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Example sentences for "interplay"

Lexicographically close words:
interpersonal; interphone; interplane; interplanetary; interplanted; interpleader; interpolate; interpolated; interpolating; interpolation
  1. One may be prepared for a knowledge of the economic and social significance of the railway even if one does not know a throttle from a piston-rod, provided one has broad and well-balanced knowledge of the interplay of human social interests.

  2. It is true, then, that Shakespeare read human life as an open book, knowing certainly the manner of human thinking and feeling, and the power and interplay of human motives.

  3. Only an unusual interplay of mental forces could have brought about such an odd result.

  4. First, let us consider its unity established by the harmonious interplay of the forces permeating it.

  5. V The net result of the interplay of instincts and influences which determine the existence of a community is shown in the general expression on the faces of the people.

  6. If he does not thus envisage the immense background of his special interests, he will lose the most precious feeling for interplay and proportion without which all specialism becomes distorted and positively darkened.

  7. And the interplay of the two might, had Germany held aloof, have led to a compromise.

  8. Soon, however, the mist of ignorance began to lift, and saner notions of the stern interplay of the tidal forces at work were borne in upon the leaders of the allied peoples.

  9. I am speaking especially, of course, of the interplay of Rousseauistic and Baconian elements that appear in certain recent philosophies like that of Bergson.

  10. One may note in connection with this use of history the usual interplay between scientific and emotional naturalism.

  11. For that is obscured by dark clouds of party strife, extending over years, the caprices of men and the interplay of ambitions both within and without the distracted German lands.

  12. We shall best consider these manifestations of mental activity as an interplay of the reactions of stimulation, inhibition, choice, organizing energy, and not as separate and totally different matters.

  13. In all men the desire for power and the desire for fellowship blend and interplay in their ambitions and activities; in some fellowship predominates, in others power.

  14. In that interplay the blind man has full measure and brimming over.

  15. And it is the ear and tongue that are the channels of the cheerful interplay of mind with mind.

  16. It had been weeks before the old ambitions, and tendernesses, and all the complex moral interplay of a man, had reasserted themselves.

  17. He was standing in the passage under the feeble gas-lamp, and his face was a grotesque interplay of shadows.

  18. They are not hereditary classes, nor is there any attempt to develop any class by special breeding, simply because the intricate interplay of heredity is untraceable and incalculable.

  19. The motives needed for those wider issues come not into the interplay of my vanities and wishes.

  20. The interplay of these forces makes the history of civilization--of nations and the great basic industries within the nations.

  21. Stripped of all that is not essential we see the problem of the management of children reduced to the interplay between the adult mind and the mind of the receptive suggestible child.

  22. The happiest thing about all this is that it affords the freest possible interplay of social forces.

  23. Here, again, those forbidding walls make possible a freedom of social interplay which is unknown in America.

  24. To understand the interplay between them, we could probably benefit from modern cognitive research of distributed and centralized authority.

  25. The circumstances leading to the separation of intellectual and educational tasks were generated by an interplay of factors.

  26. What is of interest here is the direction of change and the interplay of the many variables involved in it.

  27. It was only after he had observed the interplay and contrast of colours in nature that he sought explanation in the works of his masters, the Impressionists.

  28. The diplomatists, politicians, and statesmen, on the other hand, were far too occupied with their established interplay of nations and parties to heed what the contemporary mind was doing.

  29. And all these systems of change interplay with each other.

  30. Even to-day men are still reluctant to recognize that areas of government are not matters for the bargaining and interplay of tsars and kings and foreign offices.

  31. Unity may be easily enough attained by an exact balance of similar phrases, but only a master can produce it from the interplay of factors so diverse and so incongruous.

  32. Among the astonishingly new kinds of musical eloquence obtained in this work by the interplay of chorus and semi-chorus it is worth drawing special attention to the tenor and alto unison in the semi-chorus on p.

  33. He finds himself representing some creature that is scarcely individualised at all, and taking part in the interplay of elemental forces rather than of human passions.

  34. The naive interplay of nature and spirit, that ingenuous trust in external reality which had been the expression of a youthful vigour in the Mediterranean peoples, from which indeed the ancient civilisation was derived, now was shattered.

  35. The Agni Cult shows, as does the Vedic religion in general, this interplay of the earthly and heavenly world, of the microcosmic individual and the macrocosm.

  36. Controlled expression is the essence of culture, because it alone makes a sufficiently clear appeal in a world which is itself the result of the innumerable interplay of complementary or dual laws and forces.

  37. As the association process can so easily be expressed in physiological terms, the aim was prevalent to understand the interplay of mental life more and more as the result of association.

  38. The religiously valuable may be indifferent or even undesirable in the interplay of causes, and the morally indifferent may be most important for the physician's interests.

  39. Yet it would be artificial to deny that any one of those various sides of the psychical process may come to prominence, sometimes the impulse, sometimes the emotion, and sometimes the interplay of ideas.

  40. It was hardly more vivid than any landscape which he tried to remember, only that it controlled the interplay of ideas in such a persistent way.

  41. There the perceptions arose and through associative interplay the memory pictures and the ideas of action and the feelings arose, and the whole inner life was thus bound up with the processes in these sensorial spheres.

  42. The loose interplay of the brain cells without the serious training of discipline must involve disorganization of the mind-brain system which may count often most powerfully in those spheres in which the mere needs of life are felt the least.

  43. The main point is whether the standpoint of psychological science, as a study of mechanism, is indifferent and opposed to the demands of education with its free interplay of personalities in their vital attitudes and aims.

  44. The physician, after all, is not dealing with a lifeless body; with a simple anatomical structure, or interplay of mechanical elements.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interplay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.