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Example sentences for "certain sense"

  • In a certain sense then, he was never alone, for he thought and spoke inwardly.

  • In a certain sense we may connect these Phæacian works with Pallas, who has directed Ulysses hither; they are the works of intelligence.

  • Really she is evolved out of Ulysses in a certain sense; he sees her just now and not before, because he has created her.

  • We soon find that Ulysses has been thrown back to Calypso's Isle from Fableland, of which in a certain sense it is the continuation.

  • Any one who learns these words may say that in a certain sense he knows the contents of Hamlet; and logically he does.

  • In a certain sense he is on the side of Zeus, the Spirit, who enters upon the rulership of the world after the unbridled force of nature (Kronos) has been subdued.

  • Life and meaning at once come into the words of Jesus if we understand them to be the expression of a spiritual occurrence and then, in a certain sense, literally as they stand in the text.

  • He is not the great God, who was and is and is to come, but yet he may be taken, in a certain sense, as the revelation of Him.

  • Even the casual events of human history may be said, in a certain sense, to be governed by fixed laws.

  • The railroads may have improved, in a certain sense, the condition of the working classes almost as much as that of members of Parliament.

  • In a certain sense, and to a certain degree, they were all his victims.

  • In a certain sense, it was keeping up warfare by commercial instead of military methods, and there was danger that it might lead to a renewal of armed conflict.

  • In a certain sense, the action of Congress in 1787 was a usurpation of authority to meet an emergency which no one had foreseen, as in the cases of Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana and Lincoln's emancipation of the slaves.

  • On the other hand, the Earl of Shelburne was, in a certain sense, the political heir of Lord Chatham, and represented principles far more liberal than those of the Old Whigs.

  • The difference of opinion was the first that had arisen between the friends, and Browning's words carried with them a certain sense of pain in the thought that they could in any thing stand apart.

  • She knew that poetry to be of permanent value must do more than reflect a passing fashion; that in a certain sense it must in its essence be out of time and space, expressing ideas and passions which are parts of our abiding humanity.

  • In a certain sense, the liberation of Slaves is the destruction of Property--Property acquired by descent, or by purchase, the same as any other property.

  • I am opposed to that decision in a certain sense, but not in the sense which he puts on it.

  • He had forgotten for the moment that those who would do good should be very humble, and that, in a certain sense, they must take the hand of God, and place it upon the one whom they would save.

  • He was beginning to realize, as he had not before, that he was in a certain sense a corpse, which this decorous and exquisitely refined family could not bury, but would hide as far as possible.

  • Genius is in a certain sense infallible, and has nothing to learn; but art is to be learned, and must be acquired by practice and experience.

  • Of all kinds of poetry the dramatic is, in a certain sense, the most secular; for, issuing from the stillness of an inspired mind, it yet fears not to exhibit itself in the midst of the noise and tumult of social life.

  • In unknown situations in wild countries a revolver gives a certain sense of security, and drawing mine I approached the mysterious light, which went and came intermittently.

  • But the fame of silver has overshadowed that of corn, wine, and oil, to the country's detriment, in a certain sense.

  • He might be a parvenu, in a certain sense, but he did not want to prove himself one to her.

  • But it is this very evanescent quality which gives me a certain sense of security.

  • III BOOKS The one room in my College which I always enter with a certain sense of desolation and sadness is the College library.

  • As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

  • Teachers are going to believe that if the right thing can be done about it, this sense of a live relation to knowledge can be uncovered in every human soul, that there is a certain sense in which every man is his own genius.

  • The fact that the universe is very large is neither here nor there to us, in a certain sense.

  • And yet it seems to me that there is a certain sense in which I am as scientific as anyone.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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