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Sentence Examples The piece conveys the sense of an urgent, fully focused formal sensibility at work. Those of us who knew this other Clyde, this man of strong emotional sensibility, are grateful for the experience. Such dumbing-down of aesthetic sensibility is a triumph for the corporate sledgehammer that has so bedazzled him. Yet he doesn't betray the rigorous sensibility and intelligence that is his hallmark. He knew full well that his friend was beginning to lose his sensibility but the pain still had a bitter sting. Threshold tests of sensibility correlated accurately with symptoms of nerve compression. What was most striking to an outsider's sensibility was the impression that the ferocity of the battle for power was matched only by its vacuity. Its methods should encompass intuition, emotional engagement, and other cognitive styles associated with a feminine sensibility. He sought to materialize this transgressive imaginative sensibility in both his fiction and non-fiction. More illustrational than painterly in feel, they are still further evidence of Joyce's playful sensibility. Did this drift so impress his youthful sensibility that he codified it as a rule of grammar? The right in Switzerland has grown out of a peculiarly Swiss sensibility which is unlike any other in Europe. This is a classic gnome placement that has a Midwestern sensibility as well as a minimalistic charm that hits you right in the breadbasket. I missed the excited talk of last year where our eagerness and innocent naivety overruled our sense of logic and sensibility. Rhenisch, a poet to his bones, is a new world essayist with an old world sensibility. Refinement and sensibility as well as simplicity are still the best standards of web design! Sargent's sensibility is all about the feelings unleashed by unusual combinations of unalike colors. It may be that the problem was immoveable for a European sensibility in a New World heart. It acts on one like a bludgeon until one's sensibility is pummelled flat and one's heart goes dead. The movie theater became a refuge for the boy, and he began to read films through that sensibility. Show More Sentences It opens with three hard-hitting, outspoken songs that seamlessly combine a folk-rock sensibility with a sizzling hip-hop tempo. Although the family returned to England in 1933, Spike retained the sensibility of an outsider, an iconoclast and a rebel. As self-appointed guardians of public sensibility, these organisations get to draw the line on what is acceptable. The pale short-lived summer is central to the Swedish sensibility, and few have expressed its gentle melancholy with greater eloquence. His life and work existed out of time, marrying innovation to an old-time American sensibility with a singular sense of humor like precious few. His clothes are an example of how young designers emphasize chic yet maintain an urban sensibility. My sensibility has been shaped as much by movies and television and pop music as it has by books. There are worthy meats, too, although done with an edgier, cheffy sensibility. Though not much stressed in the catalogue's writings, Dickinson's pronounced estheticism is key to his sensibility. What then is the difference between Minimalism and other expressions of the reductive sensibility? Perhaps gravitation toward his approach depends more on your sensibility than his. Denim, linen, suede, and Italian suiting are the media in which his trademark sensibility for opulent detail is expressed. He had long been a fan of comic graphic novels, and he recognised that sensibility. Their pop sensibility, spangly make-up and subversiveness bemused, charmed and totally won me over. This British duo continues to rock with alluring sensitivity and a plenitude of pop sensibility. Yet the power of our civic religion lies not in any sanctions it imposes but in the moral sensibility it nurtures. Filtering the genre model through a gay sensibility served to burst the romantic bubble that concealed the subtexts. Most importantly, it will require market research firms to develop a new vocabulary and new sensibility. The anarchic sensibility of your early films seems to display that same enthusiasm. He also inherited a pacifist sensibility, which was why he refused to do National Service and worked instead as a hospital orderly for two years. Show More Sentences Such an opinion reflected a new racial sensibility among many Anglos in the Southwest. Thus his theatre does not attempt to dazzle or overwhelm the individual sensibility, but to stimulate it to new insights and sympathies. A graphic and sculptural sensibility provides a stable platform for the artist to explore his chosen subject with line, form and material. It is because their work is not so much literature as an insider's joke, and most serious readers don't read for risibility, but