How To Use Sensibility In A Sentence

I see his sensibility as basically that of an earlier age: he is a chivalric knight devoted to his lady; this devotion is like that of a medieval Christian who lives in the world yet profoundly venerates the Virgin Mary. Sena Jeter Naslund - An interview with author
_ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
In particular I became aware of an increasing callousness or defect of sensibility in the stomach, and this I imagined might imply a scirrhous state of that organ either formed or forming. The Opium Habit
San Martin, with whom Guevara is compared by some, led his racially and culturally diverse army with much greater sensibility.
We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English

But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
While MGM’s stuff reveled in schmaltz, Warners piled on the panache with a distinctly modern sensibility. 2008 August : Scrubbles.net
From the first moment we spoke I knew you were a girl with great sensibility, and I admire you very much.
And it is certainly true that he often exaggerates, or at any rate misdescribes, some of the contrasts he discerns between medieval and Lutheran religious sensibility.
In earlier work she delivered photomontages that rewrote the creation myth to suit a lesbian sensibility.
Her deportment was the subject of reams of scurrility in prose and verse: it lowered her in the opinion of some whose esteem she valued; nor did the world know, till she was beyond the reach of praise and censure, that the conduct which had brought on her the reproach of levity and insensibility was really a signal instance of that perfect disinterestedness and selfdevotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2
Some were histrionic tragic performances dripping with sensibility. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
He first took to the turntables at 11 years old, and ever since, Paul has remained the hip-hop scene's most adventurous producer, shaping and reshaping the music according to his gonzo sensibility.
Critic Geoffrey Hartman has recently described the impact of suffering on collective consciousness in the late twentieth century as ‘the progress of insensibility, or future non-shock.’
He faded into insensibility, and passed from his blameless life on 12 February 1804, unaccompanied by his former intellectual powers.
Cahill breaks up the music with a string of leftfield jokes and well-crafted prop gags; he's a model-maker when not onstage, and brings a strong visual sensibility that complements the whole package. This week's new comedy
The basis for this whole interrogation is to determine if she has the extensive and extraordinary ability and sensibility to apply our laws to the issues brought before our Supreme Court, without malice or personal prejudice. Sotomayor: Judges have different task than what citizens expect
[455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée, A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Such immersion in the language and ways of the Andalusian countryside profoundly influenced his sensibility.
Hill wanted to channel Chung's low-key, deshabillé, coolest-girl-in-sixth-form sensibility; and also the boysy, briefcase-y spirit of the Elkington. Money bags: the story behind Mulberry's Alexa
Moderate stylization and antirealism that falls short of true expressionism is sometimes enough to soothe congruous crudity into an effectively intensified sensibility, if the idiom is correct.
At the root of the hysterical fear of premature burial was the fact that physicians recognized, and patients suffered, a number of peculiar conditions characterized by immobility and insensibility, and known variously as trance, catalepsy, cataplexy, and suspended animation. The Serpent and the Rainbow
The implicit message of these strategies is that music is an accoutrement to the liturgy, an embellishment, a soundtrack that should pick up on messages and themes and capture some kind of mood, lesson, or sensibility. Laetare Sunday is a real thing
The pale short-lived summer is central to the Swedish sensibility, and few have expressed its gentle melancholy with greater eloquence.
I thus associate the compact world of the admirable hill-top, the world of a predominant golden-brown, with a general invocation of sensibility and fancy, and think of myself as going forth into the lingering light of summer evenings all attuned to intensity of the idea of compositional beauty, or in other words, freely speaking, to the question of colour, to intensity of picture. Italian Hours
Does anybody else think the winning jockey's Cheltenham salute as they pass the post is getting beyond the bounds of sensibility and safety?
Some see it as a great irony and others as complete lack of cultural sensibility and knowledge of Latinos, but the most recent political debate between Democrats and Republicans, have Latinos as main actor and a "chimichanga" sort of a tex mex fried burrito as the evidence. Pilar Marrero: Republicans and Democrats Argue Over "Chimichangas"
tasimeter," an instrument of most delicate sensibility in the presence of heat. Edison, His Life and Inventions
Thank the Gods for a woman like her - with the addled sanity of palace life, and my own befuddling emotions, she is sense in the face of total insensibility.
