For there undoubtedly exists a rough physical standard of rightness in drawing, any violent deviations from which, even at the dictates of emotional expression, is productive of the grotesque.
And to my thinking it was done at the dictates of the vivid mental impression he wished his drawing to convey.
Would it not be wiser--nay only in accord with the very first dictates of common sense?
What will happen to mankind when they begin to obey the dictates of their conscience, and how will they exist without the customary conditions of civilization?
At the present time every act of our lives is under the supervision of the State, and in accordance with its dictates a man marries and is divorced, rears his children, and in some countries accepts the religion it prescribes.
Sweden were no longer listened to; and the strong wish the Danish monarch entertained for the marriage of his son Ulrick with the young princess, combined, with the dictates of a sounder policy, to incline him to a neutrality.
It is true, that his conduct towards the Elector of Bavaria looks too like an unworthy revenge, and the dictates of an implacable spirit; but still, none of his actions perhaps warrant us in holding his treason to be proved.
We seek only to obey the dictates of a love that dares not presume, whatever its efforts may be, that it can be so fortunate as to please you, so worthy as to kindle within you a responsive flame.
If we dare not aspire to her possession, at least, in the midst of her danger, allow us to follow the ardour anddictates of our passion.
Many of the clergy had similarly departed from their homes when the anticlerical measures of the Assembly rendered it no longer possible for them to follow the dictates of conscience.
The Third Estate was too intelligent to follow blindly or unhesitatingly the dictates of the court.
Between the two factions of Mountainists and Girondists sat the Plain, as it was called, the real majority of the house, which had no policies or convictions of its own, but voted usually according to the dictates of expediency.
Beccaria taught that arbitrary or cruel interference with personal liberty is not in accordance with dictates of nature or reason.
Will the Tutor ask Number Five to be his wife; and if he does, will she yield to the dictates of nature, and lower the flag of that fortress so long thought impregnable?
He purchased a large and stately house in Newburyport, and proceeded to embellish and furnish it according to the dictates of his taste and fancy.
We can nearly always harmonise our acts with the dictates of our consciences and find reasons for the harm we inflict upon others.
And the result is that the teacher, instead of making us discover demonstrations, dictates them to us; instead of teaching us to reason, he reasons for us, and exercises only our memory.
We therefore see why, even at this early age, it is important to discern the hidden purpose which dictates the gesture or the cry.
Thus it became easy to establish salutary institutions to regulate the mode of living of the obedient people, who looked upon the commands of their sainted legislators as dictates from the eternal throne.
What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heav'n pursue.
Tune there is none--each playing according to the dictates of his own taste, unguided by any musical scale.
Weeping and wailing resounded in every hut, and no Abyssinian possessed sufficient courage to oppose the dictates of the angry despot.
Yet humanity, equally with interest, dictates the use of such simple remedies for the removal of suffering and disease, as may be within reach.
I shall act according to thedictates of my own common sense.
Doubtless you will act according to the dictates of the London clubs.
From no other cause are the dictates of sound reason and the moral sense of mankind more confused than by this narrow theological bigotry.
He who obeys the dictatesof his own true heart cannot be lost, happen what may--at least not in the eyes of the just ones.
The response to his proposal was yet another attempt to avoid the dictates of the draft law and black enlistments.
His interest dictates that so valuable an animal should be well housed, well fed, and well groomed; and he will do well to acquire so much of stable lore as will enable him to judge of these points himself.
Courtesy dictates this, as the person whom you are introducing would, perhaps, wish to know in what manner he or she was spoken of.
Bitter prejudices must give way to the dictates of reason and humanity.
We know that no nation will abide by the dictates of any such court when those dictates are opposed to its interests, unless that court has the power to enforce its decrees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dictates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
