How To Use Distinctness In A Sentence
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The author makes up the shortcoming of the relator's absence with ingenious narrative tactics. And she uses Scout as narrative subject to strengthen the work's authenticity and distinctness.
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The problem seems to be that the supervenience definition of physicalism in effect presupposes something like Hume's dictum, in that it uses failure of necessitation as a test for distinctness.
Physicalism
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There is, I believe, no composition in the whole world that shows with the same distinctness the soul torn by tragic conflict; especially in the third part of the Sonata, the _Presto-agitato_.
Without Dogma
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Maw Moss; and, fading into blue indistinctness in the south, the wild heath-clad Peeblesshire hills.
Lay Morals
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He blushed a little, shook his head at her, and drove on ahead into the streets — the churches, the abbey, and other buildings on this clear bright morning having the liny distinctness of architectural drawings, as if the original dream and vision of the conceiving master-mason, some mediaeval Vilars or other unknown to fame, were for a few minutes flashed down through the centuries to an unappreciative age.
The Woodlanders
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One, namely the distinctness of specific forms, and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty.
X. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record. On the Absence of Intermediate Varieties at the Present Day
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There is undoubtedly a divide across Europe, a sense of distinctness, which defies analysis in political or geographical terms.
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In his precritical period he had still been intent upon settling the “distinctness of the fundamental principles of natural theology and morals” by placing teleology at the center of his argu - ment.
THEODICY
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Or, rather, those drunken scorners who in stammering style imitated Isaiah's warnings to mock them [Maurer] (Isa 28: 7-11, 13, 14, 22; 29: 20); in this view, translate, "speak uprightly" (agreeably to the divine law); not as English Version, referring to the distinctness of articulation, "plainly.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Like the Lower Old Red Sandstones of Cromarty and Moray, the red arenaceous strata occur in thick beds, separated from each other by bands of a grayish-colored stratified clay, on the planes of which I could trace with great distinctness ripple markings; but in vain did I explore their numerous folds for the plates, scales, and fucoid impressions which abound in the gray argillaceous beds of the shores of the Moray and Cromarty Friths.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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Here strikes the distinctness for any traveller.
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Nor must I omit to note the right position of the lance, to lessen as far as possible the risk of mutual interference. 55 Each trooper should hold his lance straight between the ears of his charger, which in proportion to the distinctness given to the weapon will rouse terror, and at the same time create a vague idea of multitudinousness. 56
The Cavalry General
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A Scumble is generally a tint made of some colour mixed with white; its usual effect is to render the part of the picture where it is employed, somewhat cooler, grayer, and less defined than before; hence it is of great service in connecting any tendency to muddiness or dirtiness of colouring; and also to what is called hardness, or over-distinctness of detail.
Scumbling
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Though Astell maintains that all beliefs are dubitable, as they lack self-evidence as well as clarity and distinctness, she holds that objects of faith can share the elevated epistemic status maintained by intuitions and objects of science:
Mary Astell
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Only too clearly he remembered the first time he and Beatrice had been thrust into this weird community, bound and captive; with only too vivid distinctness he recalled the frightful indignities, perils and hardships inflicted on them.
Darkness and Dawn
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Her very words had a sort of distinctness which is sometimes produced by sharp, bodily pain.
Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
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This was the newsreaders' era; their faces became familiar even though there was no distinctness in them.
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interfused" with the world, which is full of stubborn distinctness, but permeating it through and through, "curled inextricably round about" all its beauty and its power, [92] "intertwined" with earth's lowliest existence, and thrilling with answering rapture to every throb of life.
Robert Browning
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The sower is the only one that can be compared with it in comprehensive completeness of outline and articulate distinctness of detail.
The Parables of Our Lord
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The Affections cannot be analyzed and comprehended with the same kind of distinctness with which we comprehend Thought and Imagination; because that which belongs to the Understanding can be expressed or described in words, and in that form be passed from one to another; while the
The Elements of Character
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The common honeysuckle, _Lonicera Periclymenum_, is one of these, and it is noticeable in this plant that the calyx remains unaffected -- a circumstance which Morren says shows the distinctness of virescence from frondescence; for, in this instance, we have the most foliaceous portion of the flower remaining unchanged, while the corolla and other organs, usually less leaf-like in their nature, assume a green colour; but this may rather be attributed to the axial nature of the so-called adherent calyx.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Pathfinder_ and T.oreau; the scent of the soil, once again, in rain and in shine, is it not conveyed to us with an astonishing distinctness, that is the product of a literary endowment of the rarest order, by such writers as Izaak Walton and Robert Burns, and among recent writers in varying degrees by Richard Jefferies and by Barnes, by T. E.
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825
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The term "epiphenomenon" has been adopted to express the distinctness but entire dependence of the mind.
The Approach to Philosophy
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Even now ‘a sense of cultural distinctness remains politically relevant’.
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Children are left uninterrupted, undistracted, unbothered; their distinctness and separateness are respected.
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D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
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The author makes up the shortcoming of the relator's absence with ingenious narrative tactics. And she uses Scout as narrative subject to strengthen the work's authenticity and distinctness.
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In addition, such distinctness enhances the between-group variance so essential to group selection and emergence of a higher-level unit.
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In the constitutional debate, our obsession with the arithmetic of equalization and the vocabulary of "distinctness" has obscured the importance of this moral dimension, the dimension of justice.
Making It in the New Economy
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The tremendous moral power of this solitary work lies in the fact that it is a series of terrific and fascinating tableaux, embodying the idea of inflexible poetic justice impartially administered upon king and varlet, pope and beggar, oppressor and victim, projected amidst the unalterable necessities of eternity, and moving athwart the lurid abyss and the azure cope with an intense distinctness that sears the gazer's eyeballs.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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And now the engineer pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness.
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Like a man who is drowning, and close to death, he saw with surprising distinctness a kaleidoscopic view of his past life.
The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life
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The sections given as_ 227 -- 231 _ "On indistinctness at short distances" have, it is true, only an indirect bearing on the subject; but on the other hand, the following chapters, _ 232 -- 234, _ "On indistinctness at great distances," go fully into the matter, and in chapters_
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete
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Opposite to confusedness of ideas is distinctness.
Antoine Arnauld
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These proceed from imagination and affection, and abate somewhat of the angular distinctness of objects.
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In general, causation is to be understood as an increase in distinctness on the part of the causally active substance, and an increase in confusedness on the part of the passively effected substance.
Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind
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Her head was raised, and in the indistinctness I caught that sweet look of hers which besought me, and which I answered without knowing to what question.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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The opening phrases of both octave and sestette are very fine; but the second quatrain and the second terzina, though with a quality of beauty, both seem somewhat to lack distinctness.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Were it true, they would have been able to have traced the progress of the Christolatry from the lowest sort of 'Christodulia' with the same historical distinctness against the universal Church, that the Protestants have that of hierolatry against the Romanists.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The demonstration of genetic distinctness, or genetic differentiation, between samples from natural populations, especially in areas of sympatry, is often used as a criterion to erect new species.