He created the term by combining "cybernetics," the science of replacing human functions with computerized ones, and "punk," the raucous music and nihilistic sensibility that became a youth culture in the 1970s and '80s. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
Our bus driver, Osca, a fellow Mbena, went overboard here, his genteel and charm overriding all sensibility. Archive 2009-01-01
There is no more distinctive marker of the conservative sensibility than accurate use of the subjunctive mood in speech.
But to get back to the question of a gay sensibility: cliche has us believe that amongst its ingredients are flamboyance, showiness, excess and extravagance.
Prophets is a book-length poem with an ambitiously epic scope, a sensibility and language that is rooted in Jamaica and a work with a markedly religious overtone — not doctrinaire or even ideological, but openly exploring the day-to-day implications of Pentecostalism in Jamaica through a language that is sensual, that invokes myth and reggae and that is best described as risky and experimental. Poetry Terrors : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility.
The piece conveys the sense of an urgent, fully focused formal sensibility at work.
He was savagely beaten into insensibility.
For me, it is the combination of an eye and a sensibility, self-consciousness, and an often uncompromising – but not unamusing or dry, just the opposite! Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
The usual photographic plates, which have their principal sensibility in the violet parts of the spectrum, give us the _photographic_ magnitudes of the stars. Lectures on Stellar Statistics
Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity. When Life Depends On Scrabble
It is probably in Switzerland that his influence was the most fertile: Bodmer borrows from him to fight against Gottsched's academism, and Sulzer takes him as a basis for his theory of sensibility.
Pawel, whom I already knew and liked and would unhesitatingly describe as a genius, was soon attached as director, and instantly brought a new sensibility to bear on the script.
But there were those who faced a more protracted end: numbed into insensibility after days of clinging to a raft or boat in the stormy north Atlantic.
One thing Petty has always had in his favour is a very strong musical ethic and analogue-is-best sensibility. Mudcrutch by Mudcrutch « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
But if his sensibility is adolescent, it is in the best sense: his anarchic entertainments exist somewhere between Alfred Jarry and Terry and the Pirates. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Paul Verhoeven.
Somewhere between circus and living sculpture, it has the thrills and spills of the big top, the aesthetic sensibility of ballet and a hint of louche cabaret.
But perhaps the most vivid and compelling evidence of this highly developed colour sensibility is the artefacts themselves.
I wish I can keep my elegancy, nicety , sensibility, creativity and still easily forgiven.
Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
The ease with which the novel of sensibility blends with the Gothic and even the pornographic is readily explained: feeling is gendered female in patriarchal culture, since the mother seems to be the source of all emotion, as we see in Sade's dream. Notes, "'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_"
The ongoing investigation by police and other related agencies is unveiling, as expected, shocking facts about our insensibility to safety measures at the mass-transit system used by millions of commuters every day.
I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, of disrespect.
Bowden is a blood-and-guts journalist with a poet's sensibility, a noirish naturalist, a ferociously inquisitive witness to life's glory and horror torn between the desire to embrace the world and the need to hole up in a drapes-drawn motel room. Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing by Charles Bowden: Book summary
Jesus Corrales portrays the lovelorn Romeo with passion, sinking daggers into the heart of anybody in the audience with the slightest romantic sensibility.
The first time I heard his exact guitar picking and gentle voice I was hooked; the sophistication and pop sensibility of his songs left me fuzzy-warm.
The lie, which soon became an untruth (for people came genuinely to believe this ungenuine account), was that Keats's sensibility, his sensitivity, the thinness of his skin, and the coagulatory thickening within his troubled mind were responsible first for his abdication, so discouraged was he by the reception of his poems, and then for his death. Keats's Afterlife
That so many of Jun Takahashi's clothes for his Undercover label attest to the sensibility of a born designer but are adamantly geared for the street is proof that Mr. Takahashi has struck an essential balance. NYT > Home Page
Thank heaven! we meet with few minds like that of Sir Charles Verville; such a degree of savage insensibility is unnatural. The History of Emily Montague
Some were histrionic tragic performances dripping with sensibility. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
As self-appointed guardians of public sensibility, these organisations get to draw the line on what is acceptable.
