Situations

Examples

• It was very funny, full of amusing and absurd situations; but Gould never smiled once. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• How little practice he had had in dealing with unusual situations! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• These three relations are identity, the situations in time and place, and causation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Nor I, answered Marianne with energy, our situations then are alike. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• There is a definite way of understanding the situations in which the habit operates. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You have, undoubtedly; and there are situations in which very high spirits would denote insensibility. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He is developing his idea gradually in a series of positions or situations. Plato. The Republic.
• But usually--at least in complicated situations--acting upon it brings to light conditions which had been overlooked. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Till they are applied in these situations they lack full point and reality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In some particular local situations it is quite otherwise, and the rent and profit of grass are much superior to what can be made by corn. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Except in particular situations, therefore, the rent of corn land regulates in Europe that of all other cultivated land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If _we_ set the example, many will follow it as far as they can; though all have not our situations. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Recognition of the natural course of development, on the contrary, always sets out with situations which involve learning by doing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To rant, to rave, to be tragic, to make situations--it was all too late. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They are standpoints and methods for dealing with situations of experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In such situations we can scarce expect to find even a smith, a carpenter, or a mason, within less than twenty miles of another of the same trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics; and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Situations do not literally repeat themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We are enabled, symbolically and imaginatively, to anticipate situations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Our situations have borne little resemblance. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The physical equipment and arrangements of the average schoolroom are hostile to the existence of real situations of experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She ought to goand she was longing to see her; the resemblance of their present situations increasing every other motive of goodwill. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But you have not an idea of what is requisite in situations directly opposite to your own. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Lily knew well enough how to bear herself in difficult situations. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Still I must distinguish myself from those in the like unfortunate situations, by strict probity and love of truth. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• There was an immediate choice of situations offered to Mr. Thornton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I often referred the several situations, as their similarity struck me, to my own. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• All resolved to secure better situations on the next meeting, that they might profit by so fine and affecting a discourse. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It is the functioning of an abstraction in its application to a new concrete experience,--its extension to clarify and direct new situations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In social situations the young have to refer their way of acting to what others are doing and make it fit in. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Edited by Adela