sensibility. His strange mannerisms and goofy asides are amusing, and he has a comedian's sensibility for wanting to keep the audience at home interested. But while his career path suggests a precociously mature musical sensibility, his debut solo album counters any such notion. When he crosses over to painting from his preferred medium of printmaking, his sensibility is divergent and different. In these paintings, a formalist sensibility seems to have been invaded by cosmic forces. This shift in sensibility toward orality is not a single literary movement, as it has sometimes been misconstrued. But, unlike the old circus shows with their clowns and candyfloss, this performance is governed by a sophisticated theatrical sensibility. Only gradually in the course of this period were polities defined in clear terms of territory and explicit geographical sensibility. While clearly inspired by a Romantic sensibility, he is never quite free from the bonds of his precise, inquiring, magpie mind. Crayon, oil, colored pencil, and poster paint lend the work a saturated, hyperbolic sensibility. Delight, instruction and satire, these are the characteristic traits of the 18th century British sensibility. She is neither a moralist nor a tendentiously political artist, although her work is informed by an unmistakably feminist sensibility. There is no more distinctive marker of the conservative sensibility than accurate use of the subjunctive mood in speech. His taste for images dated from his novitiate and is marked by a sensibility comparable to that of the nuns he later governed. Does anybody else think the winning jockey's Cheltenham salute as they pass the post is getting beyond the bounds of sensibility and safety? When my boy grows to become a thinking person, with conscience and sensibility, am I the man I want him to see me as? However, nondigital sensory input may be used for some grip control during impaired digital sensibility. Show More Sentences A collection is a revealing reflection of the taste discrimination of the collector and of his aesthetic sensibility. This seems quite strange to the modern sensibility, which associates organised travel purely with relaxation and pleasure. It is about fleecing people blind and taking money on any pretext without any real sense of sensibility around it whatsoever. Elinor has her full complement of sensibility, though her capacity and her cause for suffering is late to be borne in on her inattentive family. This game appealed to every aspect of my intellect and aesthetic sensibility. This is a school which has been hated by any pupil of any intelligence or sensibility for as long as it has existed. The Spanish conquest brought with it a completely different architectural sensibility. Mature gentlemen should cultivate some sensibility and awareness of the aesthetics of these things. Such immersion in the language and ways of the Andalusian countryside profoundly influenced his sensibility. The inability to hold down a job is no longer seen as a moral failing, but as a sign of heightened sensibility. A remarkable combination of artistic sensibility, tact and emotional precision is at work here. As it was, there was absolutely no aesthetic sensibility at work whatsoever. At the heart of the discourse lay the attempt to define the western sensibility of this emotion as against the oriental. It used to be assumed anyone of sensibility or intelligence had to be on the Left. Only then can one understand and respond to her rural and romantic sensibility. An aesthetic sensibility encourages a child to look for harmony, colour and gentleness all around. Chinese artists show unique sensibility and emotion in their observation. The two men share a certain poetic sensibility, a love of metaphor. Penelope is closer in sensibility to an anodyne sitcom than a precocious bildungsroman. An astrophysicist with a poetic sensibility, she hooked me in our first interview with her direct manner and determination. Show More Sentences He stayed up all night, looking at the streets he had biked around as a kid with a whole new sensibility. The routine, workaday books that keep rolling off printing machines and that one lives and works with today share very little of that quality, or that sensibility. The ladies brought their A game with smarts, female sensibility, and sass showing in spades. It's a rewrite but the sensibility is all present and correct. Williams makes any stage her own, bringing her homey, Southern sensibility to any setting, be it an Austin roadhouse or an Upper West Side theater. Somewhere between circus and living sculpture, it has the thrills and spills of the big top, the aesthetic sensibility of ballet and a hint of louche cabaret. Jesus Corrales portrays the lovelorn Romeo with passion, sinking daggers into the heart of anybody in the audience with the slightest romantic