that once let the interplay between Brownstein and Tucker’s vocals shine. Review: Sleater-Kinney end their American tour in Seattle, a place ‘we call home’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z But I sometimes missed a sense of spaciousness in his approach; it was all just a bit too close-up and unremittingly tense. VPO/Tilson Thomas – review 2013-04-10T17:15:01Z At the album’s heart is “Aequilibria,” a piece with rich contrast and surprising balance between spaciousness — conveyed through airy fifths — and knotty smallness. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Doesn’t the flowing line call for a moment of choreographic spaciousness and calm? Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s Ballet ‘Whipped Cream’ Is a Candyland Triumph 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Kikta doesn’t yet show the sensuousness for Coffee, but her statuesque quality, natural spaciousness and keen rhythm made it newly arresting. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Nutcracker’ Dancers in This Season’s Performances 2013-12-31T20:45:44Z According to the museum’s brochure, a system of movable walls “conveys an illusion of spaciousness” in the two-bedroom building. MoMA Built a House. Then It Disappeared. Now It’s Found. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It is an album of spaciousness and claustrophobia, possibility and inhibition; at its best it feels fidgety and unstable, at its worst downcast and a bit predictable. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z Ultimately, he brought the pieces closer together — making the Mahler a little more human in its warm, unrushed spaciousness, and the Copland a little more mysterious. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Comes to Town, Megawatt Appeal on Display 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In fact, McKee does spend a lot of Burning Boy on his lonesome; but even at its most sparse and spare, the album's delicate traces of piano and strings create a sense of lush spaciousness. New band of the day (Joe McKee No 1,535) 2013-06-18T15:41:50Z It's about spaciousness, it's about freedom, it's about joy, it's about wonder, it's about presence. What comedian Pete Holmes knows about the self and love, and self love 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Clad in his graduation robes, he jumps in the driver’s seat and does doughnuts in the school’s empty parking lot, all the while gushing about the CR-V’s spaciousness. Cuco’s “CR-V,” The Best (and Perhaps the Only) Tribute Song to the Honda S.U.V. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z But opera, with its combination of vivid drama and vast spaciousness, allows us to temporarily clothe ourselves in the experience of death. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s an oft-uttered sentiment, as is the fact that the meticulously groomed garden incorporates the six characteristics — spaciousness, tranquillity, artifice, antiquity, aquatic elements and panoramic views — that collectively create the ideal, balanced Japanese garden. Next Stop: In Kanazawa, Japan, Ancient Beauty Fuses With Modern Art 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z The spaciousness of the music doesn’t mean it’s vacuous. Frank Ocean and the virtues of boredom 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Yet in its spaciousness and harmonic richness, the music anticipated Bruckner and Mahler. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z When surveying a hotel, Cameron pays close attention to the holy trinity: cleanliness, spaciousness of rooms and value. The life of a hotel reviewer: Hang out in lobbies and bars, sleep in king-size beds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The novel in its spaciousness allows world enough and time for epochs to evolve, but the short story must seize in its thimble, all at once, crisis and its crux. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Just as the Trio’s meditative spaciousness points ahead to Minimalism, its structure also looks back to Serialism, a musical movement often considered Minimalism’s antithesis. La Monte Young Is Still Patiently Working on a Glacial Scale 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z We would feel not only the excitement of being among so many different cultures but also a certain spaciousness the whole week. The Cruise Issue: On the World?s Largest Cruise Ship, the Sea Is an Afterthought 2011-02-14T16:19:28Z True to his heritage as a Lhevinne student, he plays with Romantic fervor and spaciousness. Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The pair's chemistry afforded even the noisiest fare a spaciousness and complexity it lacked only a few years ago. Black Keys' sonic chess match 2010-12-31T13:48:00Z Of the show’s two main galleries, one is installed with typical Marksian spaciousness. Review: ‘What Nerve!’ Presents an Alternative History of American Art 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Rivette was a director who believed in spaciousness in the cinema, and asked for an investment of attention. Jacques Rivette: a subtle master of slow-burn cinema 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z He is not an exemplary stylist in all respects of line, yet the sweep and spaciousness of his dancing here lift the heart. Dance Review: Peter Martins?s ?Swan Lake? at New York City Ballet - Review 2011-09-14T22:29:22Z “That was my inner reality. I was experiencing it on the outside, simultaneously with my spaciousness within. I felt at one.” Nancy Holt, Outdoor Artist, Dies at 75 2014-02-12T05:00:30Z But, as the title suggests, there are some open sections as well, where stillness and spaciousness — like that found at the bottom of a canyon — take over. John Jasperse Prepares His New Work, ?Canyon? 2011-11-13T05:00:10Z While Mr. Haywood was mild and muted throughout his performance, Mr. Wosner was sparkling in the second-movement Andante variations, and he and Ms. Koh brought outdoor spaciousness to the final Presto romp. Review: For Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer,’ a Chance to Compare and Contrast 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The spaciousness of the songs in “Have One on Me” makes her music differently three dimensional. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z The spaciousness of the works drew attention to the superb playing of the quartet and especially to its sound, which glows even with the most minimal use of vibrato. Music Review: JACK Quartet at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-12-19T22:09:52Z And Grande hasn’t totally disconnected from the clarity and spaciousness of her early music, heard here on the pristine “Make Up,” which sounds naïve from a distance but roars with mature desire. Ariana Grande Is Living a Public Life. The Real Reveals Are in Her Music. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z This sense of spaciousness is surely due to Mr. Garcia’s designing sleight of hand, as seen in the bathroom and high ceilings. Check In: Hotel Review: NoMad Hotel in New York City 2013-08-07T16:24:53Z The writing remains sharp in its descriptions, but instead of a powerfully evoked landscape that suggests spaciousness and even a grim beauty in contrast to its oppressed inhabitants, here the setting shares their constriction. Books of The Times: David Means Colors His Stories Dark in ?The Spot? 2010-06-29T22:00:00Z What made me relax, and what I'm talking about, is spaciousness, love. What comedian Pete Holmes knows about the self and love, and self love 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z I tried to keep my distance, which considering the spaciousness of the property was not too difficult. What’s it like to go on vacation during a pandemic? I went to a newly reopened resort to find out. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z This process explains the spaciousness of his paintings. Art Review: Recent David Hockney Work at the de Young in San Francisco 2013-12-23T23:10:14Z Mr. Langrée, who often chooses tempos on the quick side, here brought spaciousness and restraint to the first movement. Music Review: Unfinished Works at Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-28T19:03:32Z Above the collection floors the spaciousness and daylight is leavened by a corporate sobriety in three floors devoted to programming that helps people address essential knowledge gaps. A Glowing Shrine to the Printed Word 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z The work for eight has a touch of the Baroque, and within this world Ms. Boisson, who dances with a lovely spaciousness, was the main attraction. Dance Review: School of American Ballet, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-06-07T21:21:09Z In the concerto’s slow movement, meanwhile, the clarinet and orchestra trade scales that gently drift downward, creating a sense of spaciousness and peace. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Kenrokuen means “garden of six attributes,” a reference to a Chinese poet’s checklist of essential characteristics: antiquity, artifice, panoramas, seclusion, spaciousness and waterways. Japan’s bullet train has made this well-preserved city more accessible than ever 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z With the absence of natural sources, here’s your guide to infusing spaciousness into windowless rooms. How to make windowless rooms feel more spacious 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z You’ll enjoy the spaciousness of a vaulted ceiling in the room with a slow rotating paddle fan on those warmer days. Things to avoid when building a three-season room 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z But there’s a lightness, a figurative and literal spaciousness to clearing shelf space for new enthusiasms, new obsessions. New Season, New Music 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z If it doesn’t work to remove a wall or you’re just not ready to commit to knocking down a wall, widening a doorway can also create an illusion of increased spaciousness, Helgeson says. Room to grow: Finding ways to add space to your home without a major remodel | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z A similar paradox animates “Two Centuries,” an outstanding album that the composer Qasim Naqvi dropped back in the summertime, but whose spaciousness and equanimity feels most worthy of our attention right now. Review | Hold still. Can you hear Qasim Naqvi’s jazz stopping time? 