English landscape, Austen offers a sort of test case that asks how the sensibility endorsed by the eighteenth-century novel fares in quotidian England. Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper
This is a process from sensibility to reasonable, and a logicality, and from phenomenon to essence.
You should marry intellect with sensibility in dealing with it.
These include reimagined versions of the portrait bust, such as Jonathan Baldock's salt-dough heads decorated with cloth and hair (echoing the vaguely tribal sensibility of Ryan Mosley's paintings, with which they share a gallery) and Steven Claydon's mock-heroic demagogue, subverted by the peacock feather over one eye and the fact that the patina on the coppered surface was achieved by urinating on the sculpture. The State of Young Art in Britain
What it was hoped to achieve was to reduce the time to insensibility as far as was practical, not instantaneous insensibility, but what was practical under those conditions.
While clearly inspired by a Romantic sensibility, he is never quite free from the bonds of his precise, inquiring, magpie mind.
They were strangers to that grace of wisdom which is liberally given to all who ask it; and their insensibility was all the more inexcusable that so many miracles had been performed which might have led to a certain conviction of the presence and the power of God with them. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
His taste for images dated from his novitiate and is marked by a sensibility comparable to that of the nuns he later governed.
Refinement and sensibility as well as simplicity are still the best standards of web design!
His Swan Lake sets and costumes, informed not just by the overripe sensibility of the Pre-Raphaelites but also by Gustave Moreau and other decadents, look breathtaking on paper.
Just the pampered young minion of any Tuscan court, a precocious wrappage of wit, good manners, and sensibility, he looked what he spoke, the exquisite Florentine, to these broad-vowelled Venetian lasses; did not smile, but seemed never out of temper; and was certainly not timid. Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
But this _insensibility_, this heartlessness, gives very much the effect of a positive and real ill nature, and M. Bergson had thus simply repeated and expressed in a new way, more precise and correct, the opinion of Aristotle: the cause of laughter is malice mitigated by insensibility or the absence of sympathy. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
But, unlike the old circus shows with their clowns and candyfloss, this performance is governed by a sophisticated theatrical sensibility.
Its methods should encompass intuition, emotional engagement, and other cognitive styles associated with a feminine sensibility.
His strange mannerisms and goofy asides are amusing, and he has a comedian's sensibility for wanting to keep the audience at home interested.
Higonnet suggests that in the pursuit of universalist fraternity, however, Jacobin language lost its original libertarian meaning and that Jacobinism became a kind of sectarian religion as it moved from sensibility to ideology.
Over the course of seven albums since 1996, they have quietly become one of the UK's most popular bands, adored for their exquisite pop sensibility and lyrics that not only owned a kind of tragi-comic precision but that were also sharply, sorrowfully beautiful. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style
Another class of bodies also concerns our subject: the special sensitisers used by the photographer to modify the spectral distribution of sensibility of the haloid salts, _e. g._ eosine, fuchsine, cyanine. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
These four faculties of the sensorium during their inactive state are termed irritability, sensibility, voluntarily, and associability; in their active state they are termed as above irritation, sensation, volition, association. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
_Endolaryngeal extirpation_ of papillomata in children requires no anesthetic, general or local; the growths are devoid of sensibility. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
Late Autumn might have with its predecessor, the similarities are more significant, particularly a quality that Michael Atkinson attributed to Ozu's Zen-infused sensibility translates on film to something like the art form's nascent formal beauty: patiently watching little happen, and the meditative moments around the nonhappening, until it becomes crashingly apparent that lives are at stake and the whole world is struggling to be born. ' GreenCine Daily
The Spanish conquest brought with it a completely different architectural sensibility.
The situation in which she found her was truly alarming, for the shock she had sustained seemed to have overwhelmed every superior faculty; she appeared the very statue of despair; she neither moved, spoke, nor wept; and that sensibility which was ever alive to the afflictions of others was smothered to stupifaction in her gentle bosom. The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
This seems quite strange to the modern sensibility, which associates organised travel purely with relaxation and pleasure.
The other two potentialities described in the Sankhya philosophy, rajas, physical dynamism and tamas, insensibility, are rendered ineffective.
