Let us not delay a moment without some good and obvious cause.
It was too obvious now that their situation was imminently perilous to need the aid of language to confirm it.
They proceeded into the wood, making as broad and obvious a trail as possible.
For the artist envisaged in the "Dissertation" is still, in spite of his obvious attempts to have it otherwise, the artist as conceived of by Blackwell and the rest of Scott's predecessors.
But it is obvious that this Great Man theory gave no scientific clue to history.
There is an obviousinconsistency between the treatment of Materialism in "Science and Socialism" and its treatment in "The Nihilism of Socialism.
Satisfied that she could do no further harm, the Spaniard luffed and hove to, awaiting the obvious result and intent upon picking up what slaves she could to man the galleys of his Catholic Majesty on the Mediterranean.
His own alert mind had already foreseen this one chance of escaping from the trap, but he had hoped that it would not be quite so obvious to the others.
It should not be difficult to transmute that obvious dejection of Asad's into resentment, and to fan this into a rage that must end by consuming Sakr-el-Bahr.
And affectionately, as if to soothe the lad's obvious alarm, he patted his brother's shoulder.
They saw his arms drop limply to his sides, and his eyes dilate with obvious sudden fear.
He had never considered that so obvious a conclusion must follow upon his work so fully to explain the happening and to set at rest any doubt concerning it.
He had been a fool to have permitted himself to be intrigued by so shallow, so obvious a purpose.
Yet what the prisoner urged was a truth soobvious that it was difficult to apprehend how his lordship had come to overlook it.
He laid such a stress upon these words that it was obvious he desired them to convey a second meaning.
His constancy, the humility with which he made his suit, the obvious intensity of his devotion, began at last to wear away that gentlewoman's opposition, as dripping water wears away a stone.
Urged thus the Turk offered another five Philips, but with obvious reluctance.
Very slowly and with obvious effort Lionel turned his head to the right, and his dull eyes went beyond Sir John and made quest in the ranks of those that stood about him.
It is plain that our meat-eating ancestors would think in this way, and, being unrestrained by the mawkish sentiment attendant upon high civilization, would act habitually upon the obvious suggestion.
Passing down Commercial-street one fine day, I observed a lady standing alone in the middle of the sidewalk, with no obvious business there, but with apparently no intention of going on.
Now, quite apart from any assumption as to causality, it is obvious that complete knowledge would embrace the future as well as the past.
Now in such a case as the repeated reading of a poem, it is obvious that our feelings in reading the poem are most emphatically dependent upon the past, but not upon one single event in the past.
This is obvious in all our previous instances: we infer the unperceived lightning from the thunder, not in virtue of any peculiarity of the thunder, but in virtue of its resemblance to other claps of thunder.
It is obvious that his argument assumes absolute space; but it is spatial relations that are alone important, and they cannot be reduced to points.
Everything else is confusion of thought, due to the feeling that knowledge compels the happening of what it knows when this is future, though it is at once obvious that knowledge has no such power in regard to the past.
Usually it will be found that a number of these extraordinarily abstract questions underlie any one of the bigobvious problems.
Now it is fairly obvious that, whatever legitimate meaning we give to the Self, our thoughts and feelings are causally dependent upon ourselves, i.
It is obvious that there is some degree of correlation between brain and mind, and it is impossible to say how complete it may be.
When once the above general doctrine is rejected, it is obvious that, where there is change, there must be a succession of states.
It is obvious that if the particle were to jump suddenly from P to some other point Q, our definition would fail for all intervals P1P2 which were too small to include Q.
In the above statement, there are two obvious lacunae: (1) How is the method of simple enumeration itself justified?
It is obvious that the senses give knowledge of the latter kind: the immediate facts perceived by sight or touch or hearing do not need to be proved by argument, but are completely self-evident.
As a physical fact, the "insularity" of America is immensely more obvious and more nearly complete than that of Britain; and it is no less so as a moral fact.
What is obvious is that in both is working the same Anglo-Saxon trait--the tendency to insist upon the independence of the individual.
It is obvious that, however blurred the party lines may be in individual cases, the man who in England is by instinct and conviction a Conservative, must in America by the same impulse be a Republican.
To which I can but make theobvious reply that I have already said that Americans think so.
It is not only obvious that the latter is just as honest as the former, but he can well afford to pay his men a shilling or two a week more in wages.
It will be salutary in the first place for the obvious reason that business will have to start again conservatively and with inflated values reduced to something below normal levels.
It is obvious that two years is too short a term for any but an exceptionally gifted man to make his mark, either in the eyes of his colleagues or of his constituency, by conspicuous national services.
But it will be even more salutary for the less obvious reason that it has intensified the already acute disgust of the business men of the country as a whole with what are known as "Wall Street methods.
The first obvious fact is that all treaties are made by the President "by and with the advice and consent of the Senate" and no treaty is valid until ratified by a vote of the Senate in which "two thirds of the Senators present concur.
But, with its obvious disadvantages, youth in a nation has also compensations.
I should imagine it would look very queer," said the Englishman whom he was addressing, with obvious coolness; and the American was entirely aware that every person in that carriage regarded him as a typical American liar.
This deduction of morals from self-love, or a regard to private interest, is an obvious thought, and has not arisen wholly from the wanton sallies and sportive assaults of the sceptics.
Here is a principle, which accounts, in great part, for the origin of morality: And what need we seek for abstruse and remote systems, when there occurs one so obvious and natural?
The utility of courage, both to the public and to the person possessed of it, is an obvious foundation of merit.