sensibility. Hitchcock's sensibility was being shaped by the German Expressionist masters. He brought a sensibility to late-night TV that nobody else had anywhere in the broadcast day. She tackles weighty subjects with a naive sensibility and faux-innocence, but skillfully avoids dumbing them down. Lifestyle, or sensibility, is the dominant commodity, clothing the subliminal message. That sense of melioration, strong in many Americans, that things can be accomplished for the good of others, is ultimately repulsive to Thayler's distinct moral sensibility. Looking out at their faces, I saw sensibility, intelligence and curiosity. These men represent the old guard faithfully, but with a new-era sensibility that combines pleasing lines and tight midsections with drum-tight conditioning. Think of the Foo Fighters minus the glossy production with an apocalyptic pop sensibility, and you come some way to understanding of what Rival Schools are about. And it is certainly true that he often exaggerates, or at any rate misdescribes, some of the contrasts he discerns between medieval and Lutheran religious sensibility. I do feel there is a gay sensibility in everything I do, including the twilight movies. This darker sensibility keeps the book, to its great credit, from veering toward The Devil Wears Prada territory. Brockovich's unemphatic insistence on the economic struggles of ordinary working people is a perfect instance of Soderbergh's essentially sympathetic sensibility. Pushing 60 but still displaying the sensibility of a naughty schoolboy, Waters displays a real penchant for smutty innuendo and an ever growing catalogue of euphemisms. Show More Sentences These writings revealed a first-rate sensibility, a critic ready to stick his neck out and make the necessary judgments, sometimes with acerbity, often with a humorous irony. But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation. As I think back to that Hogarthian nightscape, I can understand why we of a tender bourgeois sensibility are panicked by the idea of further relaxing the licence laws. She praises the discerning sensibility of the Homeric characters. The script and dialogue writers have kept essential logic and reasoning and the basic distinctions between comedy and farce far away from viewers' sensibility. The originality, the indefatigability, the uncanny sense of self-promotion, the converting of art into sensibility, put him, it seems to me, into the most rarefied circle. He is an artist who seamlessly fuses his acute aesthetic sensibility with his inquiring intellect to produce works that are reflective, engaging, sad and also very beautiful. There is also always the challenge before a man of sensibility as to how many rings set with antique intaglios he can get onto his hands and still be able to move his fingers. He has applied this avant-garde sensibility to an exploration of social and political issues, giving his experimental forms the unadorned flatness of naturalist filmmaking. They eagerly turned to literature printed in the East to acquire fluency in the expressive, if nonverbal, rhetoric made possible by this new sensibility. Most of these churches were controlled by wealthy pew holders who wanted their clergy to be eloquent, cultivated men with a refined literary sensibility. To describe this as a delicate instrument might be inaccurate, if the term were used in relation to other electrical instruments of extreme sensibility. Sakai's notion of English as a contributor of heterogeneity also helps to deterritorialize English as a language that conveys an inherently American cultural sensibility. The sensibility about female characters is different than it was. How did your favorite short story writers shape your sensibility? Emotional sensibility, he thinks, induces its own reactions upon the muscular system, independently of the movements denominated con-sensual. Pater argued that man's sensibility to beauty should be refined above all else, and that each moment should be felt to its fullest extent. In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility. For ngai, the zany is an aesthetic about the withering of sensibility. Deeply religious, Gladstone brought a new moral tone to politics, with his evangelical sensibility and his opposition to aristocracy. Show More Sentences Like Caravaggio, he's a hell-bent verist with a renegade baroque sensibility. Five years later, Crunchy Cons became a book exploring this neo-traditionalist sensibility. The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is a genre which developed during the second half of the 18th century. On the gallery's Website, the exhibition's works, with their multiple disjuncts and diffusions, flattened to reveal a discrete sensibility. Glowing cinematography, understated acting by non-pros, and a sensibility that is both tender and hard-nosed. It reaffirms Hook's assertion that