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The spaciousness of the style makes the sense of loss richer and the questions posed — what constitutes moral action, how best can we help one another — at once simpler and more profound. The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “My husband also likes historic properties. … All the period details were still intact, and, of course, the spaciousness, which means a lot to my husband but not so much to me. He’s a big guy.” 1911 Capitol Hill house for sale for $2.6 million 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Units at the front have floor-to-ceiling windows, adding light, views and a sense of spaciousness. Boutique condo building taps into D.C.’s U Street vibe 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z “Users get to experience the depth, impact, and spaciousness of a movie theatre at home — without the fuss of extra cables or satellite speakers.” Sennheiser’s new $1,500 Ambeo Soundbar Plus will probably sound incredible 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Visually receding in a landscape, blue flowers cultivate spaciousness and calm, as well as a sense of cooling relief when temperatures climb. These true blue flowers bring a welcome cool and calm to gardens (and gardeners) 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z But the co-op’s spaciousness proved useful in another way when their adult children returned. Watergate co-op on the market for $2.4 million 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z That spaciousness is apparent as soon as you step inside. 2024 Volkswagen ID Buzz electric microbus revealed: less flower, more power 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z David Mitchell, another fan, told me via email that he admires Sjón for his “ticklish, full-moon sense of humor” and the poetic simplicity of his style: “spaciousness and absence” that make him think of Taoism. Into the Belly of the Whale With Sjón 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z At City Homes Eckington, in Northeast Washington’s Eckington neighborhood, the couple found a pleasing blend of new construction, urban neighborhood romance and, most importantly, a feeling of spaciousness, both mental and physical. At City Homes in D.C., condo living is a multilevel thing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z College residence hall rooms are not known for their spaciousness. Preparing your home for back-to-school time | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Goodman likes the open floor plan on the main level and the feeling of spaciousness provided by the loft on the bedroom level. Single-family floor plan in Clarksburg, Md., development had that ‘magnetic feel’ 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z “Combined with the flow and spaciousness of the main floor — it’s very welcoming.” How a comic book collection helped build a home renovation 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z But when you took the action away, it left an inviting spaciousness that you could then enter. Brian Eno has had a pretty good quarantine 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Tesla already applies that principle to its interiors, which are known for their spaciousness and lack of clutter. German Automakers Are Charged Up and Ready to Take on Tesla 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Residents highlight the tranquility, the friendliness of their neighbors and the spaciousness that allows them breathing room, especially in the pandemic era. In woodsy Potomac Falls, tranquility and neighborliness at an upscale price 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z This spaciousness lends well to audio quality, which is dynamic and full-bodied. Samsung Galaxy Buds Live review: cool beans 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z High ceilings, French oak floors and crisp white walls create a feeling of warmth and spaciousness within the open-concept floor plan. Home of the Week: Silver Lake contemporary shows off its shades 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z He points out that while lots of space has been consistently sought-after, spaciousness is at an all-time premium due to recent stay-at-home orders. Prep your home for the market by staging it to sell | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Here I was with nothing to do but inhabit the spaciousness of every passing moment, to bathe at leisure in the pooled flow of time itself. Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The home’s main level was designed with 10-foot ceilings, lending a feeling of spaciousness throughout. Community debuts multigenerational home design | Provided by Toll Brothers 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The truck’s flat nose did sort of peak out behind the dashboard in front of me, but the spaciousness and the Model 3-style screen kept clawing my attention back inside. Tesla Cybertruck first ride: inside Elon Musk’s electric pickup truck 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Vaulted ceilings and skylights add a sense of spaciousness to the open-space interior. Lourdes Hernández lists hip Mediterranean home in Los Feliz 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z In the car, I suggest that perhaps the spaciousness of the LA landscape relates to Gordon’s use of space and rhythm in her vocal phrasings; The Sprawl, as Sonic Youth called it. Kim Gordon: 'There's a wall of faceless men I have to climb over' 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z “On the coast, there’s a spaciousness looking out to sea – it has a potential for images of isolated figures,” he says. The big picture: a suited man on Brighton beach 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z The upstairs also capitalizes on spaciousness, with an open loft area made for family entertaining or relaxing or a secondary gathering area. Mountain, water views abound at gated community | Provided by Toll Brothers 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The desolate spaciousness between humans, between human moments, not yet filled in with chattering ghosts of reassurance. “The Starlet Apartments” 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In surveys, passengers would later approve of it, praising its quiet, comfort and spaciousness. A380: a comfortable, eerily quiet cruise ship of the skies 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Also, the spaciousness of the plot allows for the gravest errors of judgment. The Encrypted Truths of “Never Look Away” 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z To boot, the bag’s integrated design is streamlined to maximize spaciousness while saving weight. OGIO Takes A Stand - Golf Digest 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z I recall the spaciousness I found in Northwest skies that first August and many summers that followed. The toll of murky skies on the human spirit 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Roland Paoletti, who served as the commissioning architect, preached an “underlying philosophy” of spaciousness, maximising natural light and using materials such as polished metal and concrete, but considered each station an individual entity. Uniformity is the watchword for the new Elizabeth line 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Built for a smaller crew, the ship boasts an internal spaciousness that cuts against most U.S. Italian manufacturer wants to help build that bigger U.S. Navy fleet 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Floating stairs between the third and fourth levels add spaciousness to the atmosphere. Four-floor townhouses provide easy access to Old Town Alexandria 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z This adds to the spaciousness of the already large rooms. A new development less than a half-hour from D.C. has an equestrian center and 250 acres of greenery 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Yet in their spaciousness, Mr. Portman’s buildings had an undeniable appeal. John C. Portman Jr., architect who re-envisioned the modern hotel, dies at 93 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z He taught me about breath and support, and I felt my voice take on a power and spaciousness that surprised and thrilled me. Kicked out for being gay then rescued by opera: writer Garth Greenwell's extraordinary awakening 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The spaciousness and blur of Mofokeng’s pictures come ultimately from intimacy with this ‘‘gossamer’’ world. Victory in the Shadows 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z It’s that spaciousness that attracted Jewel Parker Frye to the development. Fairview Manor in Bowie delivers estate-sized homes, many on one-acre lots 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z The cabin is remarkably comfortable, similar to a luxury SUV, with a sense of spaciousness bolstered by massive windows. What It's Like to Fly the World's Cheapest Personal Jet 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z There’s a feeling of spaciousness because the houses aren’t close to one another. D.C.’s Brightwood neighborhood undergoes a renewal 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The Red Dot jury praised the Google car for the innovative nature of its design, but also for its spaciousness, elegance, and simplicity; the car is being displayed at the Red Dot Museum in Singapore. Google's self-driving car design boss speaks on her strategy 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z “The silent meditation process made me more open to the workings of God in my own life, and it brings me a sense of spaciousness in my engagement in others.” Church elects lesbian pastor with a message of inclusion 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z In the bedroom, symmetry simplifies and adds a sense of serenity and spaciousness, explained Ms. Handegan: “When I look in this room, I can’t see anything but symmetry.” Small Wonder: A Tiny Apartment That Looks Palatial 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z His beats—the rhythmic and instrumental tracks that form the base for most hip-hop songs—also incorporate melodic elements derived from synthetic keyboards and woodwinds, to give a sense of spaciousness. How Mike Will Made It 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Ceilings that soar to 22 feet in the living and family rooms create spaciousness. Potomac luxury home helps fund school in India 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The spaciousness indoors balances well with the expansive outdoors, creating a comfortable living space. Peek inside the most expensive condo on the market in D.C. 