Thus the beautiful by no means belies in reality the idea which we have made of it in speculation; only its action is much less free in it than in the field of theory, where we were able to apply it to the pure conception of humanity.
Stimulus fails before the dead nerves, and a deathly indolence belies future healing.
Norman count has got a daughter who belies her own father.
The man whose outer life belies the inner is an enforced suicide.
It will hear of no holiness that leaves out truthfulness; no word, no deed, no habit, that even with the purest purpose belies the God of reality and veracity.
Something very dreadful, no doubt,' says he with a look that belies his words.
The Imperial mediator and bottle-holder to slavocracy belies not his bloody origin and his bloody appetites.
Never hesitant to voice his opinion on any topic, Barry pounces on my questions with an eagerness that belies his calm exterior.
Cyril, with a gravity that belies his innermost feelings, gazes hard at Lilian, only to acknowledge her innocent of desire to offend.
Not much;" but the drawn expression of his face belies his assertion.
The interior of the building, with its unprepossessing facade of four stories belies its external appearance.
He belieshis appearance for he is a distinguished professor of the University of Buenos Aires.
A walk down the main street which is named Brazil belies the general appearance of the town for its sidewalks throng with peasants from whose shoulders hang multicolored shawls.
Everything in him is of a piece, and nothing yet belies that grandeur he has acquired, for which he has paid and does not owe anything.
But it belies the evidence of his whole work when, as in Section XVII.
His language has, however, a vein of bitterness, sometimes even of cynicism, which belies the idea of any sustained impulse to good.
His countenance then belies him strangely: I should be loth to purchase that youngster for a fool.
He is no common man, or his appearance belieshim strangely.
People fail to do this when their effusively gracious condescension subsequently develops into snobbishness, or when an austere stiffness of demeanor belies the friendliness which they really intend to manifest.
Dulce to herself, half uncertainly; and then she hesitates, and then belies the old adage because she is not lost, but decides on maintaining a discreet silence.
Yes, of course," says Mr. Gower, but in a tone that belies his words.
In Which the Undercurrent Belies the Superficial Calm 267 XXVI.
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