But to say that the American legal profession is without ideals and lacking in the emulative spirit would be to do it a grave injustice.
By degrees men and women are making ready to take their places in an emulative rather than a materialistically competitive order.
Both lines of aptitudes are cultivated and strengthened by the life of sport as well as by the more serious forms of emulative life.
The two categories--the emulative habit of life and the habit of devout observances--are therefore to be taken as complementary elements of the barbarian type of human nature and of its modern barbarian variants.
Their daily life is not in the same degree a course of habituation to the emulative and invidious motives and maneuvers of the pecuniary side of industry.
But the evolution of economic life in the industrially more mature communities has now begun to take such a turn that the interest of the community no longer coincides with the emulative interests of the individual.
But after all allowances and deductions have been made, there is left some remainder of motives of a non-emulative kind.
Taking the population as a whole, this predatory, emulative variant does not seem to have attained a high degree of consistency or stability.
They are partly simple and unreflected expressions of an attitude of emulative ferocity, partly activities deliberately entered upon with a view to gaining repute for prowess.
In the later and farther development of the pecuniary culture, the requirement of withdrawal from the industrial process in order to avoid social odium is carried so far as to comprise abstention from the emulative employments.
But there are also deductions to be made on account of the presence of other alien motives which more or less broadly traverse the economic trend of this non-emulative expression of the instinct of workmanship.
And the physiognomy of astuteness, as a decorative feature, never ceases to receive the thoughtful attention of men whose serious interest lies in athletic games, races, or other contests of a similar emulative nature.
Moreover, that aspiring nature--that ardent ambition which has already manifested itself, will be gratified and will find congenial associations and emulative stimulants In the career thus opened to him.
This case will comprehend music, as practised at the present day, because they believe it to be injurious to health, to occasion a waste of time, to create an emulative disposition, and to give an undue indulgence to sensual feeling.
Add to which that where there is a desire for such reputation, an emulativedisposition is generally cherished, and envy and vain glory are often excited in the pursuit.
Now other cares engross me, And my tired soul, with emulative haste, Looks to its God, and prunes its wings for Heaven.
Now other cares engross me, And my tired soul, with emulative haste, Looks to its God, and prunes its wings for heaven.
An Emaum-baarah is erected for the purpose of doing honour to the memory of the Emaums, and of late years the emulative spirit of individuals has been the great inducement to the display of ornamental decorations.
Then truly did the sentiment of emulative motherhood in her childish breast console her for the time for her need of her own mother.
To it responded with emulative echo the solemnly wanton procession of Dionysian revellers, to whom we are indebted for German music--and to whom we shall be indebted for the re-birth of German myth.
Before long, her emulative spirit got her so interested in this particular game that she forgot not only the sham skirt but the sham pretense upon which she had bullied Irene.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emulative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
