How To Use Constancy In A Sentence

The need to respond to good with good, to generosity with generosity, constancy in her affections, patience and love of work are qualities that have been with Lena since childhood.
However, all of these points of constancy and change are brought to light for the most part due to the extreme redundancy of the film's fades and the organisational role they play.
The hotel stands on the shore of lake constancy.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce
They refer to these processes as ‘dissipative structures’, where a constancy of change enables the persistence of the structure itself.

Unpredictability and inconstancy in parenting is one very important factor affecting a child negatively.
A parenting network can create a constancy of love one person can not generate.
In fact, metrology is concerned with nothing less than finding a method of being able to control the constancy of the international prototype metre, the basis of the whole metric system, so accurately that not only will every change, however small, which could possibly occur in it be accurately measured, but also if the prototype were entirely lost, it could nevertheless be reproduced so exactly that no microscope could ever reveal any divergence from the original prototype. Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Presentation Speech
It also depends on the constancy of its rate; meaning, that a watch gains or loses the exact same amount of time each day.
He kept in by being an oak, not by being a willow, by a constancy in virtue, not by a pliableness to vice. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Hermia was looking at him and wondering at his strange inconstancy.
For we must now take into account an exceptionally plastic evolutionary overlay which yields a constantly moving target, an extended cognitive architecture whose constancy lies mainly in its continual openness to change.
And when she does, your constancy will have its just reward.
No one has ever equalled him in quickness and depth of musical insight and feeling, nor in the constancy with which he bears within himself, in all its fulness, that mysterious power which can be called by no truer name than _musical inspiration_. Music and Some Highly Musical People
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
These examples of the old and the new exemplify both constancy and change within American religion. American Grace
Neither do monetary policy measures publicized under the heading of stabilization imply a constancy of purchasing power.
They are supposed to be changeless and are believed to reflect an underlying constancy of nature.
We journeyed together, flawed, failing, but always aiming at constancy, at presentness, at openness to grace. Times, Sunday Times
Believing in the other person - extending trust - helps to create and sustain constancy and trustworthiness.
The history of Monmouth would alone suffice to refute the Imputation of inconstancy which is so frequently thrown on the common people. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
Faithfulness, dedication, constancy and humility are some of the virtues needed to pray well.
The Christian concept of passive heroism places a high value on endurance, which in Shakespeare's ethic is cognate with constancy and hence with truth.
This interesting paper shows that this illusion "automatically" occurs as a by-product when an artificial neural network is trained for brightness constancy.
Thank the flame for its light, but do not forget the lampholder standing in the shade with constancy of patience. Stray Birds
It's the constancy of calls, the harassed and troubled nature of people on the phone, people are very impatient, they are very abusive of operators.
The world, as it has been, is and will be constant in inconstancy; for Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
I admired Catherine greatly for her constancy and sweet-tempered attitude about life.
The only controls that can be employed in these studies are the use of valid research instruments, constancy of condition, and accurate conceptual and operational definitions of the research variables.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration of myself, I bid you all an affectionate farewell.
Or dost thou, the habitant of some bright star, where frailty such as ours is yet unknown, lend to lovers a rapture unalloyed by passion's grosser sense; as, symphonious with the tremulous zephyr, chastened vows of constancy are there exchanged? A Love Story
Hence the inconstancy which is opposed thereto is to be reckoned a daughter of lust. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Hormonal mechanisms normally maintain a near-constant concentration of free calcium, but the constancy depends also on that of the pH (relative acidity/alkalinity) of the blood.
After much consideration he could derive this behaviour from nothing better than a capriciousness in his friend's temper, from a kind of inconstancy of mind, which makes men grow weary of their friends with no more reason than they often are of their mistresses. Amelia — Complete
For example, the development and maintenance of a significant relationship over time requires constancy or commitment.
It is the end of art to give the superior life of form to that which has it not; and finally, this superior life of form, this magic wand of style, rhythmic as verse and terse as science, by firmly establishing the thing it touches, withdraws it from that law of change, constant in its inconstancy, which is the miserable condition of existence. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
And, notwithstanding Santayana's too-often repeated mot about forgetfulness and history repeating, it is sometimes possible to see in such repetition not error or futility but constancy.
On Ascension Eve, May 16th, Wenceslaus, after a final and fruitless attempt to alter the constancy of the faithful priest, the king ordered him to be cast into the river. Hymns of St. John Nepomucene
Of course, he does not remain faithful to all of the principles contained therein, however much he repeatedly emphasizes his trueness and constancy, but the essential goals remain the same.
