How To Use Novelty In A Sentence

What is at stake in this novelty could scarcely be greater.
We then walked through a natural arch in the rock, which might have pleased us by its novelty, had the stones, which incumbered our feet, given us leisure to consider it. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
When apparel maker Betabrand created a pair of khaki pants whose back-pocket linings and hems could be exposed to reveal reflective fabric, it expected the pants to be a short-term novelty item. Beyond Spandex: Chic Styles for Cyclists Take Off
When it comes to monster movies, novelty is not the be-all end-all; there is always room for a splashy new death or a witty recontextualization, but there are benefits to sticking to the formula. Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #3: All Creatures Great and Small; Zombies, Vampires, and Terrible Human Beings
However, since this mode was included in previous versions, it feels more like a postscript than a true addition or novelty.

Of the third, S. Bernard saith: Three things there be that make the death of saints precious, rest of travail, joy of novelty, surety of perdurability. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
A little bit of attention and a few small victories do not change the fact that you are still, for the most part, a novelty act, like a horse that can count by stomping its hooves.
When times are hard or not so, rummaging through other people's (and I have to admit sometimes dead people's) cast-offs and unwanted novelty kitchen items is a fine way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
He wore a red nose and novelty glasses for comic effect.
Previous to her marriage she was head "saleslady" at the "Little Sailor" * novelty shop, corner of Quai Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
Another novelty proposed by Alvey is the idea of demonstrator projects which would involve industry and academe in pooling their knowledge.
There's a certain novelty value in this approach.
They seemed to enjoy the novelty of not having lots of things to do.
Isn't Marx making a deliberately exaggerated statement of his own position in order to display its novelty?
'Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
The winner of the novelty cake was Michelle Flatley, Moyview.
The Baroness (as she was known after her marriage to a shifty nobleman) and her friends worshipped novelty, inappropriateness, audacity, not piously but with ferocious abandon.
A trip down a mine has great novelty value for most people.
For many the philosophy was merely a fashion, and the novelty soon wore off.
The press camping on my parents doorstep was a bit of a novelty for them.
Too much Affordably Good Design made me want to go straight to a novelty shop in Devizes to buy a toby jug of a grinning trawlerman's head sporting a yellow sou'wester.
With their own small pasteurizer, homogenizer, soft-serve machinery and novelty-forming equipment, the plant's R&D director and food technologists can create test products without disrupting normal plant operations.
He sallied forth from his house to relish the novelty of walking behind no less than twelve togate lictors who carried on their shoulders the bundle of rods ritually bound with red leather thongs. The Grass Crown
Another novelty proposed by Alvey is the idea of demonstrator projects which would involve industry and academe in pooling their knowledge.
But this can be a positive as you will be a novelty and it may catch the eye of a chica prepared to show you some moves!
And it leads me to think that the notion of queer used here is strongly associated with neophilia and neophobia, ie degree of attraction to novelty.
Emergent novelty in a video game is tremendous fun; emergent novelty in our airplane traffic-control system would be a national emergency.
As already indicated, the intense emotionalism about the liberal moment was suggestive of novelty - the appearance of a new dawn.
Among the acts that took to the stage were hilarious novelty acts, rhythmic dance routines, some melodious individual singing, harmonious duets and even a few notable musicians.
If mongrel species represent genetic novelty and are stabilizing components of their ecosystems, are they not worth saving?
While novelty ignites temporary enthusiasm on both sides of the footlights, the Washington Ballet's most urgent need would seem to be productions of proven old works.
Consequently you end up with a load of unwanted, unnecessary tat like a novelty stand for your mobile phone, an after-shave that smells like cat pee, or a six-pack of socks in fluorescent, lime green.
The real novelty was the stables tour to see the shire horses that pull the drays.
Many toys have no attraction beyond their novelty value .
