Realizing

Examples

• The trouble was that without realizing it I too had been in search of the philosopher's stone. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The question is now as to its status as a means of realizing something else, which is then the invaluable of that situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• More men are capable of realizing this than was ever possible at any previous time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After a time Faust, realizing perhaps that Gutenberg was in reality the inventor of the art which he was beginning to find so lucrative, came to him, and asked his forgiveness. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It all depends upon the context of perceived connections in which it is placed; the reach of imagination in realizing connections is inexhaustible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The burden of realizing the intellectual possibilities inhering in work is thus thrown back on the school. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Realizing how men and women feel at all levels and at different places, he must speak their discontent and project their hopes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was desirous of realizing upon his inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The terms mental realization and appreciation (or genuine appreciation) are more elaborate names for the realizing sense of a thing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I exclaimed, and then, suddenly realizing how he had echoed the inmost thought of my soul, I sat up in my chair and stared at him in blank amazement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He remembered now noticing, without realizing it, that Pablo's trousers were worn soapy shiny in the knees and thighs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Realizing the hostility to any improvement on the part of the cotton-spinners, he gave out that he was engaged in building a machine to solve the world-old problem of perpetual motion. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The mighty force of the dynamo entering the electric motors on the street cars turns the wheels and transports its load with scarcely a passenger inside realizing how it is all done. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We now approach a period when more decided advances and more rapid progress were made towards realizing steam navigation as a practical fact. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Each in its time and place is absolutely necessary, because a stage in the self-realizing process of the absolute mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For a long time the church went from prince to prince for an ally without realizing that the lost ally it needed to recover was popular veneration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Editor: Maris