How To Use Vicissitude In A Sentence
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If that isn't an antidote to the vicissitudes of life, then what is?
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Home is Burning is a deft piece of writing that captures the vicissitudes of family life whether in sickness or in health.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spacewalker represents an aspirational triumph over vicissitude and poverty.
Times, Sunday Times
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The origins and vicissitudes by which the field has passed have not always distinguished it from religion, alternative healing practices, superstition, and also charlatanism.
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Such poems can be new, one might say, because the vicissitudes and the strangeness of life are really inexhaustible.
The Times Literary Supplement
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From 1133 the office was hereditary in the de Vere family, though with interruptions and vicissitudes, until it passed in 1626 to their cousins the Berties, as Lords Willoughby de Eresby.
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An eternal optimist, proprietor Robert Finch has an amazing story to tell of the vicissitudes of farming emus.
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Once again we see how the fortunes of modern European science intertwined with the vicissitudes of colonial expansion.
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Over the millennia, cultures have changed very substantially as they have learned to cope with environmental vicissitudes.
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Even allowing for the vicissitudes of history, the complete disappearance of an entire scheme of state furniture is puzzling.
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More pioneering genres were undertaken as a result of social and political vicissitudes.
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When he had seen those stalwart beasts in their distant pastures and watched as they moved slowly toward him, white faces shining against red coats, he felt a knife-thrust of pain as he recalled the vicissitudes he and his family had brought upon this noble breed.
Centennial
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This contrast underscores the insulation which the Indian economy had enjoyed from the vicissitudes of world capitalism.
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If that is called imprudence, I wonder what would be called a thoughtful provision against the vicissitudes of fortune.
Fantastic Fables
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It seems to me that the stauncher first world proponents of globalisation feel a personal immunity from its vicissitudes.
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Despite its many vicissitudes, few in the business would swap their lifestyle for selling insurance.
Times, Sunday Times
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By then the house and its occupants have been through many vicissitudes.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the centre is a family and its vicissitudes from the end of the
Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 - Press Release
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And in the stall-fed life of the successful ant-heap — with its regular meals, regular duties, regular pleasures, an even course of life, and fear excluded — the vicissitudes, delights, and havens of today will seem of epic breadth.
Lay Morals
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They had been conversing about the magnificent old ruin, and the ages in which it had been built, and the vicissitudesof time and war, that had battered down its walls, and left it "tenantless, save to the crannying wind.
Hyperion
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Governments cannot protect citizens from all the circumstances and vicissitudes of life.
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Personally, with my Bizarro texts, I try to test the limits of narrative, create and entertain irreal characters and worlds, represent the absurdity of mediatized society and culture, explore the vicissitudes of unconsciousness and desire, and critique the nature of technocapitalist pseudoreality.
Nonfiction
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Its meaning and the content have differently along with time vicissitude.
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Macquarie, which is credited with coming up with the infrastructure model, designed these products specifically for Australia's ballooning pension assets and pitched them as investments that provide stable returns without falling victim to the vicissitudes of the global economy.
Shaking Up the 'Macquarie Model'
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He took refuge in booze and the beginnings of drug availability, and was headed, if not for catastrophe, at least for significant vicissitudes.
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He experienced several great social vicissitudes in his life.
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Writing for the Magazine from hospital, she ponders the vicissitudes of life in the spinal injury unit.
Times, Sunday Times
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With young singers, I am much easier, more understanding of situational limitations, emotional vicissitudes.
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Such a psychopathology would probably be more concerned with the development of the individual's sense of reality than with the vicissitudes of his infantile sexuality.
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If there's a common thread running through Payne's films it is a strong sardonic sense of humour through which characters embrace life's vicissitudes.
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These are the vicissitudes of all life forms, including humans.
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After many vicissitudes, the brothers Mann and their ill-assorted wives, Katia and Nelly, ended up in Los Angeles with Aldous Huxley and Bertolt Brecht.
House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review
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In any event, Malley began playing open stages, where crowds enthusiastically applauded her take on the vicissitudes of love.
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Yet the singer grew up watching what those did to her divorced parents, and has since seen her brother grappling with the vicissitudes of celebrity and fleeting chart success.
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The feature that stands out in this long life of suffering, of martyrdom in her early years and always of convulsion [Page 296] and vicissitudes, is perfect truth, perfect simplicity, and, it may be said, entire and unalterable consistency.
The Ruin of a Princess
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We have to accept the vicissitude sequent on a violated treaty.
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Mrs. Bell comments that the term vicissitudes does not occur in the text (and, I daresay, courtship and marriage do not occur as chapter headings, either).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4
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As I had not been so well known as a moralist, and had not the prepossessing advantage of a bald, benevolent head, nothing was done for me, and I was turned once more on the wide world, to moralize on the vicissitudes of fortune.