The originality, the indefatigability, the uncanny sense of self-promotion, the converting of art into sensibility, put him, it seems to me, into the most rarefied circle.
Commend me to what you call the insensibility of the Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
Yet he doesn't betray the rigorous sensibility and intelligence that is his hallmark.
A combination of refined sensibility and urban ignorance of nature prevented them from discerning certain glaring facts that betrayed his caprid origin. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
They eagerly turned to literature printed in the East to acquire fluency in the expressive, if nonverbal, rhetoric made possible by this new sensibility.
Those indications which the physicians receive, and those presagitions which they give for death or recovery in the patient, they receive and they give out of the grounds and the rules of their art; but we have no such rule or art to give a presagition of spiritual death and damnation upon any such indication as we see in any dying man; we see often enough to be sorry, but not to despair; we may be deceived both ways: we use to comfort ourself in the death of a friend, if it be testified that he went away like a lamb, that is, without any reluctation; but God knows that may be accompanied with a dangerous damp and stupefaction, and insensibility of his present state. Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
The difference between scrophulous tumours, and those before described, consists in this; that in those either glands of different kinds were diseased, or the mouths only of the lymphatic glands were become torpid; whereas in scrophula the conglobate glands themselves become tumid, and generally suppurate after a great length of time, when they acquire new sensibility. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
He is a child in sensibility, while a youth in the vividness, and a man in the grasp, the piercingness and the copiousness of his thoughts. The Opium Habit
No one with sensibility would buy the book.
Sargent's sensibility is all about the feelings unleashed by unusual combinations of unalike colors.
This shift in sensibility toward orality is not a single literary movement, as it has sometimes been misconstrued.
Zeno's and Emilio's aboulic personalities, their incapability of pursuing and sustaining an active participation in life, reflect Svevo's tragic sensibility of life as a disaster and his meditation on vulnerability and death, filtered through the looking glass of bitter-sweet irony mixed with ineffective wisdom.
The two men share a certain poetic sensibility, a love of metaphor.
Then tonight I’m going to watch the Sense and Sensibility miniseries with John, which should be cool, except that my use of the term scallawag just there has given me a real urge to break out the Mount Gay and watch Pirates of the Caribbean. My brain asplode « paper fruit
There is a wider, non-legal sensibility through which people identify injury by adhering to physical symptoms, to familiar relationships, to the remoteness or proximity of harm.
Both have the chief note of Sensibility, the taking an emotion as a thing to be savoured and degusted deliberately -- to be dealt with on scientific principles and strictly according to the rules of the game. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
It is almost the contrary: signification has its incipience in transcendence; transcendence is the intersubjective quality of sensibility. Emmanuel Levinas
It's a rewrite but the sensibility is all present and correct.
It was obvious now… each time I thought about my relationship with Kiley, I justified it by Carter's insensibility.
Mr. Reid has brought his pugilistic sensibility to his career ... link Actually, knowing a little bit about this guy, the word wiener should be in there somewhere. Archive 2006-11-01
Looking out at their faces, I saw sensibility, intelligence and curiosity.
It's about a certain kind of sensibility - fear and sensitivity in the modern world.
Such towering strength can go with a certain limitation of sensibility, but hardly here. Times, Sunday Times
It is about fleecing people blind and taking money on any pretext without any real sense of sensibility around it whatsoever.
Best of all, she's got a playful sensibility that keeps the covers from getting bogged down in overwrought gravitas, no matter the subject. Jo Chen covers kick ass | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
My eyes overflow, my dear Pauline; and Maitland will chide me for indulging what he calls a pernicious sensibility. The Unexpected Legacy
Most importantly, it will require market research firms to develop a new vocabulary and new sensibility.
There's a hangover sensibility that tattoos are "disrespectable," says Atkinson, 39, who has two full sleeves and a chest tattoo. Thestar.com - Home Page
These men represent the old guard faithfully, but with a new-era sensibility that combines pleasing lines and tight midsections with drum-tight conditioning.
