In its best form, it is not a merely passive but an active condition of being.
She is the presiding genius of the fireside, where she creates an atmosphere of serenity and contentment suitable for the nurture and growth of character in its best forms.
The type of Senator in 1850 was rather charming at its best, and the Senate, when in good temper, was an agreeable body, numbering only some sixty members, and affecting the airs of courtesy.
In its best days, Victorian society had never been "smart.
He had said to an accomplished architect, "I give you the house of my choice; make it what it was in its best days.
As it was, his married life at its best was a disappointment.
We nourish both, to its best growth--and are the richer.
To receive implies wanting, at its best--to receive what you do not want is distinctly unpleasant.
It is in the more remote of these hostelries that the inquisitive stranger will hear the South Saxon dialect in its purity and the slow wit of the Sussex peasant at its best.
Simple and austere in their habits, religious and truthful in their ways, hospitable to all who seek shelter amongst them, free from secret assassinations, they are bright examples of the Pathan character at its best.
I've observed that the best that can be said for human nature at its best is that it is as well behaved as its real temptations permit.
Not until Saturday was her voice atits best again.
At its best it is usually about ninety feet high and five or six feet in diameter, though you may find specimens here and there considerably larger than this.
Even in the case of mere stumps, burned half through, some mere ornamental tuft will try to go aloft and do its best as a leader in forming a new head.
Pantheism at Its Best--and Its Worst Finally, though this is possibly unfair, Eastern Pantheism generally must be tested by its fruits.
It tends at its best toward an extreme conscientiousness and an always excessive introspection; it creates also a vast and brooding patience.
Human nature is atits best but a miserable business to him; death and sorrow are its inevitable lot.
And it was the familiar spectacle of that living sculpture which developed, perhaps, beyond everything else in the Greek mind, at its best, a sense of the beauty and significance of the human form.
There man is most in earnest; his sense of duty perhaps at its best; the sacrifice greatest, for it is life.
The straits of course are not great in which a college boy is placed, but such as they were, Barlow was always cool, with his mind working at its best in the midst of them.
The lovely little town, whose streets for nearly six hundred years have throbbed with the often boisterous life of the student population, is at its best in the spring and early summer.
An apple may be at its best in one latitude or one situation and at its worst in another.
The Spitzenburg appears at its best in the Northwest.
It is undoubtedly at its best on lands too steep or rough to till, or otherwise unsuitable to cultivation.
The six-stress anapestic line which Tennyson preferred for his later dramatic monologues like "Rizpah" is really a ballad measure, and is seen as such to its best advantage in "The Revenge.
The loftiest ideal of humanity, rejecting all comparisons of inferiority and superiority between the sexes, demands that each shall be perfect in its kind, and not be hindered in its best work.
But, in order to do its best, it must obey the law of periodicity; just as the male organization, to do its best, must obey the law of sustained effort.
If one man is working at the forge who by nature is fitted for a place at the desk, then neither this man nor society is at its best.
At its best, society is but an enlarged copy of the vitalized school.
But life ought to teem with joy in order to be at its best, and never be a drag.
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