Response

Examples

• She let go his hand: he had made not the lightest response. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One does not blush to show modesty or embarrassment to others, but because the capillary circulation alters in response to stimuli. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Holmes's response was a curious one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They knocked once, and they rang once, without any response. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Such feelings meet with a response in the Republic of Plato. Plato. The Republic.
• There was no response from that which had been Gerald. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I called her name aloud again and again, but there was no response. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The question was submitted to Washington, and no response was received until after the army had reached the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I returned an encouraging response. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Put the other way around, a response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Such a conception contradicts our basic idea that character and mind are attitudes of participative response in social affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Bodies which respond in this way are said to be sympathetic and the response produced is called _resonance_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Early Buddhism was certainly producing noble lives, and it is not only through reason that the latent response to nobility is aroused in our minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Confusedly in response to that demand, bold men, wise men, shrewd and cunning men were arising to become magicians, priests, chiefs, and kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Richard had received a similar letter and had made a similar response. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Hale sipped his tea in abstracted silence; Margaret had the responses all to herself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The answer, in general formulation, is: By means of the action of the environment in calling out certain responses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This distrust of the teacher's experience is then reflected in lack of confidence in the responses of pupils. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The environment can at most only supply stimuli to call out responses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But intellectual growth means constant expansion of horizons and consequent formation of new purposes and new responses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was a hard case, upon my word; and, I do think you were very much to be pitied, were the kind responses of listening sympathy. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He would hear services intoned before this divinity, and certain precepts, which would be dimly familiar to him, murmured as responses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some responses are secured, but desires and affections not enlisted must find other outlets. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Again, I listen to Miss Murdstone mumbling the responses, and emphasizing all the dread words with a cruel relish. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Repeated responses to recurrent stimuli may fix a habit of acting in a certain way. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His responses grow intelligent, or gain meaning, simply because he lives and acts in a medium of accepted meanings and values. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Food, bits and bridles, noises, vehicles, are used to direct the ways in which the natural or instinctive responses of horses occur. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Here, she quite forgot that it was Pa's turn to make the responses, and clung to his neck. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You daren't do it in your responses at Church, and you mustn't do it in your responses out of Church. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My best feelings were called into play to give fitting responses to the generosity, wisdom, and amenity of my new friend. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Edited by Angus