That seemingly hard, practical Scotch nature of his was yet attuned like a delicate chord to the melody of color.
Mr. Lafarge is by nature a colorist; to color, the emotional element of art, his sensitive nature vibrates as to well-attuned harmonies of music.
Also, Winsome betook her self early to bed, and so awoke attuned to the sun's rising.
Besides, in the broad daylight of common day she was less attuned and touched to earnest issues than in the red dawn.
Throughout the whole of his long illness Fletcher's spirit was, not only calm and tranquil, but attuned to an ardour and heavenliness that deeply impressed all who saw him.
But so softly, so tenderly whispered, that only ears attuned as his were could have heard the words.
What solemn reflections arise at such a moment, if the mind beattuned to them!
By happy youth and love attuned To natural harmonies, The singing birds, the whispering wind, She sat beneath the trees.
The notes of a jerky harmonica harshly struck your ears attuned to symphonies; and the song which accompanied it was gutteral and unmusical.
Oh, for the sound of that other voice,--that other voice, which had attuned itself to such a tender melody!
The great cannonade had stopped in an instant, as if by a preconcerted signal, and their nerves, attuned so long to such a continuous roar, seemed to collapse, because some support was withdrawn.
His nerves had been attuned so highly by exciting days that he was awake in an instant and sprang to his feet, Dalton also springing up with equal promptness.
The Spiritual mind is, of course, only accessible to those who are more delicately attuned to its finer vibrations.
If our limitation is disharmony and unhappiness, then we must become attuned to the Divine harmony in such a way and to such an extent as to cause it to be reflected into the outward life.
When, however, we have become attuned to the Divine Harmony, and have learnt to control our thoughts and emotions and to transmute fleshly and material desires into loving service, a state of wholeness is the inevitable result.
But her true, pure voice was the diapason to which he attuned his soul.
The solo ceased; again arose a full swell of voices, attuned by constant practice, and assisted by the instrument and a bass violin, which was played by an elderly gentleman.
The parts were soon arranged; Amy led the glee, the delicious harmony of which appeared to float in the air above their heads, so perfectly was it sung by voices, excellent in themselves, and attuned by constant practice.
When a man is attuned to Him, and a woman is attuned to Him, they will themselves be as one.
The instrument gave forth one note and all the musicians attuned to it.
This accomplished, attune then a third instrument to them; after that a fourth, and so on; and ye shall be all attuned alike.
When the family and the village are attuned to Him, it is easy.
The mind of genius is a wireless station attuned to the vibrations from the daemonic sphere; the works of genius fascinate and delight us largely for this reason: we, too, respond to these vibrations and are demonologists in our secret hearts.
That night their souls seemed attuned to a richer melody than ever before; and as the twilight deepened, and one by one the stars appeared, the blessed baptism of a heavenly calm descended and rested upon their spirits.
The tall trees waved their branches in the morning breeze, and their music touched her soul, and attuned it to sweeter harmony than it had known for years.
The heart which is attunedto life, is full of worship.
The blatancy and gilt of the million-voiced metropolis fell on closed eyes, and on ears attuned only to the murmurs of the past.
The hour and the scene were alike attuned to melancholy.
To people attunedto semiotics, the ad was a powerful visual device.
This prompted a strong movement of philosophic dissidence (Feyerabend and Lakatos are the main representatives), attuned to the practical need of a philosophic praxis aware of the relative nature of its assertions.
The lowest quality of education is at the undergraduate level in universities, where either graduate assistants or even machines substitute for professors too busy funding their research, or actually no longer attuned to teaching.
With all its limitations, the USA is still more attuned to pragmatic requirements.
To the subconscious personality of the only woman for whom he was created, the only woman on earth whose psychic personality is properly attuned to intercept that wireless greeting and respond to it.
In other words, when psychic waves from any individual are collected or telegraphed along these wireless psychical currents, only that one affinity attuned to receive them can properly respond.
They had figured the best applicant for the job would be one with an intellect highly attuned to the vibrations of these others, known dimly through the warp-view, one extremely sensitive and with a great capacity for appreciation.
The young woman herself had gone on that wild journey to the heavens, not only with her mind, but with her entire being, attuned to the rest of creation.
The most poetically attuned people are in the Khanat of Khiva.
He may not have Little Joe in his world unless his spirit becomes attuned to the pathos of Bleak House.
We may not be able to resolve democracy into its constituent elements, but the spirit that is attuned to democracy is keenly alive to its manifestations.
The spirit so attunedis quick to detect any slightest discord in the democratic harmony.
If our hearts were but attuned to the charm and romance of the stories they have to tell, every breakfast-table would be redolent with the fragrance of thanksgiving.
If his spirit is notattuned to majestic harmonies, he will drift down to association with his own kind.
In short, her spirit is attuned to all beauty and sublimity and truth, and so she is inherently an artist.
And the teacher imbibes the spirit of the poet and becomes vital and thus becomes attuned to all life.
People whose minds are attuned to a certain pitch will receive the vibrations from the minds of others whose mental keynote is the same.
And all instruments, irrespective of number, that may be within sending distance, will receive the message providing they are attuned to the same pitch.
But such is not the case, for Marconi finds that he can attune his receiving instrument to a certain pitch, and that the instrument will receive and record only vibrations emanating from a sending instrument attuned to the same pitch.
Life and death in the stoical system were attuned to the same key.
It fell unheeded even on her own front door, for Victoria's ears were already attuned to the sound.
Strangely attuned to the western ear, the sounds sometimes boomed, sometimes fell to a whisper.
