How To Use Multiplicity In A Sentence

This multiplicity of perspectives is necessary to my critique of the masculinist models of critical pedagogy and is an important step toward a revised critical-feminist praxis.
There was something about the collective multiplicity of images, the sense of being surrounded by them, that made it all so potent.
Magos Herrera has evolved into a global-centric musician, capable of expressing herself in a multiplicity of languages, and vocal settings; from straight-ahead, ballads, scats, and the various dimensions and invention of Afro-Latin music. HW Pick: Magos Herrera, Luna Menguante Barluna «
Cadfael found something so significant in that arrow-straight progress towards the church that he followed, candidly curious and officiously helpful, and finding Rafe of Coventry standing hesitant by the parish altar, looking round him at the multiplicity of chapels contained in transepts and chevet, directed him with blunt simplicity to the one he was looking for. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
Happiness is the satisfaction of all our desires; extensive, in regard to their multiplicity; intensive, in regard to their degree; and protensive, in regard to their duration. The Critique of Pure Reason

French literature, discussions on the advisability of establishing a monarchy, on the advisability of establishing a republic, on the advisability of establishing an empire; and before we proceed to examine the arguments, we cannot help being struck at the strange contrast which this multiplicity of open questions presents to our own uninquiring acquiescence in the hereditary polity which has descended to us. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
This internally inconsistent narrative derives its protean fluidity from the projection and reception of the multiplicity of the gendered and racialized discourses of her and our own time.
The world is now turning towards India because such multiplicity of cultures is not found anywhere else.
His climbing record lists a multiplicity of outstanding ascents from around the world.
Sport seems to me to acquire added validity as well as added meaning when you follow it in a multiplicity of forms. Times, Sunday Times
It may be suggested that saponin is thus a constructive element in developing the plant from the multiplicity of floral elements to the cephalization of those organs. Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
These hours of drowsihead were the season of the old gentlewoman's attendance on her brother, while Phoebe took charge of the shop; an arrangement which the public speedily understood, and evinced their decided preference of the younger shopwoman by the multiplicity of their calls during her administration of affairs. The House of the Seven Gables
At a deeper level, you may want to have constraints such as uniqueness of an element value, multiplicity of an element, or restriction of the values of an element.
We are not typal creations but evolutionary entities associating ourselves in this multiplicity of creation. Archive 2009-07-01
Since Fortuna is a personification of the fortuitous, and the fortuitous is a branch of the chain of causality, its normal place in the providential scheme is within the realm of Fate, which is the unfolding of Providence in multiplicity and time. FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE
The dynamic continuity of psychological time is both unity and diversity; but it is neither the abstract homogeneous unity of mathe - matical time nor the dust-like multiplicity of the externally related durationless instants; it is the mnemic continuity in which no sharp separation can be drawn between the successive phases, despite their qualitative heterogeneity. TIME
If the Modern Era was a rage for order, regulation, stability, singularity, and fixity, the Postmodern Era is a rage for chaos, uncertainty, otherness, openness, multiplicity, and change.
Big, tough, fully matured yobs with a multiplicity of tattoos and convictions for affray and GBH get misty-eyed when reflecting on their unmuzzled pit-bull Vinny and their lethal Alsatian Prince.
Here's where old ideas, like the wonder of a common currency, have struggled to cope with a multiplicity of new and very different economies.
I still prefer blogs to boards because I prefer oneness to multiplicity.
As the plural of the book's title suggests, it enjoys the multiplicity of these paradoxes and antitheses. The Times Literary Supplement
Is it realistic to talk of a multiplicity of body plans in the Cambrian, far exceeding that of the present day?
There was no single meaning in a defiant gesture against the ideology of an image, because gestures can carry a multiplicity of meanings. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
In views of harmonious society, the construction of harmonious university pays more attention to personality, harmony, sustentation and multiplicity.
He describes the finished product as, ‘an exploration of the concept of home, of personal change, of identities or multiplicity of identities through radiophonic format.’