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Clean lines and white walls bring a sense of spaciousness into its 2,039 square feet. Jason Statham acts fast to secure Beverly Hills showplace 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Given the spaciousness and access to dining, attractions and shopping this property is your best bet for teenagers. The Family Travel Guide To San Francisco 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Mindfulness creates a spaciousness of mind that allows emotions to be there without clinging to them. 5 reasons why anxiety is so hard to manage (and what you can do to cope) 2014-04-07T00:00:00Z More importantly, ordinary families, too, have come value their spaciousness and convenience, says Cook. Which era of house do people like best? 2013-09-06T08:00:25Z Yes, Woods again took advantage of the spaciousness and playable rough that Bay Hill -- like Torrey Pines and Doral -- offers, and the victory was his 20th on those three courses. Tiger Woods And The Will To Excel 2013-03-26T04:00:00Z To replace that treacherous ladder, she created a semi-cantilevered open-tread structure that concealed closets underneath and brought a sense of spaciousness to the back of the apartment. | East 11th Street: East 11th Street/Habitats - A Test Kitchen for Design 2012-04-14T02:17:17Z The fort itself was laid out on a scale of amplitude suitable to the spaciousness of the site. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Within the Cathedral the first impression is its spaciousness. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z As she watched, she felt herself becoming lost in the spaciousness, the silence of an Arizona evening. Bruce of the Circle A 2012-03-06T03:00:27.120Z I admired in Norwich the broad avenues, the wealth of old trees, the luxurious spaciousness of the private grounds. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Where such things are brought upon the scene, a certain spaciousness and amplitude of effect ensues as a matter of course. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The deeper he plunged into the district of Ufa, the more he was impressed by the spaciousness and fertility of that country. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z Mean houses enclosed it, shambles disfigured it; but I noticed no more than its width and spaciousness. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z The journey thus appealed to Kate's senses by its aspect of spaciousness and filled her with a new and strange feeling of liberty. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z Generally speaking, the houses are of wood, the idea of spaciousness seeming prominent with the builders. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z It came from the vanity of the eighteenth century, its love of spaciousness and show. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Here I was an individual who, moving about for an hour or so in the morning, spent the day until late afternoon in some quiet and cool inner spaciousness. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z As he said more recently, he likes the spaciousness. Hockney Bests Hirst With IPhone Sketches From Remote Yorkshire 2011-11-16T18:45:13Z "Written in blank verse, that is both flexible and dramatic, the author gives an effect of spaciousness, combined with tense feeling." The Deluge and Other Poems 2011-10-15T02:00:29.350Z But here all was spaciousness, and even the side streets had three stories and smug porches with tidy rockers and bay windows. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z Serenity, generosity, clarity, spaciousness, simplicity and dignity aren’t words that describe jet travel today. City Room: I. M. Pei's Terminal 6 Is Being Demolished 2011-10-06T11:15:48Z Now she was seeking something more than spaciousness of air and forest; but the road, in which a few people were walking, made her keep herself under control. The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z What lines, what spaciousness of deserted squares, what heaven-high rows of pylons! The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z The sunlight came streaming into the cockpit, the sea glittered with a friendly spaciousness beneath us, and this voyage in the wind seemed a pleasant spring adventure far from the dangers of war. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Its substantial stone spaciousness, its mossy roof, its arching tree, and the brook that backed away from the wading willows, up the hillside, under the rail fence, and ran around its side, all were unmistakable. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z The first impression it gave her was that of spaciousness. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z He captured what Philip Roth, in a 1973 New York Times essay on baseball, called “its longueurs and thrills, its spaciousness, its suspensefulness, its heroics, its nuances, its lingo, its ‘characters,’ its peculiarly hypnotic tedium.” Essay: Essay - A Veteran Baseball Novel Comes Off the Bench - By Matt Weiland 2011-08-26T22:51:34Z As she took off her furs in the hall, Sally was very grateful for the warmth and the cheerfulness and the spaciousness of the great house. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z The spaciousness of the house was one reason for the devil to come in so easily, as he thought. Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z The house seemed very large to her, and compared with the vicarage at Wharton, which had been hitherto her model of elegance and spaciousness, it was so. The Green Casket and other stories 2011-07-27T02:00:30.510Z The Germantown road was a favorite ride with them, and this day they stopped often to exclaim over the spaciousness of the landscape which the leafless trees admitted to their view. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z It is pictorial certainly, and effective, but it entirely lacks the spaciousness of Perugino. Great Masters in Painting: Perugino 2011-06-27T02:00:59.487Z Even so, it was not long before this spaciousness was insufficient, and the headquarters brimmed over into No. 27 as well. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z You'll love my rooms there—the spaciousness of them, and the sunset on the lagoons from the windows. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z There was a spaciousness to the living room with its high, raftered ceiling that appealed to me greatly. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z Every city ought to have a center, and every center ought to signify in its spaciousness, its arrangement and its architecture, a city's dignity. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z No one else could so present the continuous space of nature, the spaciousness and vastness of the distance, or bathe his pictures in the dreamy sunlight of summer. Great Masters in Painting: Perugino 2011-06-27T02:00:59.487Z Everywhere he found spaciousness for his soul, nowhere was he cramped by the little, much as he put forward the value of the great; this we should do, and not leave that undone. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z The public buildings are not specially imposing, but St. George’s Hall stands on a commanding site and in exterior and interior holds its own with the best civic temples, in spaciousness and grace. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The pomp and spaciousness of this building, with its immense dome-like roof, was very striking. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z It had an empty spaciousness of effect; the one continually living thing seemed to be the Green River, hurrying headlong, noisily, perpetually, in an eternal flight from this high desolation. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Her purity, her calm, the incommunicable magic of her spaciousness, the thrall of her splendour entered our veins. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z The houses which stretched away on either hand had that spaciousness, that air of dignity and quiet, which bespeaks wealth and leisure. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z It is ecstasy to breathe here in this delicious intoxication of pure air and of spaciousness and light. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Its spaciousness made her envious, she stepped past Denise's room to the upper landings. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Pictures of the immense spaciousness, the softness, cleanliness and dignity of first-class compartments appeared in his mind.... Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z It has size without spaciousness, opportunity without imaginativeness, action without climax, wealth without distinction. