The King heard me with apparent pleasure, and after a few generalities about Paris and my acquaintances, said: "His Royal Highness the Duc de St. Cloud has asked me to appoint you on my personal staff.
Giragossian claimed to have developed and which, so far as could be learned from the generalities in which Mr. Giragossian indulged, would take energy out of the cosmos and transfer it directly into mechanical motion.
The glittering and soundinggeneralities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
He dealt in generalities leaving, but not committing, to others their definition and application.
The writers were the real authors" [1340]--a declaration not to be counterbalanced by further generalities about actual divine influence.
The negative generalities of Montaigne here pass into a positive anti-Christian argument; for Herbert goes on to pronounce the doctrine of forgiveness for faith immoral.
He persuaded them to accept his vague generalities as a sober statement of philosophic truth, and he aroused a hatred of kingship in America which was comic in expression and disastrous in result.
The letter bristles with stereotyped generalitiesand Unionism.
Descend, sir, from your shilly-shally generalities and verbal fallacies.
To this abstraction, to the life of generalities or of that which is lifeless, the history of mind had to come.
No, as I was not respected hitherto because people, mankind, and a thousand other generalities were put higher, so property too has to this day not yet been recognized in its full value.
In the Laches, he had done the same with Courage: not without various expressions of regret for his own ignorance, and of surprise at those who talked freely about generalities which they had never probed to the bottom.
In reference to every subject then discussed, an ingenious mind could readily supply deductions from both hypotheses--generalities ratiocinative or imaginative--strung together into an apparent order sufficient for the exigencies of hearers.
We now approach the application of these generalities to the question in hand--the comparative estimate of pleasure and intelligence in reference to Good.
But the Reverend Author forgets his Logic when he goes on from these undoubted generalities to imply that all has been confusion and utter uncertainty until now.
Generalities are the refuge at once of deficient intellectual activity and deficient feeling.
Strong emotion can no more be directed to generalities apart from particulars, than skill in figures can be directed to arithmetic apart from numbers.
For 'William' was to know nothing of the matter, except so far as a few magnificent generalities and the testimony of his own dazzled eyes might inform him.
Or would you rather confine yourself to generalities and accomplished facts?
But it is time to leave generalities and examine how the somewhat abstract principles I have expounded may be applied in arithmetic, geometry, analysis and mechanics.
These are generalities applicable in sum to all the sciences; and for example the mechanism of mathematical invention does not differ sensibly from the mechanism of invention in general.
He was not really concerned with generalities or great moral principles.
I think it a great pity that editors ever deal other than frankly with young contributors, or put them off with smooth generalities of excuse, instead of saying they do not like this thing or that offered them.
The generalities of the earlier chapters square point by point with the particularities of the later.
Still I perceived her to be restless and impatient, as though she were annoyed by my keeping to generalities and not saying something she was waiting for.
These generalities are intended to explain the spirit in which I prepared to leave Buenos Ayres, and drew up an itinerary that was necessarily curtailed by the limited time that remained to me.
Our self-satisfaction will not allow us readily to admit that we have anything to learn from young communities, though we are too ready to talk in generalities about them.
It found its true sphere in the Dorian comedy of Epicharmus and the Athenian comedy of Aristophanes, who combined the personalities of Archilochus and the generalities of Simonides in his own consummate work of dramatic art.
The interest of this poem is very great, as marking a departure from the personalities of Archilochus and an attempt to introduce generalities into the region of satiric delineation.
Then generalitiesare quitted; and Leonidas, the protagonist of Thermopylae, appears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "generalities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
