Spontaneous

Examples

• Hadn't they better be animals, simple animals, crude, violent, ANYTHING, rather than this self-consciousness, this incapacity to be spontaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is through these radiations that spontaneous transformation takes place. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He did not believe in spontaneous alterations, but found that every marked change in the quality of beer coincides with the development of micro-organism s. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The partial statement of natural development takes the primitive powers in an alleged spontaneous development as the end-all. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I was more grateful to Nugent than I can describe, for this most warm, uncalled-for, and spontaneous praise of my mother. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It is a significant and gratifying fact that Confederates should have joined heartily in this spontaneous move. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In this sort of activity he had a spontaneous and irrepressible delight. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Research is stimulated, actively aroused, and a passionate zeal suffuses what is perhaps the most spontaneous reform enthusiasm of our time. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The spontaneous development of our organs and capacities constitutes the education of Nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But the notion of a spontaneous normal development of these activities is pure mythology. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• All he said was so free from effort and spontaneous and was said with such a captivating gaiety that it was fascinating to hear him talk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yet it never appeared misplaced or forced, being always heartily simple, spontaneous, and genuine. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His errors are readily comprehensible, as, for example, in attributing spontaneous generation to eels, the habits and mode of reproduction of which only recent studies have made fully known. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But when you are engaged in scientific investigation, you try to reduce the spontaneous in life to a minimum. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If one cracked your skull perhaps one might get a spontaneous, passionate woman out of you, with real sensuality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He also adds that it is the best known species which present the greatest number of spontaneous varieties and sub-varieties. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is equally fatal to an aim to permit capricious or discontinuous action in the name of spontaneous self-expression. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Or is it better to leave them untouched, spontaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His knowledge of the propagation of animals was, however , not sufficient to make him reject the belief in spontaneous generation from mud, sand, foam, and dew. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• As to spontaneous recognition--though I, perhaps, was still less changed than he--the idea never approached his mind, and why should I suggest it? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It seems to me purely spontaneous and beautiful, the modern Italian's PASSION, for it is a passion, for Italy, L'Italia--' 'Do you know Italy well? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I come of my own spontaneous act. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It's not a case of spontaneous, but it's smouldering combustion it is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But the moral is not to leave them alone to follow their own spontaneous development, but to provide an environment which shall organize them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They turn with all the more zest to some spontaneous human interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You'd be verily deliberately spontaneous--that's you. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This may be attributed partly to the principle of correlated growth, and partly to so-called spontaneous variation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The former is spontaneous, naive, and simple. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Especially does he believe that there is an independent and, as he says, spontaneous development of the native organs and faculties. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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