His explanation depends on some conception of the potentialities of conjugation and intercrossing which I confess I cannot understand.
Who shall measure the spreading and seeding potentialities of a thistle-down or a catchy phrase?
The potentialities of humor as a circulation agency," opined Severance in his smoothest academic voice, "have never been properly exploited.
We should be forced to do so, if life had employed all the psychic potentialities it contains in making pure understandings; that is to say, in preparing mathematicians.
Along these different paths the complementarypotentialities are produced and intensified, separating in the very process, their original interpretation being possible only in the state of birth.
Several contrary potentialities interpenetrated at their common source, but of this source each of these kinds of activity preserves or rather accentuates only one tendency; and it will be easy to mark its dual character.
Intelligible entities not merely images, but potentialities for memory, iv.
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For most of the world’s peoples, the consequences ranged from profound ignorance about both human potentialities and the physical universe, to naïve attachment to theologies that bore little or no relation to experience.
Through the Revelation of God to humanity’s coming of age, the full potentialities of this creative force have at last been released and the means necessary to the realization of the Divine purpose have been instituted.
Ahead lay the thousand or thousands of years in which the potentialities that this creative force has planted in human consciousness will gradually unfold.
A reality also being forced on serious minds everywhere, is the claim of justice to be the one means capable of harnessing these great potentialities to the advancement of civilization.
They were prefigured for him, in order to the sharp-setting of his wits, in a score or so instruments, all slack and somnolent and unstrung for the time being, but suggestive of hideous potentialities in their tautening.
Wealth, though Merton thought so poorly of it, had supplied these potentialities of enjoyment; but, alas!
Science, as a rule beneficent, has given birth to potentialities of crime which exceed the dreams of oriental romance.
Nor is it within the pale of possibility that such latent productive potentialities as have been established at Rawhide can long remain in great part dormant.
Careful and industrious reading of the mass of market literature sent through the mails by the Scheftels corporation has failed to disclose deliberate misrepresentation regarding the potentialities of any of the mining properties.
To affirm a snake is to affirm potentialities going beyond what is actually given; it says that what is given is going to do something--the doing characteristic of a snake, so that we are to react to the given as to a snake.
The potentialities are far-reaching, and unless the organization is checked in that direction, the consequences must necessarily be grave.
Or again, the potentialities are the particularized universal (Being), which has become the multitude of the things of which each is the total unity; and these potentialities are mutually similar.
It is equally absurd to suppose that the potentialitieswould be separated from the beings to which they belong.
It is in this manner that the inferior potentialities proceed from the superior ones.
There might also be reason to ask oneself if the potentialities which are in the sense-world are still or no longer in the universal (Being).
Every man's ideal lies within the potentialities of his nature, for only by expressing his nature can ideals possess authority or attraction over him.
He hasten to unfold in meditation the abstract potentialities of his mind.
Potentialities are dispositions, and a disposition involves an order, as does also the passage from any specific potentiality into act.
There is no ideal à priori; an ideal can but express, if it is genuine, the balance of impulses and potentialities in a given soul.
It makes the dumb speak, and plucks from the animal heart potentialitiesof expression which might render it, perhaps, even more than human.
Half the potentialitiesin the human race are thus stifled, half its incapacities fostered and made inveterate.
Life is no objectless dream, but continually embodies, with varying success, the potentialities it contains and that prompt desire.
Are they not, in their deepest essence, potentialitiesand powers?
They are onlypotentialities or conditions of excellence.
Fulfilment is mutual, in one direction bringing material potentialities to the light and making them actual and conscious, and in the other direction embodying intent in the actual forms of things and manifesting reason.
I looked at some of his work, and I found in it potentialities of illimitable promise.
Women are in this sense immediately responsible for the war, because they have not been true to the limitless potentialities of their being.
We have still to consider whether close blockade is within the limit of the force we have available, and whether it is the best method of developing the fullest potentialities of that force.
To these men, at any rate, he was of importance, not so much, perhaps, for what he was doing at the time as for the potentialities of the future.
What had been turbulent potentialities were harnessed; they had been harnessed by an idea, and that idea was that the needs of his country demanded a certain service of him.
That he failed in his crusade of Church reform, and that Luther succeeded in his, was due to no difference between Italian and German character, but to the vast difference in the political potentialities of the two cases.
Potentialities are "innate" in all populations, according to their culture stage, and it was their total environment that specialized the Greeks as a community.
It means that all Nature is pervaded by an interior personalness, infinite in its potentialities of intelligence, responsiveness, and power of expression, and only waiting to be called into activity by our recognition of it.
The baby may be a potential Newton, Shakespeare, Beethoven or Buddha, but it is at its birth the most helpless thing alive, the potentialities of which avail it not one whit.
Nevertheless education has a true function for race-culture in addition to the obvious fact of its necessity in order to realise the inherent potentialities of the individual.
As contrasted with the whole mass of his predecessors, man comes into the world denuded of defensive armour, destitute of offensive weapons, possessed alone of the potentialities of the psychical.
Newton himself was a seven months' baby, and the potentialities of gravitation and the calculus and the laws of motion in his brain could not save him: motherhood could and did.
These potentialitiesconstitute a limiting condition which no education can transcend.
For, be it repeated, the church has always known and feared the spiritual potentialities of woman's freedom.
The cell plasms of these peoples are freighted with the potentialities of the best in Old World civilization.
The idea of Christ is older than the life of Jesus; nor does the life of Jesus, as it has come down to us in ecclesiastical tradition, exhaust or fulfil all the potentialities latent in the idea of Christ.
And this is the same thing as saying that philosophy, considered in its essential nature, is nothing less than art--the art of flinging itself upon the world with all the potentialities of the soul functioning in rhythmic harmony.
The Ambulance Corps shows the latest potentialities in our young men that are capable of development under proper guidance and training.
Outside the actual lives of the pair there must always be many types of thought and many potentialities which can only be realised in the lives of other people.
It is true that they are separated at the dinner table, but they are always within the possibility of earshot of each other, which very often deadens their potentialities for being entertaining.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potentialities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