It’s just amazing how readily we’ll tear each other down for doing whatever works for our families; it’s like multiplicity is a completely unheard-of concept in parenting. Oh, it’s going to be like that. « Love | Peace | Ohana
Is it not that this is the master organon for giving men the two precious qualities of breadth of interest and balance of judgment; multiplicity of sympathies and steadiness of sight? Voltaire
This classic narrative structure theoretically permits a multiplicity of perspectives.
This metaphor represents the miracle of creation, bringing the world into being as a multiplicity out of the stillness of an unstirred sleep.
A style, on this reading is a metaphor of an embodiment, and the multiplicity of his styles a sign of his multiple embodiment. Philosophy at the Limit
Future research should attempt to assess the complexity or multiplicity of roles that constitute the work role.
The Trinity affirms an image of God rooted in plurality and multiplicity. Jason Derr: A New Conception of the Trinity for Post-Trinity Faith
Imputing an end to an action is of a fictional nature in the sense that it is not free from the subjective valuation that conditions the researcher's thematization of a certain subject matter out of “an infinite multiplicity of successively and coexistently emerging and disappearing events” [Weber 1904/1949, Asthmatic
For instance, SWAP'S support of alternative research methodologies is consonant with the multiplicity of methods used by members of the History and Theory Section.
The huge system of the trades is, for some reason, quite confounded by this multiplicity of reefs, the wind intermits, squalls are frequent from the west and south-west, hurricanes are known. In the South Seas
For a multiplicity of reasons, it has, in hardy memetic fashion, taken on a life of its own. Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives
The biographical and even impressionistic touches of his never confuse the reader nor make him/her lose track of the transcendence of the doctrine exposed, no more than the multiplicity of theophanies should make one forget the essential unity of the transpersonal Absolute. Introducing Jean Biès
What we see in the hajj is not just a unified pilgrimage which draws millions of Muslims around the globe each year, but in fact a multiplicity of hajjes that co-exist through time and in space. Zahra N. Jamal, Ph.D.: Hajj Diaries: The Multiple Dimensions Of Muslim Pilgrimage
It was a dream in which man cast off his atomic individuality, as the lycanthrope surrendered to the multiplicity of the wolf pack.
But this sort of cooking defines itself by the multiplicity of its components, so there was also a dice of warmed smoked salmon and poached cucumber, bok choi, salt cod brandade and, on the side, a cup of tomato consommé.
As Dr Eulenspiegel has rightly stated, these contributions encompassed a multiplicity of areas and sectors.
“It cannot reasonably be supposed that I, who am stripped of the help I once was allowed”—meaning his aide-de-camp—“can turn my hands and my thoughts to such a multiplicity of business.” George Washington’s First War
The instrumentation of the military band is similar to that of the symphony orchestra, minus the strings, but with the addition of cornets and saxophones, and a multiplicity of flutes and clarinets of various sizes.
So, from both perspectives of the multiplicity and the ecology of the culture, it is urgent and necessary for us to protect and inherit the birchbark boat of Orochen.
Even Holliday is realist enough to concede that “we must recognize people’s aesthetic preferences for types of English and types of speakers, and the possibility that they may prefer flavours from the English-speaking West over indigenous flavours for a multiplicity of reasons” (op. cit., p. 60). N is for Native-speakerism « An A-Z of ELT
The worlds which we see - with all their properties of immensity, resemblance, and dissimilitude - result from the endless multiplicity of falling atoms.
In Balaguer's version, plenitudinous platonism postulates a multiplicity of mathematical universes, each corresponding to a consistent mathematical theory. Philosophy of Mathematics
One reason for the multiplicity of groups was a difference of opinion which soon emerged between the advocates of moderation in drinking and those who demanded total abstinence - or teetotalism.
The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
The remaining 24 progeny were tested only at marker loci on chromosomes showing significant linkage to the tumor multiplicity phenotype.
