Aspects

Examples

• Birkin decided that he detested toasts, and footmen, and assemblies, and mankind altogether, in most of its aspects. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A system so various in its structure has many contradictory aspects, some very attractive, and some very repellent to a liberal intelligence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And what has been said about appreciation means that every study in one of its aspects ought to have just such ultimate significance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Where there were distinct differences, the difficulty was met by saying that these were different _aspects_ of the same god. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• His blood is infected, and objects lose their natural aspects in his sight. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Focusing and ordering are thus the two aspects of direction, one spatial, the other temporal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I cannot think I was a very dangerous character in any of these aspects, but in all of them I carried the same warning on my back. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Our wars, our social conflict, our enormous economic stresses, are all aspects of that adjustment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Certainly, the exemplary Mrs. Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For human nature in all its profounder aspects changes very little in the few generations since our Western wisdom has come to be recorded. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Sincerely as I loathed the man, the prodigious strength of his character, even in its most trivial aspects, impressed me in spite of myself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Adams, already referred to as facile princeps the typical telegrapher in all his more sociable and brilliant aspects. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Some Social Aspects of the Question. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Two aspects of this more general and freer availability of former experiences for subsequent ones may be distinguished. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was a cycle of aspects, produced by a cycle of visions. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Life differs from all things whatever that are without life in certain general aspects. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Happily Van Alstyne prided himself on his summing up of social aspects, and with Selden for audience was eager to show the sureness of his touch. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• For exa mple, we may say that the apple falls because it is heavy, or we may substitute synonymous phraseology that helps us to view the falling apple in its un iversal aspects. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Even in its most archaic aspects there was in Christianity something new. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Interest and discipline are correlative aspects of activity having an aim. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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