Paul Clifford — Complete
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These two characters have, one feels, an offstage life during which they rely on each other's support for the next vicissitude that is to befall them.
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Through the vicissitudes of life in a frontier province, Our Lady of Sion has remained the tutelary patroness of Lorraine.
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In some of the vicissitudes of the city's pride, or its calamity, the dark tide of human evil had swelled over it, far higher than the Tiber ever rose against the acclivities of the seven hills.
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England passed through certain vicissitudes, until in the sixteenth century she began a career of expansion.
The True Inwardness of the Yellow Peril
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This week's stellar configurations incline you towards a refreshingly flexible frame of mind - a lissome, limbo-dancing attitude to the vicissitudes of daily existence.
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Liberia has a representative system of gov- ernment, Negro jurymen, Negro magistrates, and Negro priests; churches have been built, newspapers established, and, by a singular turn in the vicissitudes of the world, white men are prohibited from establishing themselves within the settlement.49
Jena as de Tocqueville's "democracy" where Black Americans are a "threat" to Whites
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Mick seems typical of those noble people, the ethnic Irish in Britain, who retain a love of Ireland and face life's vicissitudes with a smile.
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Behind the ornate.Not the vicissitudes of life.But dirty.
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The respiratory system is particularly susceptible to the vicissitudes of our emotional life from a very early age.
The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
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After the death of Basil he experienced the vicissitudes of courts and the ingratitude of a royal pupil: the patriarch was again deposed, and in his last solitary hours he might regret the freedom of a secular and studious life.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In doing so they constitute a public and communal reflex of that private, complex, individual and highly personal process through which people cope with, and come to terms with, the vicissitudes of life.
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If they speak to women readers of their personal vicissitudes in a way that is helpful, if they offer incantations for women to use in time of trouble, so much the better.
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The respiratory system is particularly susceptible to the vicissitudes of our emotional life from a very early age.
The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
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After further vicissitudes she is still awaiting a further refit in Lowestoft.
Times, Sunday Times
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This week's stellar configurations incline you towards a refreshingly flexible frame of mind - a lissome, limbo-dancing attitude to the vicissitudes of daily existence.
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As regards all these three elements, De Quincey's childhood was prosperous; afterwards, vicissitudes came, -- mighty changes capable of affecting all other transmutations, but thoroughly impotent to annul the inwrought grace of a pre-established beauty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
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The House would also deeply sympathise with the Sovereign in deploring the vicissitudes to which a large and important portion of her subjects had been subjected, and in her admiration of the fortitude with which they had been sustained.
Opening of Parliament
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It lies in a well-furnished mind, in knowledge and perspective to help you through the vicissitudes of adult life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since 1744, when I left Rome, I have run many risks, encountered many perils, and endured many vicissitudes of fortune, unaided by those from whom I had the right to expect assistance, unsuccoured even by My Father.
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles
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No matter what fate threw his way - war, the vicissitudes of commerce, the long arm of illness - Jim lived every day as if it were his last.
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Their crass intrusion into these areas as the face of public authority claiming to protect women from the vicissitudes of interpersonal strife is destined to end in disaster.
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There are many good reasons to pray, but only one rises above the vicissitudes of life, above the vagaries of the emotional roller coaster we ride daily.
Christianity Today
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Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague.
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She quickly produced a series of light, frothy peeks into high society that proved successful with the public – The Vicissitudes of Evangeline, a series of vignettes detailing a young debutante’s observations of the love affairs of high society, which scandalized the reading public not by its subject, but by a scene where Evangeline is described as becoming in her lingerie!
Elinor Glyn and “Three Weeks” | Edwardian Promenade
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This was partly because, prior to these decades of vicissitudes, the early modern traditions were well established.
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He is as sharp a chronicler of the vicissitudes of love as he ever was.
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He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified.
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After further vicissitudes she is still awaiting a further refit in Lowestoft.
Times, Sunday Times
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In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain vicissitudes of fate.
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I know the injury, vicissitudes of the past, Cheng pulls you to see the eyes of the world.
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As you can see from the audience here (eg "vicissitudes", you can not fool them because they are well read and informed).
Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown.
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All cannot be happy at once; for, because the glory of one state depends upon the ruin of another, there is a revolution and vicissitude of their greatness, and must obey the swing of that wheel, not moved by intelligencies, but by the hand of God, whereby all estates arise to their zenith and vertical points, according to their predestinated periods.
Religio Medici
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The concern for security was also a major point when I moved in three years ago (more on its vicissitudes later).