What might be called passional sensibility -- desire, emotion, impulse -- is, like physical sensation, another indispensable factor in evolution; it is the special element in the development of the animal kingdom as well as of the less evolved portion of the human kingdom. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
These ocular spectra are of four kinds: 1st, Such as are owing to a less sensibility of a defined part of the retina; or _spectra from defect of sensibility. _ 2d, Such as are owing to a greater sensibility of a defined part of the retina; or _spectra from excess of sensibility_. 3d, Such as resemble their object in its colour as well as form; which may be termed Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
That sensibility is inevitably - and necessarily manifest in the components and joinery of the building.
Graphic designer Paul Thurlby brings a distressed retro-modern sensibility to capital letters with "Paul Thurlby's Alphabet" Templar, 64 pages, $16.99 , a stylish take on the traditional abecedarian primer. Tales of Snow and Blue Horses
These four faculties of the sensorium during their inactive state are termed irritability, sensibility, voluntarity, and associability; in their active state they are termed as above irritation, sensation, volition, association. Note II
Another class of bodies also concerns our subject: the special sensitisers used by the photographer to modify the spectral distribution of sensibility of the haloid salts, _e. g._ eosine, fuchsine, cyanine. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
Their pop sensibility, spangly make-up and subversiveness bemused, charmed and totally won me over.
It's just the kind of inspired power-to-the-people sensibility that can rouse some good ol'-fashioned politicking - even after the fact, you lazy bums.
I am very solicitous, both by study and argument, to enlarge this privilege of insensibility, which is in me naturally raised to a pretty degree, so that consequently I espouse and am very much moved with very few things. The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
Mature gentlemen should cultivate some sensibility and awareness of the aesthetics of these things.
It felt right to do something with a strong pop sensibility. The Sun
The brick, tile, courtyard, residence and citizen are not only the architectural and cultural inspissation of old Chengdu, but also the place of sensibility of old Chengdu.
Those sentiments of love, which fathers and mothers have for their children -- those feelings of affection, which children, with good inclinations, bear towards their parents, are by no means _innate sentiments_; they are nothing more, than the effect of experience, of reflection, of habit, in souls of sensibility. The System of Nature, Volume 1
Such cut severs all the great blood vessels of the neck, and produces instantaneous insensibility in the animal.
He praised her, therefore, for qualities he wished her to possess, encouraged her to reject general opinions by admiring as the symptoms of a superior understanding, the convenient morality upon which she had occasionally acted; and, calling sternness justice, extolled that for strength of mind, which was only callous insensibility. The Italian
It used to be assumed anyone of sensibility or intelligence had to be on the Left.
La Brea — a wide boulevard lined with furniture stores, antique shops, and the occasional shopfront with "Psychic" scrawled across the glass — was imbued with the same impermanency like many of the blocks south of Hollywood, where brick veneer mixed with a frontier-town sensibility. Soul
A graphic and sculptural sensibility provides a stable platform for the artist to explore his chosen subject with line, form and material.
Her spokeswoman said: ‘Ms Andrews firmly believes that while the entire world is in mourning, it would be an expression of insensibility on her part to participate in a festive act.’
Consumer have three emotion hierarchy: sensibility, significance and narrate in packing container.
This certainly isn't Dark Knight territory, but for Ritchie, who brings such a unique sensibility to albeit modestly produced double-crossing capers, that is marked success by most accounts. RocknRolla Gets Early Praise - Guy Ritchie Confirms Sequels « FirstShowing.net
It is a corpus based on the assumption of the achievements of a European sensibility, steeped in cultural acquirements, aesthetic eclecticism and an accommodating receptivity of mind.
In insects we first find the distinct commencement of a separation between the muscular system, that is, organs of irritability, and the nervous system, that is, organs of sensibility; the former, however, maintaining a pre-eminence throughout, and the nerves themselves being probably subservient to the motory power. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
You are left wondering how anything as terrible as the anguish detailed in King's Crossing or Fond Farewell could inspire music this lovely, with its soaring choruses and beatific harmonies and irresistible pop sensibility.
What ensued inside the auditorium was a string of numbers sprung from a highly eclectic sensibility. Times, Sunday Times
But Prospero's insensibility to the nonhuman processes not merely behind and beyond the battlements, is ‘immune’ - as Prynne once wrote of the rain - ‘to all denial’.
I missed the excited talk of last year where our eagerness and innocent naivety overruled our sense of logic and sensibility.