Marcuse's totalistic sensibility immunized itself from any disconfirming factual evidence. Piper's photos on the book's endpapers give a better clue to his sensibility than the cover does. The coarsened sensibility that this now-dominant Southernism and Frontierism has brought to our politics is unmistakable. According to Rietveld, it was the house sensibility of Chicago, in a club like Hardy's The Music Box, that afforded it its initial meaning. This sensibility has nothing in common with the fascist take on Lebensraum, which is about making the world empty for one's own life. Yet, although the story begins with a general frothiness, after awhile its sensibility ventures into somewhat heavier realms. In subsequent films Mr. Besson realized his ambition to meld visionary, megabudget Hollywood-style spectacle to French sensibility. It celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. It is sometimes held up as an early, if not the first, example of the modern sensibility. Wollstonecraft promotes subjective experience, particularly in relation to nature, exploring the connections between the sublime and sensibility. He may have possessed an innate poetic sensibility, but his early works were clearly those of a young man learning his craft. The deeply religious Gladstone brought a new moral tone to politics with his evangelical sensibility and opposition to aristocracy. Dowling says that most performances of Chekhov plays have been filtered through translations into a British highborn sensibility. One of Wollstonecraft's most scathing critiques in the Rights of Woman is of false and excessive sensibility, particularly in women. In the case of documentaries, our thinking tends to be less warped and biased, if only because the auteurist sensibility has never been too comfortable outside of fiction. Show More Sentences This experience, like the general sensibility surrounding grief, suggests too the routinisation of grief discussed by Scheper-Hughes in her aptly named Death without Weeping. He was attempting to show that a tradition could be disinvented and begun again, and that it could be begun again by a single, freely choosing sensibility. Both of Wollstonecraft's novels also critique the discourse of sensibility, a moral philosophy and aesthetic that had become popular at the end of the eighteenth century. Dutton's reading of Julian of Norwich as a laywoman who betrayed a distinctively Anglican theological sensibility more than a century before the English Reformation. Caicedo's planet fuses what could be called emo sensibility and the rage of the fanboy with that of a literary author, a type of tropical Cesare Pavese. Its Judaeo-Christian roots go deep, as does its animist sensibility. In doing so, this interpretation allows us to square the sensibility of the conservative antisocialist interpretation with the fact that Orwell was a socialist. In fact, given some of the second season's guest stars, adults just might appreciate the series' loopy deadpan sensibility more than The N's target audience. With its groundbreaking user experience and in-the-know sensibility, The DL brings street cred to the mainstream and offers something for every music fan. Other poems written in the following years, especially On the Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount, are descriptive verses, showing sensibility but no true poetic imagination. Through panentheistic sensibility, our ancestors conceived a Covenant between Creator and Creation that humankind is enjoined, spiritually and ethically, to uphold. Conversely, Lennon's mature music is best appreciated as the daring product of a largely unconscious, searching but undisciplined artistic sensibility. These passages are tour deforce catalogues of natural phenomena conceived in a rhetoric of sensibility, one of the elementary rhetorics of Romantic expression. Examples from Classical Literature He expresses the unalloyed sensibility of an artist in terms of delicious contemporary life and gives us, adventitiously, romance. The tentacles of the bronchial tube seem to be possessed of exquisite sensibility. The value of candour in individuals should be measured by their sensibility to shame. They are accused of disgusting affectation, of pretending to youth, to censorial importance, and to an exquisite sensibility. His sensibility is shrunk up and withered by events the most disgustful to his feelings. His enthusiasm for nature was but the drivelling sensibility of the drunkard. Protopathic and epicritic sensibility are lost over the radial side of the forearm. Nature has been too kind to you for your happiness, your delicacy, your sensibility. If a man is amiable, and if I have taste and sensibility, I must see and feel it. What corresponds in it to the sensibility of the animal is the impressionability, quite of its kind, of its chlorophyl light. This is to ask why God