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Example sentences for "phases"

Lexicographically close words:
pharyngeal; pharyngitis; pharynx; phase; phased; phasi; phasis; phat; pheasant; pheasants
  1. And if we knew more about the battle we should probably find its principal phases hinted at in the groups.

  2. The higher phases of the mental and spiritual life, mysticism, symbolism, and the like are not to be expressed with complete simplicity in any form of art.

  3. There were thus three chief phases within the church; the dogmatic at Leipsic, the critical at Göttingen, the pietistic eclecticism of Semler at Halle.

  4. A list of them, with an account of the phases of doctrine described, is given in Kurtz’s Church History, E.

  5. An intelligent acquaintance with the many phases of history operates like foreign travel in widening the sympathies; and increase of knowledge creates the moderation which gains the victory through attracting an enemy instead of repelling him.

  6. The microcosm and the macrocosm were one; thought, and the mind that thinks; or, more truly, both were phases of the universal mind which was unfolding.

  7. Human emotion is indeed their theme; but it is the phases of passion in living, acting, and conflicting personalities which the drama undertakes to depict.

  8. From reflection on the laws of human thought, on the varied acquisitions of the human mind, and on the successive phases of human history, it carries over the synthetic statement of its conclusions to the account of the universe.

  9. They come and pass away as phases of what we must believe is an evolution towards higher things.

  10. We have to admit that there may be, and indeed must be, many phases and aspects of saving truth which we cannot comprehend.

  11. Nature may be regarded either as the home of man, and consequently associated with all the phases of his existence; or as an assemblage of symbols, manifesting the thoughts of the Creator.

  12. Of the important phases of this period the editor gives a slight sketch in the following paragraphs.

  13. Crime, mental disease, and malingering should perhaps here be looked upon as different phases of a mode of reaction to life's problems which belongs to a lower cultural level, which is largely infantile in character.

  14. Those Lectures wonderfully anticipated the changing phases of the materialistic infidelity developed since his day, and applied to them the reductio ad absurdum with relentless and resistless power.

  15. If you are going to write poetry you must say to certain phases of the newspapers, 'Get thee behind me, Satan!

  16. They were well written, they were interesting, they described some phases of the Civil War truthfully and vividly.

  17. I wish our writers would pay less attention to the direct manifestations of sex and more to its indirect influence, to the ways in which it affects all phases of activity.

  18. He had gained a distinctive place as an interpreter of phases of Southern life in the company which includes Cable, Harris, and Johnston.

  19. The causal organism has not been determined with certainty, but it has been shown that the milk of affected animals possesses infectious properties[98] although appearing unchanged in earlier phases of the disease.

  20. The art of cheese-making, like all other phases of dairying, has been developed mainly as a result of empirical methods.

  21. In a tuberculous animal, even in the very earliest phases of the disease, tuberculin causes a temporary fever that lasts for a few hours.

  22. The Painted Beauty= Vanessa huntera One of the most interesting phases of the study of butterflies is to learn how often they take advantage in their life-history of any peculiarity of the food plant which has a protective value.

  23. There are already in many of the museums of the world collections of butterflies which illustrate the various phases of true mimicry--the resemblance of one species to another in the same region.

  24. That this is true of the structure of living things is easily observed but it is not so well known, because not so easily observed, that most species of animals differ also in the precise phases of their growth.

  25. Some of the more interesting phases in the development of these insects are discussed in connection with the life-stories of the different species.

  26. The animals of the north show numberless color phases of interest.

  27. There are many other phases of butterfly life which could be utilized as the basis for interesting collections.

  28. Thayer have called attention to many interesting phases of dazzling coloration.

  29. Consequently, there is less opportunity for the various phases of counter-shading which is so commonly shown in the larger caterpillars.

  30. This is a story of adventure and of battle, but it is also an informing presentation of life in England and some phases of life in France in the fourteenth century.

  31. They were expressions of her giant moods--what in himself were thoughts--phases of her ample, surging Consciousness.

  32. On the other hand, the work of the other two phases of study can to a large extent be made pretty uniform throughout the country.

  33. The phases of living together and mutual help just discussed concerned in each instance a single species of animal.

  34. The struggle for existence is always operative; but in some cases one or more phases of it may be ameliorated.

  35. Its ruined temples, monasteries, monuments, and idols are scattered everywhere, while some of these have been perpetuated and adopted by those later phases of Hinduism which its own toleration helped to bring into existence.

  36. Then, as I proceeded, I began to feel that to do justice to my subject I should be compelled to enlarge the range of my researches, so as to embrace some of the later phases and modern developments of Buddhism.

  37. To attempt an explanation of all the subsequent phases of Buddhism would, as I have before stated, require the command of unlimited time.

  38. Indeed there is good evidence that Buddhism developed in India a greater number of schools and phases of thought than Brahmanism itself.

  39. Hence the development of the later phases of the Maha-yana system, the chief feature of which was a marked change in the meaning attached to the term 'Bodhi-sattva.

  40. But can the reader understand that a man, who is possibly very much shrewder than himself in reading at a glance many phases of character, and in countless trickeries, should be literally unable to answer such a question?

  41. The tendency here has been to give undue emphasis to certain phases of Paul's teaching.

  42. The Book, too, touches on all the phases of comfort that we may gather from the surface of life, only it does not make them either a full gospel of consolation or a large part of that gospel.

  43. Inasmuch as Jesus commended the qualities shown in these various phases of service, we are allowed to think that he regarded the legitimate occupations of everyday life as both representing and fulfilling the kingdom of God.

  44. There are certain phases of this filbert blight that are rather obscure and scarcely explainable; as, for instance, its virulence among some species and varieties, and almost if not total absence among others.

  45. Insects may occasionally become exceedingly numerous in certain localities for a few years, then suddenly or slowly disappear; but this we must expect, as one of the coexisting phases of all agricultural pursuits.

  46. A successful grand opera demands all that is highest in music, drama, and a host of other phases of cultured training.

  47. With many of the celebrated characters of literature this interest has grown quite apart from interest in the plot, and they stand to-day as the embodiment of phases of human nature.

  48. With true vision, the results of the East were traced to the original source of inspiration, and henceforth Nature in all her forms, in all her varying phases and moods, became the mirror into which Copenhagen looked to see herself reflected.

  49. It is, therefore, of great interest, commingled with considerable speculation, to contemplate the various stages of evolution of this characteristic style, and to await the future phases of its development.

  50. The Light=, so far as I know purity literature, is, beyond all comparison, the best periodical on the varied phases of the broad subject of the sex problem as it agitates the world today.

  51. Few mothers begin to comprehend the mental phases that attend the dawning of womanhood.

  52. It is especially valuable for one who feels debilitated, and is of value in several phases of heart disease.

  53. The wise father looks after less important phases of his son’s education.

  54. There are no signs of its bulging out at the equator, as the laws of fluid equilibrium in a rotating mass would require; but there are some that the fluctuations in its depth are connected with the phases of solar agitation.

  55. This initial opportunity of measuring the heat phases of an eclipsed moon was used with the remarkable result of showing that the heat disappeared almost completely, though not quite simultaneously, with the light.

  56. The truth of this hypothesis can be tested by close observation of the phases of the star during the next few years.

  57. Now the phases of Mercury--so far as could be determined from only two sets of observations--correspond with the latter kind of structure.


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