How then could I write, when it was impossible but to attrist you! when I could speak of nothing but unparalleled horrors! and but awaken your sensibility, if it slumbered for a moment! The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
There is no such excuse for ABC’s Private Practice, a spinoff of Grey’s Anatomy, which is also on tonight and supposedly offers a postfeminist sensibility that is more playful and palatable than the overearnest women’s lib of the Lindsay Wagner generation. Wednesday
The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets" is a book about "the impact of that war on the sensibility of the artist"; it also sets out to show that Sassoon et al were not necessarily antiwar but antiheroism, as in the mocking title of one of Wilfred Owen's most famous poems, "Dulce et Decorum Est. Versed in the Horror of War
But composers have mostly had the sense and sensibility to steer clear of Jane. Times, Sunday Times
Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel [sic] and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving phantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose. Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics
Delight, instruction and satire, these are the characteristic traits of the 18th century British sensibility.
I ate little, said less, was happy, though overwhelmed with confusion, underwent a thousand agitations, some of which were painful, but by far the greater part belonged to rapture and delight; we were imparadised in the gratification of our mutual wishes, and felt all that love can bestow, and sensibility enjoy. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Did this drift so impress his youthful sensibility that he codified it as a rule of grammar?
No one with sensibility would buy the book.
There is a militant sort of anti-militarism (which still celebrates the military), a certain blue-collar sensibility (perhaps derived from Cameron's truck-driving days), a consistent techno-skepticism (driven by technophilia), an environmental concern, and very strong female characters. William Bradley: The Common Threads of Avatar
They have a good pop sensibility. The Sun
Johnson was valuable to Boswell because they were so unalike; Boswell submissive, Johnson domineering, Boswell a quivering jelly of sensibility, Johnson a solid mass of sense.
Am also loving the BBC adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, although Greg Wise was much dishier as Willoughby. I have been tagged
In this article it is the ‘moral sensibility’ that is of interest, and we consider the paintings not as literal records of historical or social experience but as documents of beliefs.
It is an effective process which induces immediate unconsciousness and insensibility or an induction to a period of unconsciousness without distress.
MANY German physicians and surgeons hold that there remains in the brain of a decollated head some degree of thought, and in the nerves something of sensibility. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3
His eventual recourse to a standard of five argues indifference or insensibility.
Gothicism is, she notes, the "art of the incredible" particularly in relation to technology, which has brought about "a general expansion and intensification of consciousness consistent with the gothic sensibility," along with an expansion of the Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject
He is a man of sensibility, and his benevolence pleases others and himself. The Times Literary Supplement
Anna opened the show with a chambray cape that had a demure military sensibility. Michelle Madhok: Get the Look of Anna Sui's Spring Collection for Under $50
We apply the term sensibility to the receptivity of the mind for impressions, in so far as it is in some way affected; and, on the other hand, we call the faculty of spontaneously producing representations, or the spontaneity of cognition, understanding. The Critique of Pure Reason
He has reproached me for what he terms my insensibility to his perfections, and says Turns of Fortune And Other Tales
This is, in effect, how British literature was utilized in India and elsewhere to interpellate Indian subjects with a uniquely British sensibility, and thus produce compliant colonial subjects under the ruse of spreading civilization. The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece
That, in addition to the ordinary manifestations of insensibility to pain, rigidity, and what is called clairvoyance, the patients affected with the more intense conditions of the malady have at all times exhibited a marvellous command of languages; The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
Some whose natural endowments would, under less unpropitious circumstances, qualify them to reach the summit of fame, are fettered by want of patronage and pecuniary distress, while others are cramped in their efforts by a complexional sensibility which they cannot overcome, and checked in enterprise by diffidence and timidity, the natural offspring of a refined and delicate structure. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
It suggests that he must possess a very particular, yet profoundly unclassifiable sensibility: that he must, in fact, be rather a good composer.
Chapters begin with alternating pictures of the main cast, some of them of a "pinup" sensibility. AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
Ackerman declines to discuss her own emotional resume, but does say airily, "I was born with a poet's sensibility, and Prozac made it impossible for me to do what comes naturally -- think metaphorically, allusively, exploring the hidden connection between seemingly unrelated things. Book Marks
Their films will be appreciated by children but display the kind of humour and sensibility that will endear them equally to adult viewers.
