I will spare him the recital of my suspicions, my gropings and my failures and will come straight to the results of my long investigation.
A long series of blind gropings eventually hit upon the most favourable combination, a combination henceforth to be perpetuated by hereditary transmission.
There is a spirit," she said, "which moves among the multitudinous blindgropings of humanity.
Not between conceptions of religion---- What is religion but the blind gropings of the human soul after some divine perfection vaguely guessed?
She was not, in spite of her obvious kindness and sympathy, quite human enough to go to the depths that Madge's gropings reached blind hands to.
But gradually, slowly, with painfulgropings after light, she had made up her mind.
Admittedly therefore it works against its own gropings for dynamism, for symptoms and results are the outgrowth of causes, and as such can have only an objective interest.
We are conscious of the artist's gropings for those fundamentals he was finally to discover in the seclusion of his rugged country of the south.
Goya paints moral decay with disgust and genius, whereas Legrand, with his slight gropings after order of a surface variety, glories in it as in a pursuit, and paints it with a leer.
That Van Gogh was an illustrator is undeniable; but he was an illustrator of the abstract gropings of an unbalanced mind avid for dramatic emotions, rather than of exterior nature.
She gave herself up to it, in a trance interwoven with all the loveliest and deepest things she had ever felt--with her memory of Hallin, with her new gropings after God.
She was spiritually inarticulate, but her gropings were expressed in service to them she loved and in violence to them she hated.
Out of the maze of complicated ideals and gropingsthis question and answer emerged, devastating everything in their path.
Indeed, it seemed that his vision had been infinitely extended, that he had suddenly come into possession of the solution of all the bewildered, despairinggropings of the human soul.
Hodder clung to the shell of reality, to the tiny panorama of the visible and the finite, to the infinitesimal gropingsthat lay recorded before him on the printed page.
These tentatives and gropings to find a definition are always instructive, and must have been especially so in the Platonic age, when logical distinctions had never yet been made a subject of separate attention or analysis.
The gropings of Sokrates are among the numerous facts which go to refute such a theory: or at least to show in what sense alone it can be partially admitted.
I do not need to dwell on the previous question whether, apart from that mission, there is any solid revelation of the fact that there is love in Heaven, or whether we are left, apart from it, to gropings and probabilities.
She contributed nothing to their gropings save a much better patience, but she went with noticeable regularity, on the pretext of her foolish modelling, to Rosedale Road.
She would do things as she liked and do them straight off: Miriam couldn't fancy her in the gropings and humiliations of rehearsal.
The gropings of our muse, the distracted experiments of our architecture, often arise from the attraction of some historical school; we cannot work out our own style because we are hampered by the beauties of so many others.
These gropings after beauty have their worth as signs of aesthetic vitality and intimations of future possible accomplishment; but in themselves they are abortive, and mark the impotence of the imagination.
It is easy to {142} see from them what an important role the Florentine artist played in directing the gropings of his assistant artists.
None of its departments is spared in the condemnation, though most fun is made of the gropings of the medieval mind after truth in the physical sciences.
She had paid a heavy price in her gropings for liberty, but she had reached a stage which, while not yet satisfactory, was incomparably ahead of that with which she had begun the century.
There is accordingly a vast amount of irresponsible play and loose experiment in art, as in consciousness, before these gropings acquire a settled habit and function, and rationality begins.
Such faith is indeed profoundly human and has accompanied the mind in all its gropings and discoveries; preference being the primary principle of discrimination and attention.
She was waiting at home to--no, not in the gropings of his own mind, would he complain too bitterly of his bride.
The hearthstone he had himself laid, the skilfully built chimney, with its dream of Callista sitting on one side of the hearth and himself on the other--these were gropingsafter the answers such as he always asked of life.
I think our feeling is that in first gropings there's no knowing what will afterward be the acceptable.
It begins with the babe's first faint gropings after light in his new world as he enters it, and ends with the man's last blind gropings after light in his old world as he leaves it.
In the course of these subterranean gropings no one was more surprised than I was to discover that I was getting entangled in the roots of the same plants whose golden fruit Dr Rendel Harris was gathering from his Olympian heights.
If we begin our review with the gropings of the first far-off thinkers who attempted an analysis of myth, and put to themselves the question "What is myth, its origin and its meaning?
He had been told that the life of a roustabout on the Western rivers was the most dismal of all the gropings in the social underworld, and he was the more eager to endure its hardships as a participant.
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