As an instance of such likings may be mentioned the common admiration of courage when felt irrespectively of the object for which it is displayed.
As men generally are fond of that to which they are used or which is their own, they are also naturally apt to have likings for other individuals whose habits or ideas are similar to theirs.
Finally, there are cases of disinterested retributive emotions into which sympathy does not enter at all--sentimental antipathies and likings quite disinterested in character.
See Likings Disinterestedness, a characteristic of moral concepts, i.
We are easily affected by the aversions and likings of our neighbours.
The influence of sentimental antipathies and likings has been decreasing, ibid.
She, who had hitherto been so indifferent to everybody, so mild in her likings and dislikes--never till now had she felt such strange emotions.
Goldsmith had said that people to live in friendship together must have the same likings and aversions.
Goldsmith said they could not, as they had not the idem velle atque idem nolle[535]-- the same likingsand the same aversions.
Her likingsand dislikings were always more or less enigmatical.
The invaluable Wealdon had run through the list of his to-morrow's visits, and given him an inkling of the idiosyncrasies, the feuds, and the likings of each elector in the catalogue.
Do you strip away from it your own likings and dislikings, your own previous notions of what it ought to be?
We are bidden to put away personal likings and see how in themselves things really are.
Only they in whom it exists can have right likings and dislikings for others.
As I came not into life with any knowledge of it," he said, "and as mylikings are for what is old, I busy myself in seeking knowledge there.
She had none of the childish wilfulness of others in her sad condition, nor did she show the likings and dislikings they usually manifest; and thus she lingered on to her death.
I fear that a great many of our likings and dislikings are too apt to be upon the Dr.
Likings and dislikings are instantaneous and instinctive.
He was quite the women's favourite, and in return for their likings he loved 'em in shoals.
Whose do you most want me to read, that my education in your likings may become complete?
You know nothing of whence your impulses, your desires, your tendencies, your likings come.
This is no hour for private likings or dislikings.
But though these thoughts floated through my system and gave me harsh wrenches of pain, I did not thrust my puny likings before the command of the council of the Priests.
And so I was free to turn where my likingswould have led me first, and that was to the house which sheltered Nais.
I, for one, set no bounds to any woman's likings or mislikings!
And the Courtland maidens, accustomed to the whims and sudden likings of their impetuous mistress, glad also to escape extra duty, hastened their task of arraying Margaret.
The varieties of the emotional constitution and of likings and antipathies are very numerous and wide.
But he protests he loues you And needs no other Suitor, but his likings To bring you in againe Cassio.
But Hilary was a clear headed girl, and she had the rare faculty of seeing things as they really were, undistorted by her own likings or dislikings--in fact, without reference to herself at all.
He was to all appearance constitutionally unable to import into his mind any considerations but those which affected his own personal comforts and likings and indulgences and occasional love of display.
He was fussy, garrulous, excitable, noisy, overbearing, apt to take strong likes and dislikes and to express his likings and his dislikings with an utter disregard for the accepted conventionalities of social life.
He was liable to strong likingsand dislikings, and he took no pains to conceal his sentiments in either case.
To others, that can be forgiven easily; for the pieces of the past are a consolation of the present, and one would like to feel that a man's likings are his important self, and are betrayed by his choices.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "likings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