It's not glam, not in any way, and its vérité sensibility is its strength.
A retro-fit horn section like something from Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass heralds the arrival of romantic keyboard interludes that convey the easygoing sensibility of a polycotton blend.
This British duo continues to rock with alluring sensitivity and a plenitude of pop sensibility.
It is because their work is not so much literature as an insider's joke, and most serious readers don't read for risibility, but sensibility.
Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity. When Life Depends On Scrabble
such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility
The past had become tidied, translated, reinterpreted for a different sensibility. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Maybe it's just me who's decaying, sinking into a state of complete insensibility, and not knowing what to do to fix it.
He has avoided affronting unionist sensibility with tribal grievance against the English and there is no sign that he is motivated by such animus. SNP: Westminster needs to take Alex Salmond seriously | Observer editorial
As he's entered middle age, something noir and futuristic has entered his sensibility. Times, Sunday Times
Elegy's Elegy yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Elegy\'s Elegy'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The decline of the elegy betokens a certain loss of sensibility in the western world in the twentieth century, a loss described by Mircea Eliade as "desacralization". Elegy's Elegy
In my view best practice is based on the definition that we had earlier that it is least disturbance of the animal in its natural environment and it is the most rapid route to insensibility.
In the vegetable kingdom sensitiveness of an involuntary nature is discernible in the form of germination and growth while a still higher type of sensibility accompanied by a limited consciousness can be seen in the animal life.
They represent gentle scoldings of the modern sensibility; they remind us of our unparalleled capacity for complacency and myopia.
Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all thats precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of strawand t is thou who liftst him up to HEAVENeternal fountain of our feelings! 67. The Bourbonnois
Though not much stressed in the catalogue's writings, Dickinson's pronounced estheticism is key to his sensibility.
Visual sensibility is a prerequisite of art appreciation, and a genuine aesthetic experience is both self-sufficient and disinterested.
Emma Thompson has revealed how she was caught up in an extraordinary 'luvvie' triangle after introducing her husband Greg Wise to Kate Winslet when they filmed Sense and Sensibility Home | Mail Online
To describe this as a delicate instrument might be inaccurate, if the term were used in relation to other electrical instruments of extreme sensibility.
A similarly heightened, highly poetic, sensibility invades the etchings that began in the 1980s, black whorls and stippled textures fanatically worked, the artist relishing the "element of danger and mystery" that accompanies slipping a heavily worked plate into acid. Lucian Freud obituary
But, unlike the old circus shows with their clowns and candyfloss, this performance is governed by a sophisticated theatrical sensibility.
The ascendancy of the Steichen sensibility emerged only in the 1940s, when the precisionist-inspired realism of John Rawlings, whose crisply defined color images, at once sharp and subtle (Dahl-Wolfe was his closest counterpart), showed the dress with more clarity and detail than had any previous Vogue photographer. “Show the Dress”
Steiner's ludicrous generalizations stem inpart from the very notion of defining cultures and history in terms of a sensibility.
British soldiers often drank themselves into insensibility in the ‘wet canteen’.
Denim, linen, suede, and Italian suiting are the media in which his trademark sensibility for opulent detail is expressed.
Their anger with the corporation was ironically but nevertheless predictably an enlivenment of their musical sensibility, for their new album would be a declaration of independence from the establishment. Grace Slick The Biography
Technical information, and that quickness of apprehension which New Englanders call smartness, are not so valuable to a human being as sensibility to the beautiful, and a spontaneous appreciation of the divine influences which fill the realms of vision and of sound, and the world of action and, feeling. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
Anosmia [absence of the sense of smell] was defined as concentration levels zero to three, severe hyposmia [reduced sensibility to odors] as levels four to five, moderate hyposmia as levels six to eight, mild hyposmia as levels nine to 10 and normosmia [a normal sense of smell] as levels 11 to 12," the authors note. Kansas City infoZine Headlines
There is also always the challenge before a man of sensibility as to how many rings set with antique intaglios he can get onto his hands and still be able to move his fingers.
Only then can one understand and respond to her rural and romantic sensibility.

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