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Example sentences for "ethos"

Lexicographically close words:
ethnological; ethnologically; ethnologischen; ethnologist; ethnologists; ethyl; ethylene; ethylic; etiam; etiamsi
  1. They run crooked gambling games, so the law under their local ethos must be that crooked gambling is the norm.

  2. Ethos is inextricably linked with a single society and cannot be separated from it, or it loses all meaning.

  3. Ethos means the guiding beliefs, standards or ideals that characterize a group or community.

  4. The ethos of a group is just a catch-all term for the ways in which the members of a group rub against each other.

  5. The policy of frightfulness was not only intended to drive an enemy into abject submission and as a punishment for resistance to Germany's imperious will, but it was the military ethos in strife with the civilian spirit.

  6. The ethos of one group always furnishes the standpoint from which it criticises the ways of any other group.

  7. The ethos of any group deserves close study and criticism.

  8. There is a European ethos, for the nations have so influenced each other for the last two thousand years that there is a mixed ethos which includes local variations.

  9. The ethos individualizes groups and keeps them apart.

  10. The ethos of the Japanese, from the most ancient times, has been fundamentally militant.

  11. Ethics" were things which pertained to the ethos and therefore the things which were the standard of right.

  12. No others were associated with the early history of the art, with particular composers or periods, with particular instruments, or with the ethos of music.

  13. The systaltic ethos is that by which the soul is brought down into a humble and unmanly frame; and such a disposition will be fitting for amatory effusions and dirges and lamentations and the like.

  14. The notion that the Phrygian and Lydian scales were 'barbarous' and opposed to Hellenic ethos was apparently common enough, though largely due (as we may gather from several indications) to national prejudice.

  15. Regarding the particular ethos belonging to the different genera, there is a statement of the same author (p.

  16. They are called styles ([Greek: tropoi]) because according to the melody adopted they express the ethos of the mind.

  17. I can find no passage in which this source of ethos is indicated.

  18. These moveable notes, then, give an ethos to the music because they determine the genus of the scale.

  19. Ethos depending on pitch--on the genus 66 Sec.

  20. Regions of the voice--branches of lyrical poetry--kinds of ethos 62 Sec.

  21. Do we ever find ethos attributed to this or that species of the Octave?

  22. And this plot, giving by its nature a certain picture of human experience, involves and suggests the ethos of its actors.

  23. Many hackers even suffer from a strange obsession to TEACH--to spread the ethos and the knowledge of the digital underground.

  24. Underground boards can best be distinguished by their files, or "philes," pre-composed texts which teach the techniques and ethos of the underground.

  25. The ethos of the two systems is the same, and the doctrinal resemblance is marked.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ethos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assumption; attitude; brand; cast; character; characteristic; civilization; climate; code; complex; complexion; composition; conceit; concept; conception; conclusion; consideration; constitution; culture; decalogue; diathesis; disposition; estimate; estimation; ethos; eye; feeling; fiber; frame; genius; grain; habit; hue; humor; idea; ideology; ilk; impression; judgment; kind; lights; lore; makeup; mind; mold; morals; mores; mould; moulder; mouldy; mystique; nature; norm; notion; observation; opinion; philosophy; physique; position; posture; presumption; principles; property; quality; reaction; sentiment; sight; society; sort; spirit; stamp; stance; standard; streak; stripe; system; temper; temperament; tendency; tenor; theory; thinking; thought; tone; trait; type; vein; view; way