has been pleased to indue man with sensibility and free will. The idea of justice, since it is subject, to the variations of sensibility, is of the most instable sort. So exquisite is the sensibility, that to touch a hair of the head or beard, is like the jagging of needles into the body. They will only be admired by artists of perception, and by laymen of keen sensibility. She paints with miniature sensibility and knows best of all what to leave out. Consequently, in all the details of private life, sensibility displays its magniloquence. Its sensibility ought to be such that it is actuated by a tenth of a milliampere, and, if possible, even by less. I would to God that I, too, possessed the tender irritableness of unhandled sensibility. They consisted in loss of cutaneous sensibility, motor paralysis, and vesical and rectal incompetence. In pharmacology and surgery, substances or agents which diminish or destroy sensibility, or which relieve pain. Show More Sentences Deep sensibility is usually lost over an area almost as extensive as that of protopathic insensibility. But never shall I be able so far to conquer my tender sensibility as to enquire after him. The charm of sensibility he had told me was to him irresistible. With a ready tact, the result of ever-active and wholesome sensibility, she discerned what was good for him, and did it. He had the ordinary temperament of genius, and was a compound of misanthropy, sensibility, and enthusiasm. Cousin Laurence was a boy of twelve, a bright scholar, in whom an early thoughtfulness and sensibility began to show themselves. Any woman sinking her shaft deep enough, will at last reach a fathomless spring of sensibility in thy breast, Crimsworth. Chic cummerbunds accentuated the figure over the heavier drapes, ensuring a younger sensibility to the styles. His sensibility to outrage and insult overpowered and unmanned him. The prehensile part of the tail is naked and of extreme sensibility. O divine sensibility, defend me from this isolation of the heart! With me, the animal charcoal seemed to increase the sensibility greatly. He had no ataxia or loss of sensibility in the upper half of the body. Rebecca Lustig's smart-set costumes, which summon carefree lawn parties on country estates, certainly enhance that RKO-style sensibility. Even an infidel would have heard little or nothing to shock his sensibility. In here, it's much more appropriate to settle into lodgings with a boutique sensibility, and the W Hotel-French Quarter fills the bill nicely. A man of thought, fancy, and sensibility, may, at any time, be a man of affairs, if he will only choose to give himself the trouble. As to Lady Olivia's excessive sensibility, I have no faith in it. I could not excuse a man's having more music than lovemore ear than eyea more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings. Neither of them had natural tact, and Godwin's sensibility was morbid. Show More Sentences As long as full sensibility remained, Jeremy Pitt had made no sound. Both were comely, with delicate features full of sensibility. She was not a conjurer of words so much as a magician in sensibility. Ms Smith said remakes of popular British programmes had to maintain a British sensibility or the ultimate effect was lost. Neither could he be willing to depart without again beholding Clifford, whose sensibility, like Phoebe's smile, had talked a kind of heart's language to the foreigner. These new offices for a building contractor are a highly sensual yet functional interplay of craftsmanship and fine materials, reflecting a modern Danish sensibility. McKenna, ci-devant editor of the Pink Paper, enjoys a perspective clarified by his possession of a contemporary sensibility to the woof and warp of the gay life. On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable. Duncan now turned to explain these proposals to his commander, who heard him with amazement, and a sensibility that was deeply touched by so unusual and unexpected generosity. Striking most disagreeably on Clifford's auditory organs and the characteristic sensibility of his nerves, it caused him to start upright out of his chair. So staying in the house, on the other hand, may produce a softness and smoothness, not to say thinness of skin, accompanied by an increased sensibility to certain impressions. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of sensibility? Words that rhyme with sensibility What is the plural of sensibility? What is the adverb for sensibility? What is the adjective for sensibility? What is the noun for sensibility? Translations for sensibility Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sensibilities sensibilia senses sense of self sense of responsibility sense of relief sensible sensibly sensical sensilla sensillum sensing 11-letter Words Starting With s se sen sens sensi sensib sensibi sensibil sensibili sensibilit