The other Virginia was a conglomerate of unhappy and harmful emotions--impatient in the face of small irregularities, frequently irritable to unpleasantness, and dominated by the false sensitiveness of unmerited pride.
All ability to reason in the face of desire is gone; she is dominated by emotions which become each year more unattractive; even the air- castles are tumbled into ruins.
It is a treeless barren country, hill and moor, with furze and brown heath interspersed with grey boulder stones, the whole dominated by the great desolate hill of Chapel Carn Brea.
They are not dominated by their ministers, and, excepting some of the local preachers, do not share their malignant hatred of the Church.
Tossed from pillar to post, dominated once by the strong, evil mind of Balcom, Zita had run the gamut of human emotions before she had barely passed her girlhood.
A glance would have been sufficient to show that Brent was secretly afraid of his partner, Balcom, and that Balcom dominated him.
As I had written in one of my preceding chapters, the inhabitants of the region dominated by the châteaux of the Marshal know now who the inconceivable monster is who carries children off and cuts their throats.
The Bishops seated themselves in the front row, surrounding Jean de Malestroit, who from a raised seat dominated the court.
These are very numerous, especially in the conventsdominated by the demoniac societies.
Moreover, he seems to have been completely dominated by the passion for alchemy, for which he was ready to abandon all else.
Nothing could be more just than to class him as a monomaniac, for he was one, if by the word monomaniac we designate every man who is dominated by a fixed idea.
Open type of woodland dominated by such trees as honey locust and osage orange.
I had an absurd sensation that he was slipping away from me--escaping; that I no longer dominated him nor had authority.
Judah was dominated in turn by Assyria and Babylonia, with the result that her religious usages were profoundly affected by theirs.
But the whole book, and especially the prophetic section, is dominated by a splendid sense of the reality of God, His interest in men, His horror of sin, His purpose to redeem.
There was all this and more, but it has nearly all perished, leaving little more than an echo, because the men who compiled and edited the Old Testament were dominated by an exclusively religious interest.
She had always dominated any room that she entered; she dominated this one.
There seemed to be a murmur of confused voices everywhere—in the passage on either side of him, in the hall—preeminently in the hall, where one murmur dominated the other murmurs, and one voice dominated all.
The parole board at this time is arrogantly dominated by LaDow; it is practically a one-man board.
A wave of contempt for Sansome, even as a dangerous creature, mingled with a passionate admiration for the man who thus dominated him unarmed.
He who had so thoroughly dominated the entire ship, eagerly accepted advice of me--a man without experience.
Thus the Arabs dominated the Mediterranean Sea long before Venice "held the gorgeous East in fee And was the safeguard of the West," and long before Genoa had become her powerful rival.
In looking back she could feel with satisfaction that her reason had dominated the scene as a lighthouse beacon shines steadily over tossing and ambiguous waters.
The Jansenists refused to accept the papal decision and the Parliament of Paris, then dominated to a great extent by Jansenist influence, adopted a hostile attitude.
An extreme section, hostile to the Papacy and determined to weaken its position, dominated the Council, and made it impossible to do the work for which the assembly had been convoked.
Lola fitted into this picture and dominated it as no other girl had ever done, and he had fallen actually and metaphorically before her like a shack before a hurricane.
Although Ohio is popularly considered a child of New England, it is clear that in these formative years of her statehood the commonwealth was dominated by other forces.
French colonization was dominated by its trading frontier; English colonization by its farming frontier.
Townships and even counties once dominated by the native American farmers of New York extraction are now possessed by Germans or other European nationalities.
Persons devoted to practice, and unconsciously dominated by the habits and necessities of ecclesiastical government and religious teaching, hesitate to enter upon a road so naturally opened.
Artisans in luxury are useless in a society dominated by plebeians.
If we have a philosophy in us, they walk right according to us; if we have not, they walk by chance, and are too much dominated by the events which we put in the way of their legs.
Most British pro-armament agitation is based upon the plea that Germany is dominated by a philosophy of force.
It is quite clear that the inability to act in concert arises from the fact that in the international sphere the European is still dominated by illusions which he has dropped when he deals with home politics.
Such an attitude is not possible among men dominated by the traditions and the impulses of the Western world.
As long as Europe is dominated by the old beliefs, those beliefs will have virtually the same effect in politics as though they were intrinsically sound.
If she has dominated the commerce of the world, it is because her unconquered navy has dominated, and continues to dominate, all the avenues of commerce.
Am I wrong in saying that the whole subject is overlaid anddominated by a jargon which may have had some relation to facts at one time, but from which in our day all meaning has departed?
International politics are still dominated by terms applicable to conditions which the processes of modern life have altogether abolished.
And the capacity of Europe to act in harmony will not be found as long as the accepted doctrines of European statecraft remain unchanged, as long as they are dominated by existing illusions.
Rosselin was a man of warm feelings and keen sympathies, but the artist in him dominated the friend.
From the time when his eyes had first met hers, she had had complete and undisputed mastery over his life; she had dominated his fancy, filled his imagination, ruled over his destiny, and held empire over his senses.
The whole character seemed to be so dominated and obsessed by an immense personal laudation, that his conversation created in our minds the doubt that qualities which required so much vaunting could really be there.
In the third group are the novels which take us to foreign lands: Quentin Durward, showing us the French court as dominated by the cunning of Louis Eleventh, and The Talisman, dealing with the Third Crusade.
The story relates simple or detached incidents; the romance deals with life in complex relations, dominated by strong emotions, especially by the emotion of love.
Footnote: Though the eighteenth century was dominated by this formal spirit, it had, like every other age, its classic and romantic movements.
The literature of the age was at times dominated by the interests of these contending factions.
As the thousand details of a Gothic cathedral receive character and meaning from its towering spire, so all the works of Shakespeare are dominated by his imagination.
She dominated the roomful of girls like a little Napoleon.
This utterance has dominated the situation from that day to this.
But one aspect of the rising dominated all the others in his mind.
Dominated by his senses, Rousseau never knew how to resist them.
This idea took possession of his mind and dominated it, as it had formerly been dominated by love, by the drama, and by the novel.
As instinct compels the animal to accomplish certain acts, even at the risk of life, so genius, when it is dominated by an idea is incapable of abandoning itself to any other thought.
At the Institute Dumas said with truth of Hugo: “Victor Hugo was dominated by a fixed idea: to become the greatest poet and the greatest man of all countries and all ages.
Many among them are dominatedby passion which becomes the most powerful spur of their activity; they are not protected by the logical criticism and judgment with which men of science are armed.
There need be little doubt that that idea dominated his Chinese diplomacy.
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