Out of the vast number of subjects which have been treated in later religious art, a comparatively few have been selected, which are over and over repeated with unvarying iteration of type.
To the Occidental unused to Oriental art, the absence of crescendo and climax, and the substituted iteration carried on endlessly, is uninteresting.
As that which might conveniently be called the Renaissance of Individuality began to be felt, within the past few years, the endless iteration of one step in each dance became inadequate to interpret feelings.
There was no response save the echoes, and the vibrant iteration of the katydid.
The wheels still sounded assertively on the air; the katydids' iteration rose in vibrant insistence; the long, vague, pervasive sighing of the woods added to the night its deep melancholy.
Scraps of them are sung by one of the dramatis personae, old Merrythought, whose speciality is a damnable iteration of ballad fragments.
As in music there are ebb and flow, rhythmic pulse, so his little landscapes unroll themselves with iteration to the accompaniment of mournful voices.
She is lost, she declares, with the passionate iteration which has become a fixed pattern in the Maeterlinck dialogue.
The iteration of his speech is like the dripping of water upon the heads of the condemned.
Perhaps, knowing the charge of indifference to be groundless, he underrated the effect which the iteration of it produced: perhaps his pride would not let him stoop to dissipate it.
He might never acquire order, and the power that order and habit and the daily iteration of necessary thoughts and acts bring; but the prospect did not appal her.
She had only heard, in her own brain, the iterationof Ba'tiste's calling.
There was a trifle of a romantic flavour in the notes which Vittoria tried not to feel; the smart iteration of them all about her rubbed it off, but she was reduced to repeat them, and take them in various keys.
The damnableiteration of the steps continued till my knees shook and my brain was half numb.
The famous death-song of Regner Lodbrog seems little more than aniteration of the same ideas.
The only escape from Godkin's iteration was one frequently tried, and that was, to stop The Nation.
We shall conclude with a few sentences in the way of reply to another question, which we can surmise there may be persons ready to ask, after this long iteration of the assertion of the necessity of knowledge to the common people.
And what the evolutionist stands in need of just now, is not an iteration of the fundamental principle of Darwinism, but some light upon the questions, What are the limits of variation?
I shall have no appetite to iterationof nuptials- -this eight-and-forty hours.
I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials?
Nor can it be doubted that this persistent iteration of a political position which, so far as the Liberals were concerned, could be demonstrated by facts, produced an immense effect upon the masses in the great English towns.
But to prolong debate even by persistent iteration on legislative measures is not necessarily an outrage, an offence, or even an indiscretion.
Certain modern authors have developed a phase of emphasis by iteration which is similar to the employment of the leit-motiv in the music-dramas of Richard Wagner.
Emphasis by iteration is a favorite device of Dickens.
These beautiful words, which now receive the emphasis of iteration as well as the emphasis of terminal position, sum up and complete the entire pre-established design.
A narrative expedient scarcely distinguishable in effect from simple iteration is the device of parallelism of structure.
During the whole dialogue, I did not even once remark that hesitation and iteration of words generally attributed to George III.
His preaching of Christ at this time was spoken of as something very striking in its ceaseless iteration of one theme, made constantly new and various by new applications to human want and sin and sorrow.
That work of redemption was itself a historical fact, and it was sought to stir up the heart and the affections by a continual review and iteration of the great facts of Christ's earthly mission, passion, atonement and love.
Had it not been for the iteration of "the world", she would not have objected critically to his words, though they were words of downright appropriation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iteration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
