A good work of visual art carries a person who is capable of appreciating it out of life into ecstasy: to use art as a means to the emotions of life is to use a telescope for reading the news.
Unfortunately, people are apt to be less modest about their powers of appreciating visual art.
Can we persuade the travelling classes that an ordinarily sensitive human being has a better chance of appreciating an Italian primitive than an expert hagiographer?
His mind was absorbed entirely with taking in and thoroughly appreciating the effect of the picture.
Woman by her very nature is incapable of appreciating or applying impartial justice, and her incapacity grows in proportion to her immediate interest in the matter involved.
His calloused sensibilities had long ago lost their capability of appreciating a nature such as hers.
When he determined to get married, fully appreciating his physical defect, he resolved to imitate nature, and being of a very ingenious turn of mind, he busied himself with the construction of an artificial penis.
Strange as it may seem, some individuals are incapable of appreciating certain odors.
Men under arms, and in a situation of danger, are usually sufficiently alert in appreciating the merit of their officers.
For the present we must limit ourselves to understanding and appreciating fairly the position of our professors.
This was only the beginning of an afternoon of triumph for Elizabeth, a triumph which she enjoyed without appreciating its true significance.
Clavering had reckoned upon Elizabeth’s neither knowing nor appreciating the effect of the revelations about him; in this, however, he was mistaken.
In appreciating the credit of any miraculous story, these are distinctions which relate to the evidence.
My dear Mary, my poor sister is not, nor will be for two months perhaps capable of appreciating the kind old long memory of dear Anne.
The kindness of his motives, and his power of appreciating the noble passage, I thoroughly agree in.
The truth was that he had been appreciating in the past few days a truth of which the girl herself was as yet unconscious.
Betty drank a swallow of coffee, hardly appreciating what she was doing, so deep was her absorption in their affairs.
He's as innocent and unsuspicious and incapable of appreciating their wiles as the average Secretary of the Interior; and Wayne isn't the kind of man to be influenced by Ray's opinions.
Dandy ambles lightly along, eager for fun and little appreciating the danger.
The only way in which the power of appreciating art-qualities can be gained, especially if these qualities are of a subtle nature, is by the careful study of works of known excellence.
I do not wonder that persons here in England do not care to have their houses "decorated," nor do I wonder at their not appreciating the "decorations" when they are done.
Jim,' says he, 'this is what comes from pinning your faith to a woman and not appreciating the weakness of the sex.
He had the reasoning power of a child of ten years old; he was patient when anything was wrong and we had to do disagreeable things to him, appreciating that it was for his benefit.
All incapable as he was of appreciating its tenderness, or of gathering the faintest moral from its glory.
It was mockery for him to pretend to work there against the grain, and live in all that ease and luxury,' said Felix, greatly appreciating her sympathy.
His selfish cares and irritable mood prevented hisappreciating or returning her attachment, and he looked upon her as a clog and an encumbrance, without which he might again rise in the world.
In appreciating the Pagan poet, the poet of Christianity appeared to glow with enthusiasm like that which entranced his whole soul in the moments of his own superb inspiration.
The public is often a bad judge; it is incapable of appreciating certain scientific merits.
Dupré de Saint-Maur; and at the beginning of his letter Diderot complained of the man of science who had preferred to have his experiment witnessed by two beautiful eyes rather than by men capable of appreciating it.
Poe laid down the principle of art for art's sake that poetry deals with beauty alone and that the only faculty for appreciating it is that of taste.
As a matter of fact all three faculties, taste, intellect and moral sense, are called into use in creating and appreciatingthe highest kind of poetry or any other form of literature.
When men show themselves incapable of appreciating a high privilege, it is meet they should suffer the loss of it, or at least a diminution of it.
Instead of wishing to change the theocracy, we might have expected that every Israelite, capable of appreciating solid benefits, would have clung to it as his greatest privilege and his greatest honour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appreciating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