This position is derived from a strict and regular prosecution of the obvious truth, that empty words alone, without any meaning or intention in the speaker, can never be attended with any effect.
And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter.
The most obvious objection to the selfish hypothesis is, that, as it is contrary to common feeling and our most unprejudiced notions, there is required the highest stretch of philosophy to establish so extraordinary a paradox.
But in all decisions of taste or external beauty, all the relations are beforehand obvious to the eye; and we thence proceed to feel a sentiment of complacency or disgust, according to the nature of the object, and disposition of our organs.
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomenon, is probably the true one.
It is obvious that the real glory of America is to be something entirely different from that of which the ancients boasted.
It is not surely so simple, or so obvious as to have occurred to the reasoning mind of a pagan philosopher; or if it be, why do Unitarians suppose it to involve a contradiction?
It will be obviousalso to any one, that the inhabitants of the sun cannot see any heavenly body, as the stars, and planets; because they are inclosed by those clouds, which are impenetrable to vision.
Some of the most obvious evidences in favor of it may be introduced here.
It seems very obvious that there can be only three primitive colors, namely, red, yellow, and blue; since all the colors can be made by means of these.
From several expressions in this chapter, it is obvious that Mr. Wood considered the account given by Moses, in the first chapter of Genesis, to apply to universal creation, and not to be restricted to our Solar System.
In this case it is so obvious that the lightning had an immediate agency, that none can doubt, who ever observed the phenomenon.
The natural and obvious answer is, it was in combination in a latent state with the burning bodies, and by combustion it was set free, and thrown out, and thus put the surrounding luminiferous ether in motion.
As this first class of sea animals breathe the air, it is obvious they cannot bear to be a long time at once under water.
So that it is not necessary that these properties should be obvious in the muscles of all animals.
As the motion caused by a stone lett fall into the water is by circles, so sounds move by spheres in the same manner; which, though obvious enough, I doe not remember to have seen in any booke.
As the motion caused by a stone lett fall into the water is by circles, so sounds move by spheres in the same manner, which, though obvious enough, I doe not remember to have seen in any booke.
They took the additional precautions of limiting their circle to a small number of investigators of scientific reputations, and well known to each other, always avoiding a promiscuous company for obvious reasons.
It is far better to err on the side of healthy skepticism, than of over-credulity, and it is an admirable rule never to hunt about for an occult explanation of anything when a plain and obvious physical one is available.
Japan's interest is tooobvious to require mention; but England's interest, in my opinion, is equally real.
The same word in the Gothic or ancient German waz spelt bar;[75] and probably in some dialects par, for the convertibility of b with p iz obvious to every etymologist.
That each shire had its bishop, seems to be obvious from a law of Edgar, c.
In no particular iz the neglect of parents and guardians more obvious and fatal, than in suffering the bodies of their children to grow without care.
That they were repositories of the dead has been obvious to all; but on what particular occasion constructed, was matter of doubt.
The expedient was obvious and produced good effects.
But that table is the name of an article, and hard or square is its property, is a distinction obvious to the senses, and consequently within a child's capacity.
Some publications certainly may be a breach of civil law: You will not have the effrontery to deny a truth so obvious and intuitivly evident.
It was now made obvious that more effectual measures would be taken to establish the supremacy of the British parliament over the colonies.
A little attention to the structure of the human body, and the effect of heet and cold upon it, led the ancients to the obvious and almost infallable meens of garding themselves from diseeze.
The emission of paper was an obvious and necessary expedient; yet it was bad policy to throw vast sums into circulation without taking some measures to recall it.
This appeers very extraordinary, that an equality of suffrage should giv an appellation in preference to difference of rank, which iz, so much moreobvious and more flattering to the haughty barons.
The war cry, however, is too obvious a means of popular excitement to be readily given up.
On the path it was obvious that they must walk in couples.
Frau von Treumann had told her an untruth, a quiteobvious and absurd untruth in the face of the correspondence, as to the reason of her coming to Kleinwalde.
It has defects, obvious enough to a critical eye, but its general excellence strikes every reader.
The Course of Time" has many obvious faults, but abounds in strokes of genius and power.
I hope awfully that I shall be able to stay," said Charlie, with obvious sincerity.
Shortly before the adjustment of the plaster casts, my legs, for obvious reasons, were shaved from shin to calf.
For severalobvious reasons it is well that I did not at that time attempt to convince a jury that I was mentally sound.
The reader, too, will no doubt think it a very obvious manoeuvre, but some things are managed badly in life as well as in books.
Some of the members looked up at him and laughed; others began to make frantic signs, indicative of helplessness; still others telegraphed him obvious advice about reenforcements which, if anything, increased his fury.
But to be abandoned, as Susan had abandoned them, and with such obvious intent, creates quite a different atmosphere.
A painter staring at his picture, day after day as it grows under his hand, may completely overlook faults that are obvious even to an untrained eye.
The reason for the classification in the case of malarial fevers isobvious enough, but for the other diseases I never was able to find out upon what they founded their conclusions.
It was obvious that the Amir was very ill, and I said in English to the Armenian, "Enquire if His Highness wishes to place himself under my medical care.
He gave me further information about the Afghans as a nation: though he described more their obvious characteristics than those that are unknown to European investigators.
Why, to the obvious end of getting the Prince a wife--at Maggie's expense.
He needed no caution, being instinctively aware that if one parental duty could be more obvious than another to the tradesman, it would be that of crushing such folly as Friedrich was displaying by timely severity.
And it is obvious that nothing can be more perilous than the encouragement of so fatal a principle of judgment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obvious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
