Directs

Examples

• In general, every stimulus directs activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Sir Leicester directs his majestic glance down one side of the long drawing-room and up the other before he can believe that he is awake. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The emphasis which directs his thinking bears most heavily upon the mechanics of life--only perfunctorily upon the ability of the men who are to use them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We may secure technical specialized ability in algebra, Latin, or botany, but not the kind of intelligence which directs ability to useful ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The lady who built the new part of this house as that tablet records, and whose son overlooks and directs everything here. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He directs the experimenter, for example, to take a piece of loadstone of convenient size and turn it o n a lathe to the form of a ball. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This directs their action to a common result, and gives an understanding common to the participants. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Effort moves it, intelligence directs it; its fate is in human hands. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If I think of it at all, I connect it with my son, and feel how all belongs to him, and that his is the head that directs it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This loadstone is under the care of certain astronomers, who, from time to time, give it such positions as the monarch directs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The educator's part in the enterprise of education is to furnish the environment which stimulates responses and directs the learner's course. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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