Tristan achieves the same end with much more power, as the action is swifter.
It aims at being colossal, and mainly achieves emptiness.
In both races the fraternal idea has undergone equal and magnificent development, save in one point alone, wherein it achieves no further advance among the Meliponitae than among the limited offspring of the humble-bees.
They are always present in our thoughts, though their presence achieves but little.
On the other hand the peduncular parts, whose development usually keeps pace with the triumphs the intellect achieves over instinct, are somewhat less important in the bee than in the ant.
With him impressionism achieves a perfect musical form.
Your thorough blackguard of every species comes of this type, and the worst of all is he who achieves the tyranny of a state.
Already private enterprise, working through incorporated bodies of citizens, achieves ends undreamed of as so achievable in primitive societies; and in the future other ends undreamed of now as so achievable will be achieved.
But the group of interpreting chiefs and elder men generally achieves unanimity in giving its verdict.
I had worked it all out long ago in other terms, when I had seen how all parties stood for interests inevitably, and how the purpose in life achieves itself, if it achieves itself at all, as a bye product of the war of individuals and classes.
It is a system of hostilities and objections that somehow achieves at times an elusive common soul.
Occasionally her verse achieves the expression of sheer sensuous ecstasy.
I will not here attempt to explain the silent force that achieves results.
Such successes as he achieves are not especially inspiring because he does no more than reproduce the lesson as it already exists in the book.
In the same way the substitution of practical activities for the usual isolated text-book study achieves positive moral results which are marked to any teacher who has used both methods.
Strictly speaking, it may be asserted that no natural science really achieves anything more than what is also achieved by Botany: the bringing together of similars, classification.
With a small quantity, but of good quality, one achieves more than with a very large quantity of bad quality.
But if a man achieves a victory with toil, then sweet-voiced hymns arise as the beginning of future fame," etc.
Subsequently, helped by a lion, he achieves many feats.
He aspires to be like the ass and finally achieves his wish.
He may hope in the same way to escape from the solitude of his own ego, for the inner unity that he achieves through work is only an entering into possession of his ethical self, the self that he possesses in common with other men.
The creator of this type achieves work in which illusion and reality are inseparably blended, work which gives the “illusion of a higher reality.
Browning here escapes for once from the clogging intellectualism that makes nearly all the “Ring and the Book” an indeterminate blend of verse and prose, and achieves true poetry though not of the highest type.
This human breadth he achieves not by throwing off but by taking on limitations, and what he limits is above all his imagination.
Unless he achieves something wonderful within a week, he will be removed from command, at least I hope so; I never did more than half believe in him.
In the story, Holgrave achieves the reward of a veracious nature by winning the heart of the purest and loveliest young woman in American fiction.
Nevinson achievesthis with grays and blacks, while Wyndham Lewis forgoes it.
When one, by faith, turns his face homeward from such destroyers of life, he begins to be saved; but only as he lives by faith in fellowship with the Divine and so achieves progressive victory, does he keep on being saved.
But to believe in some things may debauch the intelligence and lower the moral standards, even while it achieves a practical end.
It achieves its purpose, as has been said, by sending a shower of bullets over an area of ground in such quantity that this is swept from end to end.
The New English Art Club, founded in 1885 as a protest against academic art, achieves its purpose by exhibition only.
Though it never achieves a style of its own, it is quite successful in recapturing the lachrymose artificiality that marks Lodge's poem.
The poet achieves his most telling effects in =Hiren= not from invention but from the elaboration of such source materials in Painter as permit him to capture the distinctive glittering artifice of minor epic.
This tone-colour she achieves stroke by stroke, devoting many days to the study of important phrases.
Albert Ryder achieves most by reason of his vaster poetic sensibility--his Homeric instincts for the drama and by a very original power for arabesque.
He achievesgreat plastic beauty with distinguished economy of means.
There was an artist by the name of Vignon who came in for his share during the impressionistic period, probably not with any more dramatic glamour than he achieves now by his very simple and unpretentious pictures.
It is only by eliciting and encouraging the expressions of emotions that the revivalist, the political orator, or the comic man on the music-hall stage, achieves his successes.
The poet achieves a triumph where the pedant only suffers a defeat; and yet the aim of both was almost identical.
Such traces of the Perceval story as remain are found in connection with Perceval himself; he, too, achieves the Grail Queste.
Graal); it is broken and can only be mended by him who achieves adventures of the Grail.
Quetelet says that the measure of the state of civilization in a nation is the way in which it achieves its revolutions.
Work is rigidly bound to fixed hours, uniform standards, stints and piece-products; and instead of a finished article, each individual now achieves a part of a single process and knows little of those that precede or follow.
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