As the voyages of novelty-hungry explorers penetrated more and more remote localities, so the variety of parrots brought home increased. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
Somebody stole it of course, it's probably now a novelty ashtray on a coffee table in Spalding or somewhere. Archive 2007-07-01
The "Southern Republic," from her immense size and unusually handsome equipment, was a novelty even to the river people; and each afternoon of her starting, crowds came aboard to bid farewell to friends and roam over the vessel, or collected on the bluffs above to see her swing out to the shrill notes of her "calliope," the best and least discordant on the river. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
At first disc jockeys played the Kingsmen recording as a novelty, a kind of joke.
Many toys have no attraction beyond their novelty value .
No American author had ever dreamed of such ovation before: an ovation not due to any incisive thought, not due to any novelty of his subject-matter, -- but due to the fact that a man born overseas had suddenly appeared among British writers, who could lay hold upon their own resources of sentiment, and inwrap it in language which charmed them by its grace and provoked them by its purity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
The human desire for novelty is twinned with an equally imperative desire for continuity.
The above is a marriage of a few of my most hated things: that typeface, novelty hair bobbles, dumb photos taken on the laps of costumed characters, and that spaced-out rainbow jumpsuit.
Oh, I admit they were under-powered and rattly, and that the novelty of driving them wore off once you'd done a few years behind the wheel. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
Gradually, the novelty of city life began to pall.
We had major novelty value - it's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft.
Traditional knowledge is a distinctive system from modern knowledge system, with the characteristics of localization, communality , dynamic and non-novelty.
A bathroom brand with a smart modern range of baths, basins, showers and brassware, plus a knack for novelty. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps many people are seduced by the sheer novelty or comedy of my appearance.
I'm thinking of making a bellyboard just as a novelty and to pass away a few hours (not neglecting my standup).
You could be heavily reward dependent, indifferent to novelty, and mildly harm avoidant—a stay-at-home hedonist, in other words. Mind Wide Open
But creativity means appearance of novelty, which by definition exists outside the confines of a deterministic universe.
Personal checks and automatic debits for monthly bills are a novelty.
This tropical fruit is still a great novelty in Europe.
The richness and elegance of the church took me all "aback;" it was so entirely different from anything I had seen, that it was difficult to decide whether I was most charmed by its novelty or its beauty. Views a-foot
The novelty of this book is that it counterposes sociobiology to developmental biology rather than its traditional foe, anti-biological approaches to human sociality.
While singing with lovely tone, her ragged entries and distracting blocking added humour but lost novelty quickly.
A British businessman who can speak a foreign language is still something of a novelty.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man. Thomas Carlyle
But there are difficult questions to be asked as to how one might distinguish innovation from formal novelty.
To those who know him, he isn't a novelty act or a weakling who couldn't hack the rigours of the infantry.
Beauty should have the qualities of truth, objectiveness, social utility,[Sentence dictionary] emotion and novelty.
I suspect he preferred the novelty of being a black man who sang like Elvis in mostly white honky-tonks to being a nearly blind visitor to the king of rock 'n' roll's court.
It was quite a novelty to spend my holidays working on a boat.
The arrangement of the Frascati is a novelty; it is all so open and, though there are plenty of staffers about, not in the least stuffy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892
Novelty bands are ten a penny, as even the most cursory glance at the charts on either side of the Atlantic will show you.
In Europe, generations and centuries prepared the way for this novelty; medieval philosophy and theocratic organization had been transformed step by step. A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky
During the war years, Auntie Flo always sent food in the Bundles for Britain from America and we had a tinned fruit cake, a much appreciated novelty.
And to this day, you can still find Thundercats gear in novelty shops. Friday Top 5: 80s Cartoons
There's a certain novelty value in this approach.
What most people are really talking about when they use the term innovation is more like what industrial historian Phil Scranton discusses as a variation, that is, "the disciplined change of an artifact's features or components, without affecting its core functions or capabilities" or a novelty that "references the creation of new artifacts within the domain of the known. Elliot Washor: Thoughts on Innovation
They weren't even on the seasonal novelty aisle.