The invincible firmness and constancy of the saint appeared in the recovery of the revenues of the curacies and other benefices which had been given to the Orders of St. Lazarus and St. Maurice; the restoration of which, after many difficulties, he effected by the joint authority of the pope and the duke of Savoy. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Traditionally associated with durability and constancy, here the vivid green pre-patinated copper is intended to make a bolder statement.
This is the thing which some fools call fickleness; but which is not the death of feeling, but rather its dreadful perpetuation; this shyness is the final seal of strong sentiment; this coldness is an eternal constancy. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
‘I know the inconstancy of the people of England,’ she observed privately in 1561, ‘how they ever mislike the present government and have their eyes fixed upon that person who is next to succeed.’
Never doubt the constancy of my love for you.
In short, the second type of scrutiny, which is very essential in the criticism of traditions, relates to the constancy and perpetuity of the chain of narrators.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce
From this kind of concatenated metre he afterwards refrained, and taught his followers the art of concluding their sense in couplets; which has, perhaps, been with rather too much constancy pursued. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
Again, while he has the utmost of moral stability and constancy, and also great firmness of intellectual adhesion to main principles, there is in him a certain minor changefulness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
Would you call it inconstancy on their part to seek it wherever it might be found? The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
With no dramatic surprises of fortune, and no great sorrows, his life had scarce any other alternation than that it went round with the earth through night and day, and would have been tame but for his necessary labor in an art which he loved wisely and with the untumultuous sentiment of an after-honey-moon constancy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
In the sphere of parenting, the important values are affection, constancy, appreciation and love for its own sake.
'of our constancy (as men may promise) till our lives end; yea, farther, we will divulgate and set abroad a charge and commandment to our posterity, that the amity and league between you and us contracted and begun in Christ Jesus may by them be kept inviolated for ever.' John Knox
The theory of relativity hinges on the constancy of the speed of light.
Second, stability does not imply fixity or constancy.
She thinks, indeed, but little of anything except with reference to herself, and what gives her an air, and will give her a character, for inconstancy, that is in fact the mere result of seeking her own gratification alike in meeting or avoiding her connexions. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
A good way to break down hierarchies - but how free can they stand, given the inconstancy of progressive funding and radical intervention?
They worship with great vigor and devotion, with unstinting regularity and constancy.
Second, stability does not imply fixity or constancy.
The emotions they played on were consonant, at least implicitly, with ideas of spirituality and constancy, of emptiness and isolation.
This approximate constancy suggests that mature cell length may be regulated to fall within a preferred range.
Putting it in simple words, the homeostatic systems (The term homeostasis was first used by Walter Bradford Cannon in the beginning of 20th Century, to describe the maintenance of constancy in the physical Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Hatred of the Count, mortified self - love, and the resolution to vanquish what he termed the whim of a peevish beauty, would inevitably have precipitated her into difficulties most disastrous, if happily the inconstancy of his nature had not in the end relieved her from his persecution. Rosamund, Countess of Clarenstein ...
Thus there is both a suitableness and a constancy in the workings of the heart.
Some also have bought a name revered to future ages at the price of a glorious death; some by invincible constancy under their sufferings have afforded an example to others that virtue cannot be overcome by calamity -- all which things, without doubt, come to pass rightly and in due order, and to the benefit of those to whom they are seen to happen. The Consolation of Philosophy
In order to account for the constancy of the speed of light, Einstein had to accept that moving clocks run more slowly than stationary clocks and that moving objects shrink in the direction of their motion.
Machiavelli's suggestion, for example, that a prince "not deviate from what is good, if possible, but be able to do evil if constrained," must be appreciated in context. 140 Although political and military leaders were exhorted to virtues of constancy and temperance, the late quattrocento (and early cinquecento) was not a juste milieu, as Machiavelli illustrates: Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
He was said chief by reason of the principality in prelation; a stone by reason of his steadfastness in his passion; blaming with his mouth by reason of constancy in his preaching. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
* Was it necessary that the active gloom of such a tyrant of a father, should commix with such a passive sweetness of a will-less mother, to produce a constancy, an equanimity, a steadiness, in the daughter, which never woman before could boast of? Clarissa Harlowe
_Saturn_ be content; for the upper light gives occasion thereunto, having generated an unfixt Body of _Saturn_, penetrated with open pores, that the Air can pass through this _Saturnine_ Body, that the Air can keep it aloft, but the fire can quickly assault it, because the body is not compact by reason of its unfixedness, so that it must decay, which must be in all points observed by him that will attain to the search of it; for there is a great difference between the fix'd and unfix'd bodies, and of the causes of their Constancy and Inconstancy. Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.
The family and productive work: these are the two pivots of society; they rest upon the greatest volitive quality: constancy, or persistence. Spontaneous Activity in Education
By the end of the play, the very qualities he considers to be virtuous - sacrificial piety, constancy, and militarism - are those that lead to tragedy.
