They are so wedded to their theories that even the oldest and wisest among them cruelly invents falsehoods to support them (xxii.
It cannot be fairly said that he invents facts; he may modify, amplify and transpose, but always on the basis of fact.
One whoinvents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.
When he invents characters he does not so much describe their actions or let them act as criticise them; he is led to adopt the pose of the satirist more consistently than perhaps he intends.
George Eliot in her contemplation of the human beings she invents is a traveller, who is provided with a map.
The great composer goes first and inventsnew effects: it is the business of the theorist not to cavil at every novelty, but to follow modestly behind and make his rules conform to the practice of the master.
I should liken one who invents melodies to a noble racehorse, and a mere contrapuntist to a hired post-hack.
Barrie when heinvents that absurd accident of Tommy's death.
With the latter, we come into a world of unbridled fancy which, in place of human romances, invents cosmic romances.
Then someone invents the safety bicycle, and in a trice all America, man, woman and child, is awheel.
And without wishing to put again the question of the antagonism of realism and idealism, one may well say that a painter who invents a method and shows such power, is highly intellectual and gifted with a pictorial intelligence.
For the deception in the case of the correspondent who invents "news" is of the same quality as the lack of sincerity in a poem or in a prose fiction; there is a moral and probably a mental defect in both.
The reporter who invents an incident, or heightens the horror of a calamity by fictions is in the case of Shapiro.
If any man ever invents a successful flying machine, I think he will do so by studying the movements of the albatross.
He is very skillful in evading the custom house, and as soon as one trick is discovered he invents another and his ingenuity seems to be boundless.
Scribe invents and eludes where Dumas invents and dares.
In science the man of real genius is the man who invents a new method.
When the animal has arrived at the dignity of the metaphysician, it invents ethics as the embodiment of its belief in the justice of its own herd.
He invents no special methods--a loving heart will hit the method needed in the particular case; the Holy Spirit will teach this as well as other things (Matt.
The story a man invents about another has to be true in some recognizable way to character--as a little experiment in this direction will show.
In endeavoring to get rid of the downright vulgarity of phrase in the last stanza, Wordsworth invents an impossible tortoise-shell, and thus robs his story of the reality which alone gave it a living interest.
Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or reapplies an old epithet.
He invents the subject of the design beyond all question .
But the genius to make money may be and often is--an exploiting type of ability, a selfishly practical industry, which neither invents nor is of great service.
As clearly motivated is the lying of the braggart, the one who invents stories that emphasize his exceptional qualities.
The braggart however is a mere novice as compared with the "pathological liar," who does not seem able to tell the truth, who invents continually and who will often deceive a whole group before he is found out.
The first maxim of the psychological method is this: True philosophy invents nothing, it establishes and describes what is.
It is, therefore, necessary to renounce equality as well as liberty; or if one invents a false equality as well as a false liberty, he puts humanity in pursuit of a phantom.
By-the-bye, pardon me, but isn't your father the Sir Meyville Worth who invents things?
Your father invents no end of wonderful things, doesn't he?
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