Now that the novelty had become accustomedness, and the conquering a surety, Billy discovered that she had a back that could ache, and limbs that, at times, could almost refuse to move from weariness. Miss Billy -- Married
The first major attempt to use computer animation in a feature film was largely down to the novelty of the medium itself.
Tourists are still a novelty on this remote island.
Homophonic hypertexts are of a function of puns and rhetorically featured with humor, novelty and brevity.
Also worth looking out for are novelty chamber pots often made in the form of animals which were designed to potty-train small children.
Beyond its chronological breadth and the relative novelty of its subject, this book has much to recommend it.
It came from the days when a motor car was a novelty.
We throw away stuff not because it's outlived its usefulness or functionality but its novelty.
More within the reach of the novice collector are the myriad of smaller novelty pieces, from the cameo brooch to the charm bracelet.
The story is about a future society in which an authoritarian cult controls the vast reaches of Asia, but is then overthrown, leaving a pair of young lovers to experience the scary novelty of freedom.
Once the novelty of the costumed fighting has passed, the stories are rather forgettable.
Steve from Scary Toy Clown submits his post following the path of bright orange novelty lederhosen from the Bavarian Beer company which have now shown up as the main game piece in a Chinese board game with an amusingly violent commercial. Boing Boing
It was a time when pressure cookers, gas cookers and food mixers were making kitchen tasks easier, but refrigerators were still something of a novelty.
No, as such she has seen I could resist her; nor yet the light trifler of a spring or two, neglected when no longer a novelty; no, no! — it is a companion for ever, it is a solace for every care, it is a bosom friend through every period of life that I seek in Miss Beverley! Cecilia
But was there something deeper to roller disco than the novelty of dancing on skates?
Many a manager agrees that voices lose novelty and impact, their ideas age, their approach can become monotonous.
These innovations made possible more playthings per child as well more variety and novelty in playthings, making children's products part of an emerging fashion industry.
Hotline is an adult novelty, aka repackaged children's toy that didn't sell well and / or offended the public. Gizmodo
More within the reach of the novice collector are the myriad of smaller novelty pieces, from the cameo brooch to the charm bracelet.
Other events on the day include performing artists, novelty races, face painting, workshops, market stalls and music.
And in so far as strangeness in the form of novelty is not intrinsically valuated as positive or negative, does not automatically accrue a boulomaic modality of "should have happened" or "should not have happened", it is by no means unfair or inaccurate to say that the SF narrative is capable of exhibiting an entirely different narrative grammar to any of those outlined above. Archive 2008-01-01
That dalliance with the truth about why sport actually exists spawned a little hybrid that would grow to take over the game, mostly because of its novelty.
So among the musics in modern concerts , many composers pursue the novelty of music by the way of breaking free from convention and making it untraditional, which limited the musical receivers.
Bookshops this Christmas are piled high with short novelty volumes knocked off by their authors in a couple of hours flat.
A Christmas cracker usually contains a paper hat, a joke and a novelty.
It was he who coined the term ‘the Condition of England’ and it was he who pressed the English to come to terms with the modern urbanized and industrialized novelty of their condition.
The novelty of the new popular poetry is not its mass appeal; that was a commonplace in American culture in the late nineteenth century.
History shows that my novelty value tends to wear off within about two minutes.
A person's inherent need for sensation is not necessarily obvious in the early stages of a relationship, when love itself is a novelty and carries its own thrills.
Being a Scot, biscuits (what I would call a savoury scone) are a bit of a novelty for me, so I am looking forward to making some. Biscuit Bliss | Baking Bites
The Alpaca Accessories collection from Peru offers novelty reversible handknit hats, crochet earflap hats, and fingerless gloves in natural colors. Natural and Organic Gifts
Here is a brief quote from a much larger section of the book concerned with novelty and different paradigms of information-presentation.