The secret to success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli
‘I know the inconstancy of the people of England,’ she observed privately in 1561, ‘how they ever mislike the present government and have their eyes fixed upon that person who is next to succeed.’
Only Ebie Fairrish, struck to the heart by the inconstancy of Jess, removed at the November term back again to the "laigh end" of the parish, and there plunged madly into flirtations with several of his old sweethearts. The Lilac Sunbonnet
early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds
A certain school of philosophy -- if we may give that name to the systematic neglect of reason -- has so immersed itself in the contemplation of this sort of inconstancy, which is indeed prevalent enough in the world, that it has mistaken it for a normal and necessary process. The Life of Reason
But upon the introduction of the new principle of grace and holiness in our sanctification, this habit of sin is weakened, impaired, and so disenabled as that it cannot nor shall incline unto sin with that constancy and prevalency as formerly, nor press unto it ordinarily with the same urgency and violence. Pneumatologia
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
She'd no sooner imagined constancy than a rogue element she'd almost forgotten came into view. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce
The role played by constancy consists chiefly in patiently bearing misfortunes for which there is no remedy. Kenny Rogers and Michel de Montaigne Separated at Birth? « So Many Books
Moreover, his inconstancy is a proof of his rashness, because he is soon displeased with himself for what he has done. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
Because it seems to me there has to be a constancy and consistency in the agricultural policy.
From a dog you get stolid clear-eyed constancy: we belong together and that's how it is.
St. Gertrude was once saying the Divine Office with the other virgins of her monastery, and was striving to pronounce every word attentively, but since she was often distracted through human infirmity, she said mournfully to herself, "And what fruit can be derived from this endeavour, which is combined with so much inconstancy? Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois
The quality of the songs across the album is even, lending strength to the album's constancy, but there are standouts.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Sometimes he suffered incision and cauteries with so great constancy as never to be seen so much as to wince. The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 12
It also depends on the constancy of its rate; meaning, that a watch gains or loses the exact same amount of time each day.
It will be a long, slow and tedious process requiring patience and constancy of purpose.
In my view he is less a figure of his age than one above it, characterized by his constancy and the ritual repetition of certain themes.
No single measure of evenness remains constant over all statistical distributions, so if constancy as a type of independence is required, the appropriate distribution must first be determined.
Jackson himself did not wholly understand the reasons for his unusual constancy. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
His view was based on the fact that the capital value of a let investment was dependent upon the expectation and constancy of a net rental income, adjusted for landlord's liabilities (if any).
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic and incapacity to reason.
Notwithstanding these signs of bodily fatigue and excessive—even morbid—cerebration, there could be seen in the cast of my features—in the set of my Ups and the expression emanating from my eyes—a marked constancy of purpose. Nevermore
To have backtracked on a finding to which he was signed up would have been crass and would have exposed him to accusations of inconstancy.
With one exception, and that doubtful -- for a man may be weak and may not be brave without being a bad man or even king -- every bearer of this fated name laboured with courage and constancy at the great work of elevating his country. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
It must be a confession of his inconstancy and confirm their separation forever.
Some also have bought a name revered to future ages at the price of a glorious death; some by invincible constancy under their sufferings have afforded an example to others that virtue cannot be overcome by calamity — all which things, without doubt, come to pass rightly and in due order, and to the benefit of those to whom they are seen to happen. Consolation of Philosophy
As a woman who had chosen not to marry, Leapor looked for constancy primarily in relation to friendship.
More than most places, its history is marked by a regularity of tyranny and violence - no doubt the legacy of successive invasions and a corresponding inconstancy of rulers.
He wondered how much of what he felt for Lindsay was born of her constancy, the reflection of her devotion to him. A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
The samples were kept for 10 mins to ensure the attainment of thermal equilibrium, confirmed by the constancy of the duplicity.
The chastest constancy will I ever preserve to thy image. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Degas did so with all the rigor, intensity and constancy of the young coryphées rehearsing new steps.
Shakespeare did not think of constancy as a psychosexual characteristic allied to masochism, but rather as an earthly manifestation of divine love, which is beyond gender.
Words traverse the page with the constancy and steadiness of footsteps.
Its stability does not, therefore, depend on the presence of developmental constraints or constancy of the environment in which the organisms live.
'Reptilia' -- the class which exhibits the largest proportion of entirely extinct forms of any one type, -- that of the 'Crocodilia', has persisted from at least the commencement of the Mesozoic epoch up to the present time with so much constancy, that the amount of change which it exhibits may fairly, in relation to the time which has elapsed, be called insignificant. Lectures and Essays
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Those moving away were sometimes dismissed as a shiftless lot who could not live up to the small-town virtues of constancy and forbearance.