Multiplicity is also more easily associated with hybridity and assemblages - but still concerned with connections between singularities.
More specifically, this year's 2009 Asian Art Biennial explores how a multiplicity of perspectives have come to inform our contemporary reality, and how such reality, characterized by high degrees of equivocality, has in turn enriched the cultural perspectives of Asia. Chinalyst - China blogs in English
Operation comes to overtask us, either through the admixture of useless matters, or through the multiplicity of instruments, or through the bulk of the material and of the bodies that may happen to be required for any particular work. The New Organon
Each researcher must make a personal choice, in the multiplicity of circumstances which now exist.
Ritt-Wu's method of characteristic sets is an effective method to solve algebraic equations by computer, while one cannot get the multiplicity of an isolated solution by this method so far.
Currently, local police forces have to address a multiplicity of demands on their resources.
Humans give names to the multiplicity of existing things in accordance with the rules which govern those things.
In these, her first and feeblest attempts to animalize organization, it is latent, because undeveloped, and merely potential; while, in the human brain, the last and most consummate of her combined energies, it is again lost or disguised in the subtlety (15) and multiplicity of its evolution. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
Conventional truth is the dependently originated multiplicity of phenomena each of which is mentally imputed upon a basis that is other than itself. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
You can be touched by its spirituality, transported by its energy, and moved by its overproportioned dimensions; you can be fascinated by its rhythmical life; you can be seduced by the colours and harmonies which lead you to the borders of timbre; you can be absorbed by the multiplicity of inspiration, whether local to different parts of the planet or historical, ranging from ancient music to recent. What Pierre-Laurent said last
A multiplicity of interesting directions beckon, tempting you to take on too much by rushing into something new before finishing the last thing you started.
Rather there is a general set of semantic associations within the culture-at-large and a multiplicity of subsets conventionalised at a subcultural level — where X is generally taken to signify Y within a certain community even if it is not in the culture-at-large. Arguing With Geeks 9
When your personal multiplicity is printed on your face, in an almost too obviously thematic manner, in your DNA, in your hair and in the neither this nor that beige of your skin — well, anyone can see you come from Dream City. Liminality | clusterflock
The multiplicity of possible perspectives is endless, whilst the definite moment in time remains crystallised.
This exhibition documents the regional and chronological specificity of dress styles, as well as the multiplicity of variations within a single type.
The stories which selected in this series with the idea of multiplicity reflected in this way. Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం
With a readability that does not undermine its scholarliness, The Hindus marshalls significant historical and textual detail to establish the undeniable multiplicity not only of Hindu beliefs, but also of religious texts. The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger – review
We introduce two definitions for the multiplicity of an isolated solution, they are equivalent and coincide with that of Van der Waerden in the case the later works.
Turnpikes put lengthy stretches of road under unified management, thereby dispensing with the need for coordination among a multiplicity of local governments to improve roads.
It has a multiplicity of meanings, as I hope has become clear.
This concurrence of disparate attitudes toward him creates an ambiguous point of view and indicates a duplicity, if not a multiplicity, of authorship.
The site is suitable for a multiplicity of uses subject to planning permission.
I ask for them to see past their dualisms and embrace multiplicity.
Perhaps the multiplicity of pivot pins is what makes Art the immeasurable, great?
A sudden multiplicity of voices would suggest a court or crowd scene; birdsong, a garden; wind and rain, a heath; waves and seagulls, a seashore.
The book's title comes from a sententious line of Henry James's, and the opening preamble announces that multiplicity is going to be an important theme.
The new lodger, rather shoutingly dressed but looking superbly handsome, stepped with courtly carnage into the trim little breakfast-room and put out all his cordial arms at once, like one of those pocket-knives with a multiplicity of blades, and shook hands with the whole family simultaneously. Those Extraordinary Twins
That means the state should fund a system which offered a multiplicity of schools - grammar schools, yes, but many other types of specialisms, too.
It is an organic unity with a multiplicity of parts.