But the ardent and active spirit of Lady Penelope, still athirst after novelty, though baffled in her two first projects, brought forward a third, in which she was more successful. Saint Ronan's Well
Regardless, the VP was certainly excited by the sheer novelty of the experience.
Included are figure dancing, solo dancing, recitations, music and novelty acts.
It was quite a novelty to spend my holidays working on a boat.
Marcella Boyce, a "finished" and grown-up young woman of twenty-one, the only daughter and child of Mr. Boyce of Mellor Park, inheritress of one of the most ancient names in Midland England, and just entering on a life which to her own fancy and will, at any rate, promised the highest possible degree of interest and novelty. Marcella
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Gibson used the word "preemptively" - but if a knowledgeable person had pushed back on that point ( "Well, preemption was what John F. Kennedy had in mind in acting against the imminent threat of Soviet missiles in Cuba"), Gibson would certainly have come back to explain the novelty of the "preventive war" point. Later On
Spanish football is experiencing a novelty: the successful export of some of its better footballers.
He himself confidently predicted it, foreseeing a time when his books would be the subject of serious study and when he would be applauded for the novelty and depth of the insights they contained.
’Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Though not altogether successful, it had the novelty value of being set in the eccentric subculture of stylists and hairdressing salons.
A novelty to foreign visitors, the cactus is as common on the Mexican plate as potatoes or rice in many other parts of the world. Nopales, tunas and pitayas
One seems like a license to print money, and the other may end up being simply an exercise in novelty printing. Paint it black: DC Comics solicitations for July 2009 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
There's a certain novelty value in this approach.
Picardie writes about her parents with deep, unshowy affection and a certain reticence - entirely appropriate, and a pleasant novelty in these days of compulsory gut-spilling.
Moving on, the third sentence fuses the comprehensible and the strange, the old and the new, balancing the novelty of "chips in the head" against the traditionality of "broth"; but it also, in following on from the first two, develops the narrative. Strange Fiction 6
A novelty for the home crowd at reserve matches in 1924-25 was music from gramophone records broadcast through a loudspeaker.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
That fact makes certain legal rules formally inapplicable, and the novelty of the situation creates a dilemma for both the government and for immigrants.
Hence, novelty is not necessarily a virtue in political theory, nor is old age a defect.
We are often told that establishment taste is parochial, obtuse and unreceptive to novelty.
An extra novelty in the 1980 - 1 franchise competition was the new breakfast time contract.
It was funny for a while but the novelty soon wore off.
No child went away disappointed as there were so many races: freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, relays and novelty races.
The ice cream novelty sector is about one-third of the U.S. ice cream market; the lower-margin, scoopable ice cream segment makes up the remaining two thirds. Unilever Brings Magnum Bars to U.S.
I've always found going clubbing mildly ridiculous, which probably added to the novelty of last night's outing.
Tom said he started bringing a book to work to pass the time after the initial novelty wore off.
In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
Today on BoingBoing Gadgets, we reviewed a 3G USB modem that works great on Macs and high-end canine gear; listened to The Harmonium; drank a strictly-conforming European pint; watched Belkin try to bring novelty to the world of mouse pads; built an ornithopter and a difference engine; guzzled yoghurt with a specially-shaped spoon; and listened to a beautiful boombox in a double-bass fiddle. Boing Boing
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man. Thomas Carlyle
But opinion is often shaped by a modern preference for novelty.
Like many disciplines, history stays alive through novelty spins, Romantic History, psychohistory, the school of the annales and oral history.
Novelty acts or musical parodies or cartoon fun dominate web television. Times, Sunday Times
Not the fried chicken and waffles from Jones or the bittersweet chocolate semifreddo from Novelty?
For many the novelty of all that blood-soaked jibber-jabber wore thin pretty quickly.
Cheap tracts and single sheet broadsides fed an apparently insatiable popular appetite for novelty, sensation and titillation.