With unfailing constancy tomorrow becomes yet another today, full and hectic with characteristically unforgiving demands which brazenly refuse to be postponed.
Old Delashelwilt and his women still remain they have formed a camp near the fort and seem to be determined to lay close sege to us but I beleive notwithstanding every effort of their wining graces, the men have preserved their constancy to the vow of celibacy which they made on this occasion to Capt C. and myself. we have had our perogues prepared for our departer, and shal set out as soon as the weather will permit. the weather is so precarious that we fear by waiting untill the first of April that we might be detained several days longer before we could get from this to the Cathlahmahs as it must be calm or we cannot accomplish that part of our rout. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Inconstancy of life is the constant theme in Chinese and Japanese literary classics.
I also admire his constancy and how though I might not agree with him he sticks to his guns.
Then I guess you jet - sitting fancy free bustards need that kind of constancy splashy reassurance.
Blamers to prudence me exhort; I heed them not, for I In my avouchment am sincere of love and constancy. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
'of our constancy (as men may promise) till our lives end; yea, farther, we will divulgate and set abroad a charge and commandment to our posterity, that the amity and league between you and us contracted and begun in Christ Jesus may by them be kept inviolated for ever.' John Knox
Although Leapor accepts that many women are guilty of inconstancy and immoderate behaviour, she none the less holds out the prospect of transformation.
But there was a dogged constancy of feeling about Maurice which could not allow him to disburden himself of his love. Tales of all countries
Jehannot, who expected a farre contrary conclusion then this, hearing him speake it with such constancy; was the very gladdest man in the world, and went with him to the Church of Nostre Dame in The Decameron
``Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: / Inconstancy hath unnaturally begot / A constant habit. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Swiss is as safe by his side as an eaglet under the wings of its dam; and to leave us because danger approaches, is but a poor compliment to our courage or constancy. Anne of Geierstein
Yet, despite such constancy and faithfulness on God's part, humanity has not responded with the same love toward him.
Of course, he does not remain faithful to all of the principles contained therein, however much he repeatedly emphasizes his trueness and constancy, but the essential goals remain the same.
That generation's flaws only served to highlight her constancy and dedication.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
After Diomedes leaves, Cressida speaks in dismay of her own inconstancy, while, unseen, Thersites comments cynically on the whole interview.
Given the assumed constancy of the speed of light, the calculations required to show that result are quite simple.
I've learned that it's unwise to depend entirely upon the constancy of man.
In short, the second type of scrutiny, which is very essential in the criticism of traditions, relates to the constancy and perpetuity of the chain of narrators.
The wretched Sampson took a few short sips of the liquor, which immediately distilled itself into burning tears, and in that form came rolling down his cheeks into the pipkin again, turning the colour of his face and eyelids to a deep red, and giving rise to a violent fit of coughing, in the midst of which he was still heard to declare, with the constancy of a martyr, that it was ‘beautiful indeed!’ The Old Curiosity Shop
``Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: / Inconstancy hath unnaturally begot / A constant habit. THE CALLIGRAPHER
Such people deserve no pity; for, after all, inconstancy is unpardonable. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
I think it's hard to imagine that a part of human nature isn't to actually seek some sort of sense and order, some sense of constancy in our world which otherwise becomes unworkable if it's totally unpredictable and unknowable.
We perceive a return to it, as it were, in the early phases of development of the highest organised of the actually existing species, or we ought rather to say that development starts from the old point; and thus, in regard to the scapula, we can explain the constancy of its first appearance close to the head, whether in the human embryo or in that of the swan, also its vertical position to the axis of the spinal column, by its general homology as the rib or 'pleurapophysis' of the occipital vertebra" (_Limbs_, p. 56). Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
It also depends on the constancy of its rate; meaning, that a watch gains or loses the exact same amount of time each day.
Her readiness to drop everything for him offered constancy to a man prone to bouts of introspection and feelings of inadequacy.
He proceeded in the main on the assumption that the forms of bacteria as met with and described by him are practically constant, at any rate within limits which are not wide: observing that a minute spherical micrococcus or a rod-like bacillus regularly produced similar micrococci and bacilli respectively, he based his classification on what may be considered the constancy of forms which he called species and genera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Tartarus; it was not so delicious at first, as now it is bitter and harsh; a cankered soul macerated with cares and discontents, taedium vitae, impatience, agony, inconstancy, irresolution, precipitate them unto unspeakable miseries. Anatomy of Melancholy
Fixed exchange rates provided a source of constancy, and governments were no longer allowed to use competitive depreciations to promote exports.
The regulation of body fluid and the constancy of the internal environment is the primary role of the kidneys.

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