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the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research
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Few men have more exquisitely tasted of glory and disgrace; nor could Juvenal (Satir. x.) produce a more striking example of the vicissitudes of fortune, and the vanity of human wishes.] 3 This last epithet of Procopius is too nobly translated by pirates; naval thieves is the proper word; strippers of garments, either for injury or insult,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Behind the ornate.Not the vicissitudes of life.But dirty.
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he very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts.
Think Progress » New York court nixes gay marriage.
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Critical opinion of his work has undergone the vicissitudes of prevailing tastes in art.
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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The form differs from the content, _history_ differs from the _reality_ of which it is the history, and morality is more than the story of its vicissitudes, of its gradual, painful development from the pre-historic times to our own.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
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Traffic was affected not only by the vicissitudes of the business cycle and the Panic of 1873 but also by flour mill explosions and even a plague of locusts.
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The mind craves to make something perdurable out of something as tenuous as candlelight, something that becomes more and more itself through vicissitude.
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Through the vicissitudes of life in a frontier province, Our Lady of Sion has remained the tutelary patroness of Lorraine.
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Of more immediate concern to the queen was probably the role of the monarchy itself and the vicissitudes of the royal family.
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The bridge is a genre painting, it is the national character and style, the historical vicissitude modern drama stage.
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Once again we see how the fortunes of modern European science intertwined with the vicissitudes of colonial expansion.
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First chapter elaborated education - through - labor historical vicissitude and the development tendency.
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Prevailing orthodoxy is that children are psychically frail creatures who require constant protection to cope with life's vicissitudes.
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And in the stall-fed life of the successful ant-heap — with its regular meals, regular duties, regular pleasures, an even course of life, and fear excluded — the vicissitudes, delights, and havens of today will seem of epic breadth.
Lay Morals
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I would build big positions in companies I loved and own them over time regardless of the short-term vicissitudes.
Jim Cramer's Real Money
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It's just a human machine for getting news out and subject to the normal vicissitudes of human flummery.
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The troubles and vicissitudes, however, through which it passed, were happily brought to an end by the wise rule of Abbot Benedict Sigrist, in the seventeenth century, who is justly called the restorer of his monastery.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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It is a modern parable of the vicissitudes of sport and how fleeting fame can be.
Times, Sunday Times
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The notion of freedom was redefined subjectively, as an inner state that can be maintained despite the vicissitudes of political life.
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Writing for the Magazine from hospital, she ponders the vicissitudes of life in the spinal injury unit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The worms took the vicissitudes of this future climate head on, preparing for the desalinization process, and selecting me.
Raft of Worms
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The first part tries to discuss the influences of the politics vicissitude on literature evolution.
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Finally, even for the most hardened drug user, the overdose of a close friend is likely to be a traumatic and significant event, more readily recalled than the ephemera and vicissitudes of daily drug activity.
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However, such were the vicissitudes of English fortunes that the link with wealth was far more complex than King and Defoe appeared to recognize.
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Indeed, at one point he had seemed a likely candidate to become Prime Minister, but the vicissitudes of politics had intervened.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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In a letter to his son written in 1537, he looked back on a life of vicissitude; "a thousand dangers and hazards, enmities, hatreds, prisonments, despites and indignations".
The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review
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The respiratory system is particularly susceptible to the vicissitudes of our emotional life from a very early age.
The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
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As the senior pathologist at the disposal of the Security Services, he was no stranger to the many vicissitudes that human flesh is heir to.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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It is possible there may have been several vicissitudes of changes wrought upon the same part of the Earth.
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It could have shared the owner's adventures and vicissitudes, occupied his leisure hours, cheered his bleaker moments.
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In the forth chapter, I narrated the transition and vicissitude of the Baimao wickerwork convention.
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Perhaps nothing can demonstrate the city's vicissitudes better than the changes of its landmarks.
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If the generous youth find not a companion to console him, weal is forever cut off from him and ill is eternally established with him; and there is nothing for the sage but to solace himself in every event with brethren and be constant in patience and endurance: indeed these two are praiseworthy qualities, and both uphold one under calamities and vicissitudes of the world and ward off startling sorrows and harrowing cares, come what will.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the decoration of the entablature of the colonnade, the skull of the ox repeated between the garlands recalls the vicissitudes of the pioneers in their long march across the continent.
The Jewel City
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In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain vicissitudes of fate.
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He was content to remain totally unfamiliar with the vicissitudes of experimental research.
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The respiratory system is particularly susceptible to the vicissitudes of our emotional life from a very early age.
The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
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Be sure to include "vicissitudes" at 10: 19 last night, who made what I looks like the most blatant call for a candidate to be shot.
Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race
