The chief objection to them is, that the diligent narrator may lack space, or (what is often the same thing) may not be able to think of them with any degree of particularity, though he may have a philosophical confidence that if known they would be illustrative.
Featherstone's heir; that old gentleman's pride in him, and apparent fondness for him, serving in the stead of more exemplary conduct—just as when a youthful nobleman steals jewellery we call the act kleptomania, speak of it with a philosophical smile, and never think of his being sent to the house of correction as if he were a ragged boy who had stolen turnips.
" And here I must vindicate a claim to philosophical reflectiveness, by remarking that Mr.
Scrap, who had become melancholy at the sight of Briggs, became philosophical at the sight of Arundel.
Australian psychologist Joseph Forgas conducted a study where subjects read a short philosophical essay with a picture showing either an older man or a younger woman.
We have constructed elaborate religious and philosophical narratives around this assumption and built our identity along the notion that life is unique to Earth.
23/11-21/12 Optimistic, freedom-loving, jovial, good-humored, honest, straightforward, intellectual and philosophical.
Essentially a Daoist in his philosophical outlook on life and death, he also freely adopted the elements of Confucianism and Buddhism that most appealed to him.
Dong's "Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals" is one of the most important philosophical works of the Han period.
They may share something philosophical, funny or silly.
This all puts me in mind of the Peripatetics, followers of Aristotle, who conducted their philosophical inquiries while strolling about the Lyceum in ancient Athens.
Among them is an attempt to focus a train of thought around a philosophical problem, or to seek aspirational motivation.
Koolhaas's Prada shop opened in downtown Manhattan, the critic Herbert Muschamp noted Prada's philosophical roots in Arte Povera.
The study has been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
This all puts me in mind of the Peripatetics, followers of Aristotle, who conducted their philosophical inquiries while strolling about the Lyceum in ancient Athens.
There was a philosophical component, one that was related to his penchant for control.
" The disagreements were more than just philosophical; they became clashes of personality.
A philosophical guy who could be both playful and ponderous, Raskin had studied computer science, taught music and visual arts, conducted a chamber opera company, and organized guerrilla theater.
"He was more philosophical than the other people I worked with," Bushnell recalled.
"It was a lot of fun," said Kottke, "but also philosophical, and we took Zen very seriously.