Unfortunately, the eviscerated shredding he applies in "Hallelujah!" engages initially for its novelty, but grows tiresome over repeated listenings.
While the only thing it's actually revolutionized so far is the novelty items industry, it does deserve some credit as an impressive work of technology.
In view of the novelty and uncertainties of [Marc's] case, I do not think that the doctors could reasonably have been expected to do more than advise on the risks and advantages of each option in fairly broad and unquantified terms.
But then Brunel's vessel was neither fish nor fowl: a passenger liner too ugly and dirty to offer much beyond novelty value. ANTI-ICE
Jason had too, at first, but they lost their novelty when you were shovelling several times your own weight in dung a day. Enter the Sky Man « A Fly in Amber
Apart from the novelty value of this, there is the advantage of speed of execution.
A) The Nick Clegg novelty bounce at first plateaued and now has eroded -- or "punctured" -- in the last week of the campaign. William E. Jackson Jr.: Is the Prime Minister Becoming More Presidential?
Getting men to take an interest in what they look like has traditionally been considered uphill work, and in the grand scheme of the fashion industry, the status of menswear has tended to rank somewhere beneath novelty millinery.
Advertising values memorability and pattern recognition, and those things are pleasures, but difficulty and novelty and freshness are also pleasures.
Maybe Antonietta herself will tire of me when the novelty wears off.
These included tea-lights, night-lights, perfumed candles, novelty candles, oil burners and other candleholders.
We love the serial format that gave us masterpieces such as Eightball, Frank, Acme Novelty Library, Optic Nerve, Yummy Fur, Zap, Dirty Plotte, Palookaville, and Love & Rockets -- and we want to keep alive the stapled marvel that is the comic book. Buenaventura offers stimulus package | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
It was a time when pressure cookers, gas cookers and food mixers were making kitchen tasks easier, but refrigerators were still something of a novelty.
Like the Hindu temples and the Sikh gurdwaras, the mosque as an architectural type, despite centuries of evolution, is a novelty in North America.
But since this would involve draping myself over couches wearing a toga and sucking grapes it would lack novelty, being all too similar to an ordinary Saturday night chez Lupin.
Passengers told how they used mobile phones and novelty glowsticks as impromptu torches to guide them to safety.
Hard to imagine that cars were a novelty in 1900.
The cool temperatures and dampness of the cave doomed it to failure though and the novelty eventually wore off.
He wore a red nose and novelty glasses for comic effect.
For something a little bit different you could go for a bay with its ball of leaves sitting atop a trunk trained into a spiral - but be prepared to pay for the novelty.
Already the novelty of their presence was wearing off and the designers, irreverent by nature, were reverting to type. DEATH IN FASHION
The dobro, the resonating guitar with the "hubcap" top, introduced in the late 1920s for playing oozing Hawaiian music, had had a very set, limited role in country, as heard in the fills and comedy novelty sounds brought to Roy Acuff's band by Bashful Brother Oswald (Pete Kirby) and the even-more-intricate playing of Uncle Josh Graves with Flatt & Scruggs. Jerry Douglas, Irreplaceable Instrumentalist
If all you're looking for is the spectacularity and novelty value of a cutting-edge 3D Hollywood Schlocksbuster, Beowulf does do the business. Archive 2007-11-01
We'll get heartily sick of these two issues over the next three months but, for now, both introduce wonderful novelty to the political contest.
It's something that, as a pubescent boy, would probably give you a thrill, but as an adult comes across as a novelty or a perverted game feature.
At first I enjoyed all the parties, but the novelty soon wore off.
It has novelty value but that will soon wear off once the menu options are exhausted.
Those of you who are actively watching the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament currently taking place in South Africa should be well aware of the sometimes annoying other times festive sounding BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ that is emitted from the thousands of World Cup spectators blowing novelty horns called The Vuvuzela. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Prince William Happily Blows His Vuvuzela
From 1917 to 1919 he was a drummer and xylophonist with Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orchestra and recorded and performed on Broadway.
