Constructive

Examples

• On such occasions an interesting opportunity is offered to study Edison in his intense and constructive moods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This labor movement has a destructive and constructive energy within it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is the constructive, creative power which raises man above the level of the beast and enables him to devise and fashion wonderful inventions. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• What Wisconsin had was leadership and a people that responded, inventors, and constructive minds. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That is the constructive approach to the problem. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Other French racing bicycles were no doubt in existence, but there is no history which can ascribe any truly constructive innovations in motorcycle making to any foreign country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The new biological science was bringing nothing constructive as yet to replace the old moral stand-bys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But we may well consider these reconstructions as contributory essays and experiments in the general constructive effort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Constructive business has no end of reactionary moments----the most striking, perhaps, is when it buys up patents in order to suppress them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Sensationalism is highly unfitted for this constructive task. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• So encumbered, the Assembly set about its constructive task. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He also becomes more dogmatic and constructive, passing beyond the range either of the political or the speculative ideas of the real Socrates. Plato. The Republic.
• He was far more of a constructive political thinker than Gautama or Lao Tse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Judge Lindsey is another--a fine, constructive children's judge compelled to be a politician. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Many animals possess the five senses, but only man possesses constructive, creative power, and is able to build on the information gained through the senses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He begins with an account of La Follette--of a man with initiative and a constructive bent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When some constructive proposal is being agitated before a legislative committee, it is customary to unite the movements in support of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I have lived with politicians,--with socialist politicians whose good-will was abundant and intentions constructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Rightly understood, the idea behind the words contains all that is valuable in conservatism, and, for the first time, gives a reputable meaning to that tortured epithet constructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Within that party, therefore, a leadership is required which will ride the forces of syndicalism and use them for a constructive purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The utterly uncriticised assumption that all expressions not legalized are sinful shut them off from any constructive answer to their problem. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This supplies us with a standard for judging reforms, and so makes clear what constructive action really is. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Note how vague and general are the chance constructive suggestions; how precise and definite the taboos. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It would turn the increasing fund of social sympathy to constructive account, instead of leaving it a somewhat blind philanthropic sentiment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Whoever is working to express special energies is part of a constructive revolution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But the work of education is constructive, not critical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As soon as the first enthusiasm for freedom waned, the weakness of the theory upon the constructive side became obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This surely is a constructive plan which might well be enlarged from mere protection to positive hospitality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But nothing must be staked upon them, so let us turn at once to the constructive suggestions: The Commission proposes that the county establish a Permanent Committee on Child Protection. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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