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z It was not helped by the blank spaciousness of the set, which leaves the participants looking removed not just from the audience but external events. Rewind TV: Britain's Banks; 10 O'Clock Live; Question Time; Piers Morgan Tonight; Hattie 2011-01-23T00:04:14Z I could hardly believe in the airy spaciousness of the high room, or the physical distance between me and my fellow-watchers. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z In length the house is one hundred and forty feet, its front just enough broken to avoid monotony, and its spaciousness affording an air of comfort. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z We were struck with the spaciousness of the bay, and the beauty of the city as we approached. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z The cathedral, although giving the impression of spaciousness, does not receive full credit for its size—as a matter of fact it is the largest in England. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z Great works are performed, not by strength but perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z And an humiliating littleness, as of atoms, overcame them, both of them, as they sat gazing into the spaciousness of the skies and the eternal stars. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z In a measure this hall was a reproduction of the English type, particularly in its spaciousness of dimension. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z The building, with its grey choir and galleries, its faded-looking painted pillars, and bare whitewashed ceiling, enclosed in its bald dreary spaciousness countless black rows of melancholy human worshippers. The Undying Past The roomy interior is practically unbroken by the usual divisions of chancel, nave, &c., and this very appearance of spaciousness assists admirably in showing off the windows to the greatest advantage. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z The luxury of the Roman villa consisted rather in the spaciousness and variety of building, to suit the changing seasons, than in furniture for comfort or splendour. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius I love its spaciousness and its slate floor, and the ponderous oak beams that bisect its smoke-blackened ceiling and are hung with bunches of dried herbs and with hams. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune The hallway is entered from the Colonial porch and is unique because of its spaciousness. Remodeled Farmhouses Nothing had ever seemed so easy as the bowling of the opposite side on this fine June evening, and Michael tried to banish the thought of Barnes in the spaciousness of these level fields. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Through the cobwebbed spaciousness and breathless quiet of the place sounded the ill-omened quaver of a barn owl. The Tempering It secures life in attainment and possession, insuring it repose, simplicity, and spaciousness. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The brightness and spaciousness of the next apartment, into which he could obtain but a partial glimpse through the open door, seemed greatly enhanced in comparison with this. The Children of the World We drove also in Forest Park, a really beautiful place, with a spaciousness truly magnificent. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 He felt he would have found it queerly shriveled after the spaciousness of Oxford. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Then once more, drawn by its spaciousness guessed at through Spring Gardens, Victoria walked into Saint James's Park. A Bed of Roses There is in short, an exclusiveness, a completeness, spaciousness and peacefulness, about this his foreign abode, which comports well with his native feelings, and closely assimilates with the home of his childhood. Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France Curtis would have been more profoundly impressed with the spaciousness of the hall and the dining-room had they been less like the interior of a hotel. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop The place was small in itself, but so well laid out that it had the full effect of spaciousness. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 The drawing-rooms and audience-chambers have a splendid spaciousness: the state apartments of many a royal palace in Europe sink into insignificance in this respect when compared with them. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu It is remarkable, in view of the spaciousness of the coelom, that the funnels of the latter have not been seen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" And there is in his work something of the easy, deliberate spaciousness that we find in Whitman. The Vagabond in Literature This is the impression I would like to give at once in this my opening chapter—a sense of spaciousness—power to expand, to develop, to open out, to make progress, to advance and grow. Russian Life To-day The immediate vicinity of the house has been left relatively open to provide a feeling of spaciousness when viewed from inside the house. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia She had none of the ready platitudes which were the current coin of his conversation; and in the spaciousness of her nature, he got bewildered and lost. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance The thick walls of the old house, the sea-breeze, the spaciousness of her shaded room, together with her own reduced condition, had prevented the invalid from feeling the heat. East Angels The spaciousness the directness, the tolerance that characterise Whitman’s work are to be found to Morris. The Vagabond in Literature Palace it certainly is in the character and spaciousness of its rooms, but the furniture is what we should consider, in our own country, simple and rather conventional. Russian Life To-day In their spaciousness they are Oriental, but those service-staircases do not look healthy. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The prevailing feeling is a noble spaciousness both in scale and in form, an equanimity based upon knowledge and character, a grandeur of conception expressed by severely simple execution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Bonnie gave it a covetous look, contrasting its spaciousness with the primitive cabin in which she now lived. The Colonists To his quivering heart this was in some way a refuge, as compared with the terrible spaciousness of the forest. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The two turned away from the fading transparency of the sleeping-room wall, and their short, thin bodies were in incongruous contrast to the spaciousness of the metal-sheathed corridor down which they walked. A Gift For Terra But after Ruth went away and the family drew within themselves, as they did, the hospitable spaciousness seemed to become bleakness, as if the place itself changed with the change of spirit. Fidelity A Novel Their wide wings need the breadth of the ocean gulf; the spaciousness of desert solitudes. Toilers of the Sea Over the King's palace at Ravenna, with all its gloomy splendour and inhospitable spaciousness, lay an air of breathless anxiety. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 We are all proud of the spaciousness of our ship, but not even the Star Lord can provide separate tables for everybody who—Oh, good morning, Mr. Jasperson! The Star Lord They could see at a glance its size and shape and spaciousness. Under Boy Scout Colors But that was a characteristic of the sahibs: they loved spaciousness; and if Craddock Sahib's family was small, his household was correspondingly large; Kaluja Dass as khansaman ruled over quite a regiment of underlings. Barclay of the Guides What have we in modern times to equal these ruins in spaciousness? The Pearl of India Her room, a front one on the second floor, had a look of spaciousness and exquisite order. The House of Fulfilment A modern dwelling of average size could have been erected there without entirely exhausting the spaciousness of the hall. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The spaciousness of these halls, fair madam, as doubtless you have perceived, gives wide scope for choice of seats. Rossmoyne The pictures, the spaciousness, the emptiness and all that! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature His genius has the rich, salty tang of an Elizabethan adventurer and the spaciousness of those times. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The two correspondents amused themselves by watching the delegates and other foreign arrivals strolling to and fro along the elegant spaciousness of the Quai, chatting with one another. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings It was the life he had lusted for, and the mere physical spaciousness of his new outlook was a delight. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story So that all the most impressionable years of my life centre upon the Burnmore rectory and the easy spaciousness of Burnmore Park. The Passionate Friends Opposite the Plaza are several government offices, and two or three very large, fine club-houses, remarkable for the excellence of their appointments and the spaciousness of the public rooms. Due South or Cuba Past and Present There is something in its spaciousness that tells of the great grain plains at the threshold of which it stands. Westward with the Prince of Wales For something larger had come into his life, a sense of a vaster universe without, and its spaciousness and strangeness filled his soul with a nameless trouble and a vague unrest. Dreamers of the Ghetto Now, as she tilted her hat, the spaciousness of the name recurred to her. The Paliser case South Africa is a country not only of immense spaces but of an immense spaciousness. The Passionate Friends It was long and low, suggesting spaciousness and comfort, and enclosed about by a white picket fence. The Duke Of Chimney Butte It hangs over the St. Lawrence with a sumptuous air of spaciousness. Westward with the Prince of Wales The public bathhouse, near the railroad depot, is remarkable for spaciousness and for the excellence of the general arrangements. Aztec Land In the spaciousness of the name, momentarily she lost herself. The Paliser case After the glare of the hall the dusk of the veranda was as grateful as its coolth and spaciousness. Nobody The camp sites were chosen for spaciousness, absence of marshes, natural drainage situations, and proximity to lines of transport and a good water supply. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources His attractive ranch on the plains, where the rolling lands meet the foot-hills of the Rockies, has an air of splendid spaciousness. Westward with the Prince of Wales Even so, however, the church must often have been inconveniently crowded, and the spaciousness of the later addition shows how much this inconvenience had been felt. Memorials of Old London Volume I For spaciousness as well as attractive gayety, the Prater is scarcely equalled—certainly not surpassed—by any other European driveway. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Wherever we went were sailors, by the hundred it seemed, and yet I was struck by the size and airy spaciousness between decks. Great Britain at War Out of vastness and leisure, out of spaciousness of soul and wisdom, out of the deeps and heights of compassion, the Guru speaks—and suddenly the woman's soul turns to him listening. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation He once more spoke of the sense of spaciousness and possibility the vast prairies of the West had given him, but today he went further and dwelt upon the need of making those possibilities assured. Westward with the Prince of Wales "It's really very charming of you two to be so pleased to have me," Honor said quietly, as she settled herself, nothing loth, in the spaciousness of Captain Desmond's favourite chair. Captain Desmond, V.C. The spaciousness of the latter impressed her, and she was pleased with the evident unity between these brown-faced, strong-armed toilers and their leader. Hawtrey's Deputy I think that’s the best thing wealth can give—a sort of spaciousness.” Brand Blotters I seemed never before to have enjoyed so intensely the exquisite softness of the air, and there was all about me a sense of spaciousness which gave a curious feeling of power. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia The architecture is Byzantine, and the interior gives a wonderful impression of grace and spaciousness. The Critic in the Orient It throws the human will once more into the foreground, and gives the drama of our days its rightful spaciousness and breadth. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations One other reason for his apparent inconsistencies was, if one may so express it, the spaciousness of his nature. Spare Hours This, uncommon in no part of England, is especially common in Norfolk and Suffolk; and some of these churches, like Ranworth in Norfolk, have much dignity and spaciousness of proportion. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church The spaciousness of the room impressed her, and she was pleased with the evident unity of these brown-faced, strong-armed toilers with their leader. Masters of the Wheat-Lands His immediate feeling was of coolness and width and spaciousness, in contrast with the hot grinding hostility that had bored so closely in on him for the last hour. The House with the Green Shutters The stairway led up from the room and gave it an air of even greater spaciousness. The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar It was uncultivated and deserted as waste land, but as well trimmed, in spite of its spaciousness, as a lawn. The Chamber of Life Bound for years by the narrow restrictions and conventionality of the Poughkeepsie countryside, she found the spaciousness and newness of this life 45 inviting and satisfying. The Range Boss He crossed the top of Whitehall, passed beneath the Admiralty Arch and entered the garnished, graveled, tree-bordered spaciousness of the Mall. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel It is a mistaken idea that country children and youths have through the spaciousness of environment alone all that they need of play. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium The delicate colours of the world, its hopeful spaciousness, its dancing light, the high blue vault, abruptly changed to the dim, cold, restricted outlook of age. Old Junk The spaciousness of the previous camp was conspicuously absent at El Hejir. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan The enormous spaciousness of the Shed again became evident. Space Platform After watching for a while, we walked about and saw several adjacent temples, marked by their spaciousness. Travels in the Far East Capitals in Bayeux Cathedral The interior of Bayeux, besides its greater spaciousness and grandeur of effect, is attractive on other grounds. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine A liberal philosophy becomes the habit of minds thus exercised; a breadth and spaciousness of thought, in which lines, seemingly parallel, may converge at leisure, and principles, recognized as incommensurable, may be safely antagonistic. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin It gave me a feeling of spaciousness and dignity. Gossamer 1915 So there was spaciousness and freshness and something close to elation on Bors's ship on the day it was to fight for the high satisfaction of getting killed. Talents, Incorporated In the next place, these free lands and this treasury of industrial resources have existed over such vast spaces that they have demanded of democracy increasing spaciousness of design and power of execution. The Frontier in American History On entering it, both our travellers were struck with the spaciousness of the hall and of the staircase, and with the sumptuous appearance in general of the whole interior. Rollo in Holland Ascending to the first floor, one is struck with the spaciousness of the hall-way, which extends from the entrance to the door of the lecture-hall. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 The windows are fitted with light green glass, which gives a sort of ghostly twilight to its bare spaciousness, with heavy masses of gloom among the pillars of the flanking colonnade. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland An arcade between the two towers forms a porch, the entrance to the interior whose central nave stretches out in great spaciousness. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 From this society, seated amidst a wealth of material advantages, and breeding individualism, energetic competition, inventiveness, and spaciousness of design, came the triumph of the strongest. The Frontier in American History His wealth would give an amplitude, a spaciousness that would make the relationship tolerable. The Highgrader All around is 'an everlasting wash of air' and a sense of spaciousness, which it is to be hoped no cynically named 'improvements' may ever diminish. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts There are scenes of a different beauty at Lynton from that of these few miles of cliff—and to me lacking something of the spaciousness and splendour of Heddon's Mouth—but beautiful none the less. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland The very spaciousness is solitary, and the long vista of the walks conduces to vague wonderings rather than to peaceful hours of thought. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 There were breadth and spaciousness in his eyes and his smile as well as in his manner. The Choice of Life He received me in a little room off the main hall of his house, whose spaciousness made him seem diminutive. A Daughter of the Middle Border The spaciousness of the solar system has captivated the imagination, as have the time cycles revealed by the paths of comets and meteors. Human Traits and their Social Significance For him, weaving certainties out of the tenuous threads of hallucination, there developed the spaciousness and might of epic tragedies. The Tyranny of Weakness The structure extends into the choir the great width of the four aisles of the church previously formed in the nave, and adds greatly both to spaciousness and grandeur. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys It only means that a formless horizon of immense hope, indefinite and vague, hovers above the present, to give it spaciousness and freedom. The Complex Vision “In reading ‘Paradise Lost,’” says Mr Lowell, “one has a feeling of spaciousness such as no other poet gives.” A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 The sciences satisfy us not only in that they bring order into what at first seems the chaos of our surroundings, but in that they are themselves beautiful in their spaciousness and their simplicity. Human Traits and their Social Significance Within, the walls rise right up to the roof with no break, and give an impression of great spaciousness. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London His books have a quality which I shall venture to call ‘spaciousness,’ in the hope that the word conveys the meaning I try to express. The Bibliotaph and Other People “I’m sure you’re very grateful to your father, aren’t you, Edwin?” she majestically assumed, when she had admired passionately the window, the door, the pattern of the hearth-tiles, and the spaciousness. Clayhanger One prime secret of it is the air and spaciousness, the freedom and elemental grandeur of Byron. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle The girl, dressed simply in some light stuff, and scarcely décolletée, seemed somewhat lost in the spaciousness of her surroundings. The Letter of the Contract They reached the back porch and passed through the wide hall into the shaded spaciousness of the drawing-room. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story This ill fated spot, from its spaciousness, and beauty of situation, has always been the theatre of the great fêtes of the nation, as well as the scene of its greatest calamities. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. On reaching the spaciousness of Bakrota Mall, he had no choice but to ride abreast of his companion. The Great Amulet She was amazed at the spaciousness of the rooms, the feeling in them as though the streets were far away. Mary Gray We exchanged the freedom and spaciousness of life for a cramped existence compounded of spectacles and bad grammar, this complicated still further by the multiplication tables, the dead languages and indigestion tabloids. Here are Ladies An urbane civilization produced it, leisure has given it spaciousness, ease has made it generous. A Preface to Politics There was a spaciousness, a planetary sweep and glittering breadth that shriveled me. Journeys to Bagdad It was something closely akin to second sight, and for the moment the spaciousness of the vision that I saw but dimly thrilled me with its possibilities. The Lost Valley Many things combine to lend force to its appeal—the courage of its martyrs, its spaciousness and yet at the same time the attractiveness of its appeal and its suggestion of spiritual brotherhood. Modern Religious Cults and Movements Mrs. Joyce put a spaciousness into her tone wholly disproportionate to their screed of tussocks and boulders; and then paused, hoping that the next inquiry might relate to Bessy. Strangers at Lisconnel My astonishment was great at the spaciousness of the room, which had in length a magnificent and palatial effect, nor did I immediately discover the cause of its apparent grandeur. Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath The movement of the waters is, as it were, subconsciously felt rather than perceived; or, if perceived, it is lost in the pervading sense of placid spaciousness. Nature Mysticism Its height and spaciousness were imperfectly discernible by starlight, and by gleams from a street-lamp. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Mountainside hotels for star-tourists would look down upon a scene of tranquility and cozy spaciousness. Operation: Outer Space Its old brick walls are sturdy, and its rooms are of a fine spaciousness. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Carrick's study was one of a pair of rooms he had added to the farmhouse which he inhabited, a long apartment of many windows, designed for spaciousness, and possessing no other good quality. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories He is confronted with a spaciousness that knows no limit. The Quest of the Simple Life He was no sooner alone on the great unlit Common with its vast sense of spaciousness, its cool silence, its splendid dome of starlit sky, than all his anger and disappointment seemed to pass away. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton But No. 6 Grosvenor Square, in the spaciousness of its rooms, the simple beauty of its furnishings, and especially in its complete absence of ostentation, made it the worthy abiding place of an American Ambassador. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II It was full of windows and being all on one floor, gave a fine effect of spaciousness. Lydia of the Pines What the city lacks of spaciousness is compensated by action. Burned Bridges In this delicate and fragile light the beauty and spaciousness of the church are softened and simplified. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Long he stood under that spell of line and colour and magnitude, lost in the spaciousness of it. Bunker Bean What amazed London was the fabulous richness, the absurd spaciousness, the extravagant perfection of every part of the immense organism. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes As Hope Wayne entered she was impressed by the spaciousness of the room, the chastened light, and the coruscations of rich color hanging upon the walls. Trumps A spaciousness as of endless vistas enthralled and, a little, awed her. Success A Novel What, then, we are to look for in entering such a church as S. Maria del Fiore is, above all, a noble spaciousness and the beauty of just that. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition It was a venerable mansion, as was somewhere previously stated, of a wide and rambling disorderly spaciousness, built, for the most part, of weather-stained old bricks, in the goodly style called Elizabethan. Israel Potter After her own little room, the mere spaciousness of it seemed almost noble. The Real Adventure It had a certain spaciousness and it did, so to speak, quarantine you from life. Balloons It brought uppermost in him a corresponding zest in the sheer spaciousness of the land, a feeling always intensified by the thought of England. The Three Black Pennys A Novel There are but six figures in the whole picture, and it is just this spaciousness, perhaps, earth and sky counting for so much, that makes this work so delightful. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition It was so easy to avoid people in the spaciousness of De Chaumont's manor that I did not again see the young Bonaparte nor any of the guests except Croghan. Lazarre Look at you with your big free spaciousness—your power of loving and attracting love! The Real Adventure I noted the splendid and ornate spaciousness of the grand-stand crowned with innumerable eagles, and the calm, matter-of-fact tone in which a friend informed me that the grand-stand had been burned down six months ago. Your United States Impressions of a first visit And the torrent of humanity pouring liquidly aslant through the mirror-like light, and the spaciousness…. The Inheritors He drew deep breaths of delight at the magnificence of his outlook—its vastness, its spaciousness, its wholesome amplitude and loneliness. A Maid of the Silver Sea In many of these houses we find an almost perfect sense of proportion, of harmony and balance, of dignity, and a spaciousness and sense of hospitality, which few of our modern houses achieve. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today It's a luxury though, Rod, that kind of spaciousness, and you aren't very rich. The Real Adventure The point of the story is that it illustrates New York—a New York more authentic than the spaciousness of upper Fifth Avenue or the unnatural dailiness of grand hotels. Your United States Impressions of a first visit In no other way can you achieve an effect of spaciousness—and spaciousness is the thing of all other things most desirable in the crowded city. The House in Good Taste They threaded their way through the tables to the spaciousness of the Place Gambetta. Jaffery Grand Pekin is of their architecture; which is Chinese with a spaciousness and monumental solemnity added. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Green shades along the south guarded the cool and quiet spaciousness of the Merchants and Miners, flooded with clear white light from the northern windows. Copper Streak Trail And the kindly shadow had faded, the voice lingering about the room, mingling with the faint silver moonlight, passing out into the wider spaciousness of the rolling clouds. The Golden Scarecrow Do not admit an unnecessary rug, or chair, or picture, lest you lose the spaciousness, the dignity of the room. The House in Good Taste As for his own definite part of best man, he played it with an Elizabethan spaciousness. Jaffery The study has a background of spaciousness that suggests American scenery. Edward MacDowell The spaciousness of the plan, the boldness of the drawing, the fulness and intensity of the colour scheme, engage one's attention at the start. Edward MacDowell "Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones; yet you see its height and spaciousness." English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The room is really quite small, but by making the furniture keep its place against the walls an effect of spaciousness has been obtained. The House in Good Taste In the European town one finds safety, spaciousness and hygiene; in the Chinese town, romance, overcrowding and disease. The Problem of China She did not fill that emptiness and spaciousness of Nicky's head, but he couldn't get her out of it. The Tree of Heaven An anthill, a beehive, a rabbit-warren are his models of domestic comfort: what is stinted room for two Americans is spaciousness for a dozen Chinese. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 We think of him as of our Chalmers, found dead in like manner: the same childlike, unspoiled, open face; the same gentle mouth; the same spaciousness and softness of nature; the same look of power. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 It has been called the "Little House of Many Mirrors," for so much of its spaciousness and charm is the effect of skilfully managed reflections. The House in Good Taste They cast covert glances of discomfort at each other, begged for more music from the orchestra, tallied with an effort of the size and spaciousness of the palace and the magnificence of the feast. The Fortieth Door There is a breeziness, a spaciousness, an undefiled ecstasy of purity about the High Sierras. The California Birthday Book He entered the quiet room and crossed its dimly lighted spaciousness to the bed. Out of the Ashes Millet's landscapes also have a depth of spaciousness which reaches into infinite distance. Jean Francois Millet You can't consider one room alone, unless it be a bedroom, for in our modern houses we believe too thoroughly in spaciousness to separate our living rooms by ante-chambers and formal approaches. The House in Good Taste And indeed is there anywhere else such spaciousness of cloisters, such profusion of minutely cut marble, such incrustation, for better or worse, of semiprecious stones. The Collectors In this respect the palace of Versailles offers much greater facilities than that of Berlin on account of the larger number and, if we except the White Hall, the greater spaciousness of the apartments. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle These we arranged in brass shells, empty husks of death, till the bleak spaciousness of our shattered house was gay. Where the Sabots Clatter Again The number and spaciousness of the apartments, the richness of the decorations, though no longer retaining their pristine beauty, and above all, the terraces and gardens, have a grand effect. The Idler in France Amid all this splendour and spaciousness of public buildings, what is the aspect of the ordinary streets? Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul It had hardly regained its fifteenth century spaciousness and simplicity before it began to fill up again, but this time with pictures and fittings of the time. The Collectors But the house could not yield them two rooms, though from the outside it had an air of spaciousness. The Roll-Call Yet, in the depth, strength, and richness of the colour-chord, in the atmospheric spaciousness and charm of the landscape background, in the breadth of the draperies, it is already Giorgionesque. The Earlier Work of Titian Narrow as Miss Cather's scene may be, she fills it with a spaciousness and candor of personality that quite transcends the gnarled eccentricity and timid inhibitions of the local colorists. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) The arrangements are practically uniform however great may be the differences of sumptuousness and spaciousness. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul Further on, they passed the silence of old temple walls, the spaciousness of pigeon-haunted cloisters, and the huge high-pitched roofs of the shrines, with their twisted horn-like points. Kimono Half-way up the ascent was a platform of more than ordinary spaciousness which contained a large reservoir, built of chipped stone strongly cemented, and brimming with limpid water. Overland The delicious sunset landscape has all the Giorgionesque elements, with more spaciousness, and lines of a still more suave harmony. The Earlier Work of Titian Coming in from the littered street, with its high smells and crowding, gesticulating people, the house impressed one by its quiet, its spaciousness, and the evident means and culture of its owner. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator The light and shade are cleverly handled, and the spaciousness of the scene is enhanced by the rows of columns and the apse of mosaics behind Solomon's head. Giorgione An Observation Post—or "O Pip," in the mysterious patois of the Buzzers—is not exactly the spot that one would select either for spaciousness or accessibility. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand The spaciousness of the market-place redeems the narrowness of the streets. Somerset The spaciousness of the house and the pleasant evenings spent cracking nuts and eating apples in front of the blazing fire-place were also revelations that filled his mind with many new thoughts. The Soul of a Child The houses of any pretension to comfortable spaciousness in the closely built parts of the town were all of the one, general, Spanish-American plan. The Grandissimes There the inornate beauty of its finish, the quiet abundance of its delicate woodwork, and the high spaciousness and continuity of its rooms for entertainment won admiration and fame. Kincaid's Battery Its scene is no longer little Whortley embedded among its trees, ruddy banks, parks and common land, but the grey spaciousness of West London. Love and Mr. Lewisham The interior is well proportioned and gains an air of great spaciousness from an unusually lofty chancel. Somerset After he had come through the second door, he entered a lightless room that gave an impression of immense spaciousness. The Runaway Asteroid Whatever gravity and spaciousness of aim there may be in our prosperous social life does not appear to him. An Englishman Looks at the World The massy spaciousness of the structure, and the solidity of its walls, strike the stranger who first beholds it with admiration. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 The dingified central tower and the spaciousness of the interior will be admired. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter It was once famous for its cloth, and the number of old houses which it possesses and its general appearance of spaciousness bear testimony to its former importance. Somerset There was something peculiarly restful in the spaciousness and stability, a place which the disagreeable or distressing things of life could not invade. The Visioning There was a certain elegance, a fine spaciousness about these artillery-men and their work which made one more content with war again. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them All these things were set in the immense cold spaciousness of the wild. The War in the Air The crude frontages of the new Government buildings alternated with the blank fencing of vacant plots, and the view of the sky seemed to give an added spaciousness to the broad vista. The End of the Tether You," I continued straight on,—"well, you have been accustomed to a certain spaciousness and luxury of life. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance But its spaciousness alone was enough to give me a sense of a fortunate escape, a momentary exultation of freedom. The Shadow Line; a confession She admired the way the mirror, without pretense of being anything but a mirror, enhanced the spaciousness of the room and doubled the pleasure it gave by offering another and different view of it. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise The tremendous spaciousness of it was glowing with rich gold. Of Human Bondage He extended his blue-tanned hand with that air of Oriental spaciousness which distinguishes the native-born American, and met the visitor's grasp expertly. Traffics and Discoveries Dropping his hand, she started on a search, through slanting doorways, by choked passages, across the illumined spaciousness of the wide, still rooms. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California There was no abrupt bursting in on Kawágama through screens of leaves; we entered leisurely to her presence by way of an ante-chamber whose spaciousness permitted no vulgar surprises. The Forest Fortunately, I could, with truth, give the preference to their convent, as to spaciousness and magnificence, over any I ever saw. Life in Mexico There was nothing home-like or comfortable in the house to atone for the smallness of the rooms, which seemed mere cells to Ida after the spaciousness of Mauleverer Manor and The Knoll. The Golden Calf Without doubt, nothing lends such magnificence to interiors as marbles, but they require the spaciousness and princeliness of such a château to be displayed to advantage. Holidays in Eastern France The Alston house had been cleaned and set in order from the cellar to the roof and in its dustless, shining spaciousness Lorry sat down and faced her duties. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Even the very character of the trees, though interesting to scientific research, chills, beneath the spaciousness of their shade, every poetical disposition. The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself In reading the "Paradise Lost" one has a feeling of spaciousness such as no other poet gives. Among My Books Second Series To Andrew, accustomed of late months to the greater spaciousness of English homes, it seemed small and confined and close. The Mountebank The peculiarity of this mound, in addition to its size, is the spaciousness of the central chamber. Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. In the splendour which proceeds from ordered uniformity and spaciousness, Paris is, of course, incomparable; while a Scotchman may perhaps be excused for holding that, as regards splendour of situation, Edinburgh is hard to beat. America To-day, Observations and Reflections He was an Elizabethan in the spaciousness of his mind, in his robust salt-water breeziness, in his hearty, spontaneous singing, and in his deification of the human will. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century I have said that one leading characteristic of Spenser's style was its spaciousness, that he habitually dilates rather than compresses. Among My Books Second Series Rumour having put the sum at their disposal at a high figure, their suggestions had certain spaciousness. The Adventures of Sally They got off the train, into the peace and spaciousness of open country. The Wishing-Ring Man Of this advantage the modern house-planner makes excellent use, and I have seen more than one quite modest family house which, without any sacrifice of comfort, gives one a sense of almost palatial spaciousness. America To-day, Observations and Reflections Without as well as within the church is spacious and impressive from its spaciousness; but it seems more densely fringed than most others with peddlers of post-cards and mosaic pins. Roman Holidays, and Others Standing at either end of the portico one obtains a remarkable impression of spaciousness combined with decorative completeness. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition It is the old story: Gothic intensity and Latin spaciousness. Old Calabria Its present family inhabited only a small part of it; and even this part appeared forlorn and almost desolate from the spaciousness of the apartments, and the length of the galleries which led to them. A Sicilian Romance In the living room, where spaciousness and repose are wanted, substantial, comfortable chairs, long, low sofas, cabinets and tables, and no fussy furniture adjuncts are demanded. How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration He didn't marry at once, as so many returning soldiers did; instead he was wedded to a vision of freedom, freedom of opinion, of spirit, worship—any kind of spaciousness whatever. Linda Condon It has an air of dignity and spaciousness which many a more portentous modern countryseat fail to match. Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain An effect which at first was one of quiet spaciousness became impressive and compelling. Over the Pass The gloom and spaciousness of Derwentwater, grey in the gathering dusk, suited his humour better than the emerald prettiness of Grasmere—the roar of the waterfall made music in his ear. Phantom Fortune, a Novel Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance: yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes The men stood aside as Linda, her head positively ringing with the thrill that was like a strain of Gluck, the happy sadness, entered the bare high spaciousness of Dodge Pleydon's workroom. Linda Condon In this splendid spaciousness the familiar forms seem incredibly diminutive. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough She closed the shutters on the sunny side and sat down by the window nearest the garden, peculiarly sensible of the soft light and cool spaciousness of an inner world. Over the Pass You know yourself what a magnificent place it is—that marvellous stage, the auditorium all in dark green satin, the seats like armchairs, the dressing rooms like boudoirs—the wonderful spaciousness of it! The Cinema Murder The single room seemed very small after the spaciousness of the Kachime, but it was the biggest ighloo in the settlement. The Magnetic North It was a little low, in spite of its spaciousness, and its three long windows opened in French fashion on to the garden. Esther : a book for girls Lee was standing with her by the piano, and the others were around the fireplace in the farther spaciousness. Cytherea The spaciousness of the sea under clouds of battle smoke had melted into the spaciousness of the desert under the Eternal Painter's canopy. Over the Pass It was round, and small enough to escape giving any cold hint of spaciousness. The Little Lady of the Big House I went, musing on her possible fates, towards the pride and spaciousness of Fifth Avenue. Letters from America It is a small shabby, homely dwelling, with a certain reputable solidity, however, and more of internal spaciousness than of outside promise. Italian Hours The spaciousness of great imagination is seldom in it, and it lacks those grand and simple conceptions which generalize upon the human race. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism In order to avoid the necessity of building a fireproof building, the open hail was adopted, with its inviting spaciousness, and two lower enclosing wings at the side. The Art of the Exposition It was a healthy leanness, Smoke decided, as he noted the wide flare of the nostrils and the breadth and depth of chest that gave spaciousness to the guaranty of oxygen and life. Smoke Bellew The prospect was well worth her attention, with its blue and green and gold, its wood and water, its misty-blushing snows, its spaciousness and its atmosphere. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box The spaciousness of some of those ancient drawing-rooms is that of a Russian steppe. Italian Hours But not in the midst of their beauty and spaciousness was she married. Without a Home Its outside is dull and sombre-looking, but its interior comfort and spaciousness soon dispel any misgivings which its exterior might have created. The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, Linda's home was a shingled brown eight-room house, built in the first years of the century, and consequently showing the simplicity and spaciousness that were unknown in the architecture of the eighties. Harriet and the Piper It was as if these young exiles had brought from their southern homes something of leisure, something of spaciousness and pure sweetness that the more sophisticated youth of the city lacked. Undertow It was a great ball and it was a great ballroom—in spaciousness, color, and appointments. Kennedy Square We have even been criticized for our lack of spaciousness in hanging, but let us not grieve over this, since it does at least save steps in walking from one picture to the next. The Galleries of the Exposition I have pointed out how the imagination of men has sought and found in certain personalities, historical or fictitious, a bridge between the blood-warm private life and the intolerable spaciousness of right and wrong. First and Last Things And ruling the calm spaciousness of that heaven was the great comet, now green-white, and wonderful for all who had eyes to see. In the Days of the Comet The continental spaciousness and energy which foreign critics thought they discovered in Whitman is not characteristic of our poetry as a whole. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Our Empire is greater now in spaciousness than ever before, but our strength to hold it has ebbed low because of much death, and a strain too long endured, and strangling debts. Now It Can Be Told No one, however, but himself, was in these chambers, and, leaving open the doors, through which he passed, he came again to the great drawing-room, whose spaciousness and silent gloom somewhat awed him. The Mysteries of Udolpho But the spaciousness and orderly furnishing of his mind provided that no pursuit of knowledge should be a digression for him. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Large as the chimney appears upon the roof, that is nothing to its spaciousness below. I and My Chimney On a planet there were spaciousness and freedom and after the claustrophobic confinement of a hyper ship any world was paradise. The Lani People It was an enormous building of the Renaissance, not beautiful, but impressive in its spaciousness and dignity. Now It Can Be Told Frequently, as we emerge from the shelter of a cove or inlet, I am suddenly conscious of the spaciousness of the air about me. The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy It was a nobly proportioned room that he entered, so large that, in spite of the amount of old furniture it contained, the first impression it gave was one of spaciousness. His Own People Fearfully and wonderfully made as is the whole of human nature, that fear and that wonder surpass themselves in the spaciousness and the copiousness of the human heart. Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) We did live in feudal spaciousness in those days. On the Makaloa Mat In the spaciousness of the Grande Place at Ypres my friend and I stood like the last men on earth in a city of buried life. Now It Can Be Told The kitchen hearth had an old-fashioned breadth, depth, and spaciousness, far within which lay what seemed the butt of a good-sized oak-tree, with the moisture bubbling merrily out at both ends. The Blithedale Romance A woman, whose hut was distinguished by greater spaciousness and better architecture, brought out some pails of milk. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland The spaciousness and gloom of this vast edifice produce a profound and mysterious awe. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Its spaciousness, extended indefinitely by an effect of obscurity, rendered more sensible his profound isolation. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard It seems as if it might be the dark of the day after Cain killed Abel, and as if all of humanity's remainder was huddled in affright away from the awful spaciousness of Creation. The Shape of Fear It is the way of cub reporters, city newspapers, and flat-floor populations which get their thrills from moving pictures and for which the real world and all its spaciousness does not exist. Michael, Brother of Jerry Under the circumstances, with my wife and babies and a couple of lodgers suffering from the too great spaciousness of one room, taking a bath in a tin wash-basin would be an unfeasible undertaking. The People of the Abyss He could have seen that she had a spirit with a natural love of liberty, and required the next thing to liberty, spaciousness, if she was to own allegiance. The Egoist There was something else I liked, which I did not recognise then, something surrounding all her movements, a graciousness, a spaciousness: I did not analyse it; but I know now that it was her youth. The Crock of Gold Thro' the loud spaciousness and draughty gloom A small, strange child—so aged yet so young! Poems And Kwaque, too awed by the spaciousness to speak, eloquently rolled his eyes in agreement. Michael, Brother of Jerry We, therefore, with a sure instinctive mind, An equal spaciousness of bondage find In confines far or near, of air or our own kind. Poems In her way, allowing for the difference of a generation, her desire for spaciousness was as strong as her Uncle Will's. The Valley of the Moon The lower half of the forest jungle, however, had no spaciousness at all, but a certain breathless intimacy. The Land of Footprints I had mastered the flesh, and the spaciousness of time was mine to wander in, while my poor flesh, not even suffering, lay in the little death in the jacket. The Jacket (Star-Rover) Daughtry, himself moulded on generously careless lines, could not but appreciate the spaciousness of the Ancient Mariner, who had evidently lived spaciously and who was ever for sharing the treasure they sought. Michael, Brother of Jerry It soon became manifest that my opening and my general spaciousness of method bored my audiences a good deal. The New Machiavelli Saxon looked back across the fields to the hills and sky, breathing the spaciousness of it, the freedom, the content. The Valley of the Moon They stood out clear and dazzling against a background of starry blackness that seemed to our earthly eyes rather a gloriously spangled velvet curtain than the spaciousness of the sky. The First Men in the Moon There was a freedom about it, a wide spaciousness that she found herself instinctively trying to breathe, holding her arms out to embrace and make part of herself. The Valley of the Moon |
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