That first year there was a Sunday afternoon parade, two band performances, some novelty events and a home-grown drumming band.
Despite the latter's novelty pointe work and the excellence of Braque's designs this ballet was not a success.
And the achievement — the glottal suspense of "Beat It," the aspirated frenzy of "Dont Stop 'til You Get Enough," the roiling, implacable funk of "Billie Jean," the impregnable position of "Thriller" as the greatest novelty single of all time — was, even as my taste in pop became more jaded and skeptical, persistently superb. Archive 2009-06-01
He hopes that adding a live music element to the locale will give his venue both novelty and staying power.
It is not Edinburgh's fault that Hogmanay rolls around at the coldest part of the year in one of the chilliest parts of Britain; it certainly is Madame Tussauds' fault that it charges nearly £30 for an adult ticket to view what amount to novelty candles, making the attraction one of the few places where a slow-burning fire would be welcome. Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out
In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
You, who have nothing to fear on that score, might wish to play the valetudinarian as a novelty. The Scandal of the Season
The novelty of married life was beginning to wear off.
Now by frequent repetition the surprise, incongruity, or novelty ceases; and, in consequence, the pleasure or pain which accompanied it, and also the degree of volition which was excited by that sensation of pain or pleasure; and thus the sensorial power of sensation and of volition are subducted from the catenation of vital actions, and they are in consequence produced much weaker, and at length cease entirely. Note VII
Like Chris, they enjoy the novelty of having a hobby that is not mainstream.
Yet novelty kept appearing relentlessly from the lips of stray Lyfordites, Baptists, and Quakers who later visited the wilderness community.
To the revisionists, the novelty of the 'new' police was neither efficiency nor integrity.
Ompa robot mate can universally fit any brand robots with the advantages of novelty idea, smart design, simple structure, easily installation and commissioning.
Gradually, the novelty of city life began to pall.
Distributing 7,500 garbage pails around Central Park with a teddy bear atop each might be as creative, if creativity is measured by novelty.
They mistook novelty for originality, creativity, and competence.
The problem is that the source of novelty is so dammed elusive. About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'
Natalia plays these novelty instruments, including Austrian cowbells, the theremin, the toy piano and the musical saw.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
Graham came up the stairs to find me going all gooey over a bookshop novelty from America, containing a small garden gnome, a patch of artificial grass and a stand depicting a cottage garden.
Previously only known to professional clowns, these precision-made miniature novelty bicycles are now available to the general, miniature bike-riding public. Boing Boing: October 28, 2001 - November 3, 2001 Archives
He said that it is the duty of the society to channelize the surplus energy of adolescents to a positive direction so that their thirst for novelty in life does not drive them to a wrong path. Introduce AIDS awareness in moral education: Health Minister
The house was of no marked antiquity, yet of well-advanced age; older than a stale novelty, but no canonized antique; faded, not hoary; looking at you from the still distinct middle-distance of the early Georgian time, and awakening on that account the instincts of reminiscence more decidedly than the remoter and far grander memorials which have to speak from the misty reaches of mediaevalism. The Woodlanders
Tourists are still a novelty on this remote island.
Cheap tracts and single sheet broadsides fed an apparently insatiable popular appetite for novelty, sensation and titillation.
A plate rack held a variety of novelty teapots and a selection of mobiles occupied one corner of the room.
With some annual vines, the appeal is sheer novelty.
This tropical fruit is still a great novelty in Europe.
The Eighties were the decade of innovation and novelty in frozen and processed foods.
Promotions will continue through the festival, at which 30,000 concert-goers will be given festival kits that include novelty themed tattoos.
Peirce, for instance, holds that the impression of novelty which a new occurrence produces is explicable only on the theory of chance, and Bergson seems to be in no better case when he tries to explain what he calls the devenir réel. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

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