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Example sentences for "parallelism"

Lexicographically close words:
parallaxes; parallel; paralleled; paralleles; paralleling; parallelisms; parallelogram; parallelograms; parallels; paralogism
  1. When the sentence is thus corrected, the parallelism of δι’ ἅ .

  2. The parallelism of the two relations is kept in view throughout.

  3. But the alliteration and parallelism do not run quite side by side, the second half of each alliterative couplet being parallel with the first half of the next couplet.

  4. As alliteration, at first a mere memoria technica, became an ornamental adjunct, and grew more developed, the parallelism gradually dropped out.

  5. Whatever parallelism experience actually finds between them is not deducible from either concept: there is nothing in the definition of the sensation blue to suggest an afferent nervous current; nothing in the latter to suggest a sensation.

  6. The answer is found in the social parallelism already mentioned.

  7. I am fully persuaded that this double parallelism is by no means an accident or an illusion.

  8. A similar parallelism holds good with an allied yet very different class of facts.

  9. Notwithstanding this general parallelism in the conditions of Old and New Worlds, how widely different are their living productions!

  10. But the parallelism between the passages lies not only in the general principle but also in the literary setting.

  11. The late Sir Gaston Maspero indeed called it "a dry deluge myth", but his paradox was intended to emphasize the difference as much as the parallelism presented.

  12. The narrative thus betrays undoubted parallelism to the Babylonian and Hebrew stories, so far as concerns the attempted annihilation of mankind by the offended god, but there the resemblance ends.

  13. Tiamat makes the resemblance of the versions far more significant than if their parallelism were confined solely to ideas.

  14. No parallelism lies between man's selfish refusal and God's wise and beneficent waiting.

  15. This distinction will be found to hold true, even in instances where there seems the closest parallelism between a Rabbinic and an Evangelic parable.

  16. To extend this parallelism to the series themselves, in their totality, is to settle a priori the problem of freedom.

  17. No more are we entitled to conclude because the psychical fact is hung on to a cerebral state that there is any parallelism between the two series psychical and physiological.

  18. Aristotelian Soc, Vol 9 "Psycho-physical Parallelism as a working hypothesis in Psychology.

  19. The notion of an equality or parallelism between conscious activity and cerebral activity, was commonly adopted by modern physiology, and it was adopted without discussion as a scientific notion by the majority of philosophers.

  20. We cannot admit Parallelism as a dogma--as a metaphysical truth--however useful it may be as a working hypothesis.

  21. We must, however, abandon the notion of any rigid and determined parallelism between soul and body and accustom ourselves to the fact that the life of the mind is wider than the limits of cerebral activity.

  22. Parallelism is far too simple an explanation to be a true one.

  23. Before the International Congress, Bergson launched another attack on parallelism which caused quite a little sensation among those present.

  24. Parallelism was adopted by science because of its convenience.

  25. He there set out to show that Parallelism cannot be consistently stated from any point of view, for it rests on a fallacious argument--on a fundamental contradiction.

  26. Bergson however has more to assert than merely the inadequacy and falsity of Parallelism or Epiphenomenalism.

  27. The sexual parallelism is constant among nearly all vertebrates and arthropodes; it extends to identity among hermaphrodite mollusks if one then compare not two sexes but two individuals.

  28. Constancy of sexual parallelism in the animal series.

  29. There is a dimorphism, but it is that of the mould to the cast, of the scabbard to the blade; for the parts where the contact is less strict, the parallelism is nevertheless quite sensible and quite apparent.

  30. The angle of parallelism here referred to was that of forty-one degrees, which observation had proved to be invariably associated with the rainbow.

  31. But, the moment we deviate from the parallelism with the axis, double refraction sets in.

  32. His weakness has been a fondness for elaboration: in The Reign of Law a chapter is given to the life history of the hemp plant and to a parallelism between it and human life.

  33. And The Reign of Law is a parable from beginning to end, a linking of man to Nature, a parallelism between human life and the life of the hemp of the Kentucky fields: Ah!

  34. The parallelism with Keats may be pressed far.

  35. Summer in Arcady is built up around a parallelism that extends into every part of the story: Can you consider a field of butterflies and not think of the blindly wandering, blindly loving, quickly passing human race?

  36. The simple quoting of the passage will be sufficient to show the parallelism and correspondence of the thoughts, if not of the expressions,— “Jaques.

  37. But a closer parallelism to Corrozet’s Emblem of beauty joined to goodness occurs in Henry VIII.

  38. But the entire force of this parallelism in thought is scarcely to be apprehended, unless we mark Angelo’s previous conflict of desire and judgment.

  39. Here the parallelism is not due, as supposed by Materialism, to a determining Ab, b determining Bc, &c.

  40. Therefore, before reason can allow the theory of automatism to pass, it must be told how this wonderful fact of parallelism is to be explained.

  41. Still more clearly will this be seen on recognising the fact that there is a certain parallelism between reasoning and classification; that the two have a common root; and that neither can go on without the other.

  42. And there has not only thus been a simultaneous and parallel genesis, but there is also a parallelism of results.

  43. Hobb's parallelism of society and the human body, 389.

  44. And Sir Charles Lyell admits that "the difficulty of deciding on the exact parallelism of the New York subdivisions, as above enumerated, with the members of the European Devonian, is very great, so few are the species in common.

  45. We shall find that the parallelism becomes the more marked the more closely it is traced.

  46. Now even were there truth in the implied assumption of a parallelism between the structure of a society and that of a man, this classification would be indefensible.

  47. In practice, the source is an elongated slit, whose direction requires to be carefully adjusted to parallelism with the reflecting surface or surfaces.

  48. Some of them, as Delius observes, emphasize the parallelism between the stories of Lear and Gloster.

  49. But the most important isolated case of literary parallelism is the well-known passage in Apol.

  50. The very parallelism between St. Matthew and St. Luke shows that both Gospels were composed at a date when various traditions as to the early portions of the history were current.

  51. At least one case of parallelism seems to prove almost decisively the use of the first Gospel.

  52. But even this seeming parallelism fails when we remember the respective sequels.

  53. This parallelism is more frequently double, sometimes triple.

  54. Indeed, there is hardly a better example of the modern propensity of the dramatic and religious styles to reflect each other's lineaments than is found in the close parallelism which appears in Gounod's secular and church productions.

  55. The south aisle is 6 feet narrower than the north at the west end, but its want of parallelism adds 7 feet to its width at its far eastern end.

  56. By standing within either transept and looking up at the roof the want of parallelism of the walls and other irregularities are plainly seen.

  57. There is art, too, in the parallelism of the first and last three verses.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parallelism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accord; accordance; affinity; agreement; alignment; allegory; alliance; analogy; approach; approximation; assent; assimilation; balance; balancing; chorus; closeness; coherence; coincidence; community; comparison; compatibility; concert; concord; concordance; concurrence; conformation; conformity; confrontation; congeniality; congruence; congruity; consistency; consonance; consort; contrast; cooperation; correlation; correspondence; equality; equation; equilibrium; equipoise; equity; equivalence; evenness; finish; harmony; identity; imitation; intersection; justice; keeping; kinship; likeness; matching; metaphor; nearness; oneness; opposing; opposition; overlap; par; parallel; parallelism; parity; peace; poise; polarity; proportion; rapport; regularity; relation; resemblance; sameness; semblance; simile; similitude; simulation; simultaneity; symmetry; synchronism; tally; timing; uniformity; union; unison