They indicate how carefully the author is thinking about the multiplicity of meanings derivable from the metaphors: Balkinization
Having the Web's multiplicity of information at our fingertips empowers and diminishes us.
It is through her that the multiplicity of other characters are entwined.
The basis of this accusation was Leibniz's attribution to the soul of only two basic faculties: perception, the representation of multiplicity in a simple soul, and appetition, which he defines as Kant and Leibniz
Instead, their music successfully extends electronica's reach to meld with the multiplicity and playfulness of nature.
That weightiness suited Carsen's debut staging, in which proscenium arches receded nightmarishly into a distant horizon in Michael Levine's stage-within-a-multiplicity-of-stages set. A tale of two Italian opera cities
But these are minor cavils in the face of the impressive achievements of women artists from all over the world, working in every medium and in a multiplicity of styles and expressive contexts.
Without an independent media, the multiplicity of voices, whether in concert or contestation, are less likely to be heard, Jervis insisted.
The abuse of women stems from a multiplicity of cultural circumstances influenced by power relations.
At the heart of postmodernism is pluralism: a belief in multiverses and multiplicity, implying that there are as many ways to understand and experience the world as there are people who experience it.
Original matter - the source of the multiplicity in the world - was essentially something multipliable by its very nature and capacity.
This exaggeration of the function of education expressed by the word multiplicity deserves a little consideration, for it would appear that our educationists overlook the fact that the organism with which they have to deal is going through the most critical period of its existence. The Art of Living in Australia
Cocksworth (1991) and Douglas (2006) argue that Anglican eucharistic theology is characterized by multiformity, that is, a multiplicity of views with many voices actually competing against each other. Archive 2007-04-01
The other epic poets have used the same practice, but generally carried it so far as to superinduce a multiplicity of fables, destroy the unity of action, and lose their readers in an unreasonable length of time. The Iliad of Homer
Making the audience an active part of viewing instead of the passive consumer of physicalized intentions has resulted in a greater sense of the vitality and multiplicity of images and performances as events.
One strategy, then, for undermining the idea that a category is substantival is to highlight the multiplicity of individuals and categories "in between" the primary category and its implicit opposite. Feminist Metaphysics
The thought was developed more clearly in the seventeenth century by Robert Boyle; according to him, all bodies consist of one and the same primitive material; their varying multiplicity is due to the different size and shape of the small parts or corpuscles, to their different states of rest or movement. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922 - Presentation Speech
Rural road works are executed by a number of agencies in India with a multiplicity of objectives.
Its presence is what invests every human being with a multiplicity of powers and potentialities.
Syādvāda, an ancient Jainist doctrine of 7-fold postulation, allows you a multiplicity of angles of seeing reality. Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: WYSIWYC
Multiplicity amusingly saw cloning as the answer for the businessman who was forced to spend too much time at work.
Among the multiplicity of service encounters, some will be crucial to successful completion of the service delivery process.
It gives us almost everything the imagination craves – irony, heroism, vastness, unity in multiplicity, and a tragic close. C.S. Lewis on Evolutionism (the Myth)
That is, under this model we will not have any ultimate unities or identities, but rather it will be multiplicities all the way down, where one multiplicity constitutes another multiplicity as a unity for itself… Archive 2008-01-01
Largely composed of cells known as hepatocytes, which are involved in a multiplicity of synthetic, metabolic, and biotransformatory processes, the liver is unusual in that it is perfused with a dual blood supply.
Foucault's quote, curiously, is exactly applicable to the situation between Mr. Windschuttle and his postmodern rivals: he is a person from a strong cultural tradition, having trouble understanding the language of another culture's logic - in other words, trying to apprehend "a culture ... that does not distribute the multiplicity of existing things into any of the categories that make it possible for us to name, speak and think. Archive 2009-01-01
a multiplicity of coexistent artistic forms
Larva echoes this multiplicity of tongues, a babel of aliens.
