If one disregards the patients of one's own practice and strives to comprehend a wider field of experience, he will in two directions encounter facts which will prevent him from assuming inversions as a degenerative sign.
Hence the operations consisting of an even number of inversions form a group by themselves.
Successive inversions at AB and BC then will change ABC into a series of equiangular triangles with B for a common vertex.
The network of triangles so formed gives a graphical representation of the group that arises from the three inversions in BC, CA, AB.
He was much under the spell of Milton while he wrote it; and finally he gave it up in September 1819, declaring that "there were too many Miltonic inversions in it.
He "swims in a sea of tone," being particularly fond of those suspensions and inversions in which the intervals of the second clash passionately, strongly compelling resolution.
Besides there areinversions of situations, of relations between two people, and so in dreams we are in a sort of topsy-turvy world.
Inversions such as occur here in the single word are effected in a very different way by the dream-work.
In Greek prose, no less than in Greek poetry, inversions like those just quoted would be quite legitimate.
Footnote 53: The modern custom is to view with some suspicion these inversions when found in prose composition, though in German prose they are common enough.
Both classes of cipher can be rendered more efficient by a judicious use of inversions and by the concealment of terminations.
By the inversions of the whole or certain parts of messages, according to some preconcerted arrangement, the complications of cipher can be greatly increased.
In the last example especially, Mr. Longfellow's inversions are so violent that to a reader ignorant of the original Italian, his sentence might be hardly intelligible.
In hystericinversions of motion is some other part too much stimulated?
And Beethoven's Mass in D is full of pieces of double counterpoint in the inversions of which a few notes are displaced so as to produce momentary double counterpoint in unusual intervals, obviously with the intention of varying the harmony.
It would be more difficult than triple, but for the fact that of its twenty-four possible inversions not more than four or five need be correct.
When more than two melodies are designed so as to combine in interchangeable positions, it becomes increasingly difficult to avoid chords and progressions of which some inversions are incorrect.
In its elaboration of clause and period, in its delicate resonant eloquence, Hooker's style is Ciceronian; but his inversions and mazes of subordinate sentence somewhat rack the genius of English.
If his burgesses revolted, he dissolved them with a sledge-hammer kind of rhetoric.
The new ruler was not unskilled in governing; but he had a temper that impelled him sometimes in wrong ways, and an ambition that made the people distrust him.
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Pay special attention to the relation of frost and inversions of temperature; to the frequency of frost on open or sheltered surfaces; on hills or in valleys, and on the lower and upper branches of trees and shrubs.
Inversions of temperature are quite common, especially during the clear cold spells of winter.
It set a value on literary expression for its own sake rather than for the purpose of the play; it was replete with elaborately lovely phrases; and it admitted the inversions customary in verse intended for the printed page.
The differences and inversions in the English and in Herd are very ancient; by 1550 "the Percy and the Montgomery met," in the line quoted in The Complaynte of Scotland.
But there are, we repeat, similar inversions in the English and in Herd's old copy, and nobody says that Scott or Hogg or any modern faker made the inversions in Herd's text.
Not unfrequently also two inversions of rhythm follow immediately upon one another, e.
Inversions of accent occur in the usual positions and at all times with all the poets.
Even the number of the inversions of accent decreases considerably and is only about 12 per cent.
But in general his sentences are long and involved, full of inversions and latinized constructions.
If the altitude is sufficiently great the decreased temperature gives mountains a polar climate, with the difference that the summers are relatively cool while the winters are mild owing to inversions of temperature in anticyclonic weather.
The inversions of temperature characteristic of the colder months, and of the night, give mountains the advantage of a higher temperature then--a fact of importance in connexion with the use of mountains as winter resorts.
With an Explanation of theirInversions and Resolutions.
The chords with their inversions and resolutions are briefly and clearly explained.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inversions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
