How To Use Grossness In A Sentence
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It may be; but the German love of food is not necessarily a sign of grossness, and that "overfed" appearance, of which the
Reflections and Comments 1865-1895
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Gassendi, on the other hand, relied upon the grossness and com - plicated shapes of the atoms of hard bodies to account for firmness, the branches and sharp parts becoming interlaced and making movement difficult, if not im - possible.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Heaven forbid that this child should ever be tainted by the grossness of the world!
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To do it in ANY way was an act of violence, for what did it consist of but the obtrusion of the idea of grossness and guilt on a small helpless creature who had been for me a revelation of the possibilities of beautiful intercourse?
The Turn of the Screw
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What you can't see in this shot is that my feet are actually cut, and (for additional grossness) I can pump up my extensor digitorum brevis muscle so that it's ripped and the veins over it pop.
Total carnage! i love it!
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The difficulty Ducis felt about translating Othello in consequence of the importance given to such a vulgar thing as a handkerchief, and his attempt to soften its grossness by making the M.or reiterate 'Le bandeau! le bandeau!' may be taken as an example of the difference between la tragedie philosophique and the drama of real life; and the introduction for the first time of the word mouchoir at the Theatre Francais was an era in that romantic - realistic movement of which Hugo is the father and M. Zola the enfant terrible, just as the classicism of the earlier part of the century was emphasised by Talma's refusal to play Greek heroes any longer in a powdered periwig -- one of the many instances, by the way, of that desire for archaeological accuracy in dress which has distinguished the great actors of our age.
Intentions
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Heaven forbid that this child should ever be tainted by the grossness of the world!
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She had never been tormented by womanhood, and she had lived in a dreamland of Tennysonian poesy, dense even to the full significance of that delicate master's delicate allusions to the grossnesses that intrude upon the relations of queens and knights.
Chapter 14
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A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
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But those were relatively minor compared to a completely unexpected miracle of self-control circuits: their ability to extract precision from grossness .
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The mischief of a libel does not always consist in its grossness; on the contrary, when its bitterness is muffled in the garb of innuendo and latent allusion the malicious purpose is more galling for feelings to the wounded party.
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Of the obstinate effort to bring about an armed intervention, on the lines marked out by Russells letter to Palmerston from Gotha, 17 September, 1862, nothing could be said beyond Gladstones plea in excuse for his speech in pursuance of the same effort, that it was the most singular and palpable error, the least excusable, a mistake of incredible grossness, which passed defence; but while Gladstone threw himself on the mercy of the public for his speech, he attempted no excuse for Lord Russell who led him into the incredible grossness of announcing the Foreign Secretarys intent.
The Battle of the Rams (1863)
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To do it in any way was an act of violence, for what did it consist of but the obtrusion of the idea of grossness and guilt on a small helpless creature who had been for me a revelation of the possibilities of beautiful intercourse?
The Turn of the Screw
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It would be too simple to call grossness the last (or the next) frontier, although some critics out there will, but
GreenCine Daily
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Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
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And, for the usual method of teaching _Arts_, I deem it to be an old error of Universities, not yet well recovered from the scholastic grossness of barbarous ages, that, instead of beginning with Arts most easy (and these be such as are most obvious to the sense), they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of Logic and
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
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Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
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She just lied in her throat and we all realized toe grossness of her false utterance.
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Of the obstinate effort to bring about an armed intervention, on the lines marked out by Russells letter to Palmerston from Gotha, 17 September, 1862, nothing could be said beyond Gladstones plea in excuse for his speech in pursuance of the same effort, that it was the most singular and palpable error, the least excusable, a mistake of incredible grossness, which passed defence; but while Gladstone threw himself on the mercy of the public for his speech, he attempted no excuse for Lord Russell who led him into the incredible grossness of announcing the Foreign Secretarys intent.
The Battle of the Rams (1863)
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All these things were so perfectly imitated, that you seemed to have the genuine article before you, and yet with an indescribable, ideal charm; it took away the grossness from what was fleshiest and fattest, and thus helped the life of man, even in its earthliest relations, to appear rich and noble, as well as warm, cheerful, and substantial.
The Blithedale Romance
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He could feel the pin feathers, and the grossness of its shape.
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Stupefactives induce a kind of drunkenness by the grossness of their vapour.
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Judges expect a Clydesdale to look handsome, weighty and powerful, but with a gaiety of carriage and outlook, so that the impression is given of quality and weight, rather than grossness and bulk.
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I calmy walked out of the elevator and into the bathroom, where I washed my hands clean, and attempted to clean out my purse filled with raw egg grossness.
Archive 2009-05-01
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But those were relatively minor compared to a completely unexpected miracle of self-control circuits: their ability to extract precision from grossness .
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Mary is the love of beauty, or of God; the bramble is the stupidity and grossness of the practical world.
Personality in Literature
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ANY way was an act of violence, for what did it consist of but the obtrusion of the idea of grossness and guilt on a small helpless creature who had been for me a revelation of the possibilities of beautiful intercourse?
The Turn of the Screw
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We live in a world soiled by the grossness and wickedness and filth of sin.
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They argue that Shakespeare's coarseness is the result of the age and not personal predilection, completely ignoring the work of men like Sir Philip Sidney and Spenser, indeed practically all the pre-Shakespearean writers, in whom none of this so-called grossness exists.
Lysistrata
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Yet even here the grossness is but little more pronounced than what we find in our old drama (e. g.,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Some share may also have been contributed by the Platonic notion of the "grossness" or "bruteness" of tangible matter, -- a notion which has survived in Christian theology, and which educated men of the present day have by no means universally outgrown.
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
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But those were relatively minor compared to a completely unexpected miracle of self-control circuits: their ability to extract precision from grossness .
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Thus all is purged from the grossness of sense, from the carking cares and foul vices of the World; and rides there, on its Clothes-horse; as, on a Pegasus, might some skyey Messenger, or purified Apparition, visiting our low Earth.
The Obama-Spears-Hilton photo-op.
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We live in a world soiled by the grossness and wickedness and filth of sin.
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I realize, of course, that I should not have been competing in adult company so long as I failed to appreciate the grossness of these improprieties.
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Thus all is purged from the grossness of sense, from the carking cares and foul vices of the World; and rides there, on its Clothes-horse; as, on a Pegasus, might some skyey Messenger, or purified Apparition, visiting our low Earth.
The Obama-Spears-Hilton photo-op.
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So one may not want to show up the simoniac rector before his own congregation (and the celebrants 'friends and relatives) not only because it makes the Church, which is divine, look bad, but also because Father Stock might go to pieces when his grossness becomes widely known and fall prey to the devil through despair.
Waiting for God in Inglenook
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With succeeding Lord Horror works, each one aims to out-do the preceding one in grossness.
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
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Crass suggests a grossness of mind precluding discrimination or delicacy.
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There is a grossness in the conceptions of my countrymen; they will not be convinced that any good thing may consist with what they call idleness; they can anticipate nothing but evil of a young man who neither studies physic, law, nor gospel, nor opens a store, nor takes to farming, but manifests an incomprehensible disposition to be satisfied with what his father left him.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Meanwhile, Margene cannot get over the grody-grody-grossness of J. J.'s missing fingernails.
Mark Blankenship: Big Love Wife Watch!: Season Four, Ep. 2
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The grossness and the sliminess of it was forgotten in the simple grotesqueness of it, and he had the saving sense of humor.
The Benefit of the Doubt
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But those were relatively minor compared to a completely unexpected miracle of self-control circuits: their ability to extract precision from grossness .