We introduce two definitions for the multiplicity of an isolated solution, they are equivalent and coincide with that of Van der Waerden in the case the later works.
For some hardline individuals on a great number of issues there simply is no room for debate or a multiplicity of opinion at all.
However, the biological significance of this multiplicity of enzymes remains unclear.
Cults and sacrifices in classical Greece were intimately linked to civic distinctions and in their staggering multiplicity they also reflect the regionalism and particularism of classical Greek society.
As Badiou so nicely articulates it, ontology will be the science of multiplicity qua multiplicity without any identical terms or unities pre-existing these multiplicities. Archive 2008-01-01
Humans give names to the multiplicity of existing things in accordance with the rules which govern those things.
Judging of things by the light of human prudence, he thought the community could never raise itself again to the position it occupied before the fire, and wishing to prevent a multiplicity of institutions in his diocese, he formed the design of uniting the _rising community_ to the _Ursulines_ at Quebec. Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois
“Unity in multiplicity” is Coleridge's favorite aes - thetic formula, which he repeats in many guises (“unity in multeity,” il più nell'uno, etc.). ORGANICISM
The expression and experience of God -- the expression and experience of Love-in-Action -- exists in plurality and multiplicity. Jason Derr: A New Conception of the Trinity for Post-Trinity Faith
There is a multiplicity of fashion magazines to choose from.
Moreover, it simply would not be possible to abandon this multiplicity of struggles.
It is this multiplicity of choices that drives a consumer society.
-- As might be expected to happen, and as always happens, the multiplicity of sects brought about two tendencies, one consisting in selecting somewhat arbitrarily from each sect what one found best in it, which is called "eclecticism," the other in thinking that no school grasped the truth, that the truth is not to be grasped, which is called "scepticism. Initiation into Philosophy
The classification management of nonprofit organization is complex with multiplicity due to different focuses.
A blistering attack on Lucretius' republican Epicurean poem underlies the poet's passionate Stoic hymns to the mystical order governing the multiplicity and diversity of creation.
The multiplicity or loss of the vitellogenin (vtg) gene family in vertebrates has been argued to have broad implications for the mode of reproduction (placental or non-placental), cleavage pattern (meroblastic or holoblastic) and character of the egg (pelagic or benthic). BioMed Central - Latest articles
The expected uses would be considerable, such as for repairs which must fluently result from the rapidity and multiplicity of the motor.
You have begun now the Plotinian ascent from multiplicity to unity, and therefore begin to perceive in the Many the clear and actual presence of the One: the changeless and absolute Life, manifesting itself in all the myriad nascent, crescent, cadent lives. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People
The word ‘racism’ can cover a multiplicity of sins and doesn't really describe what I went through.
Its rigid architectonics of narrative underdetermine character, stabilizing it: a multiplicity of signs is reduced to a paucity of meaning; the paranoid is frozen in someone else's text.
The centripetal tendency of closure merges with the centrifugal radiation of the art symbol to unify singularity with multiplicity, stasis with kinesis, and imagination with reality.
There is a multiplicity of fashion magazines to choose from.
Primarily, however, I notice the sheer multiplicity of accents, languages and ethnic types jostling for space in those sweaty Tube carriages.
As the author has argued in his consideration of the Souillac trumeau, such monstrous mouths could evoke a multiplicity of meanings for the monastic audience.
There was a quincunx of springs, the waters of which were believed by many to be a cure for a multiplicity of ills, to be found in the shrine in the centre of the town and, beyond the locks of the river (which flowed east, to the city of Landward), were the parlours of the wonder-workers. One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber
Is there any other short word so charged with a multiplicity of meanings and significations, so many disparate elements?
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton
Gothic seems reducible to steep roofs and a ‘multiplicity’ of gables.
Only a very few genes are responsible for the multiplicity of physical forms. Times, Sunday Times
The singleness of the end contrasted with the multiplicity of means, allowed for the full exercise of human faculties.

How To Use Multiplicity In A Sentence

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