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Example sentences for "precisely because"

  • And where Kings and Caesars never will be hailed for their power and wealth, there the persecuted chief of a downtrodden nation is welcomed as your great Republic's guest, precisely because he is persecuted, helpless, and poor.

  • But he was so sincere in his purpose of resigning her to his friend, that he did not trust himself even to touch her, precisely because he felt that she would not have resisted.

  • Precisely because he's in the habit of telling me everything, it's hard for him to communicate with me, even an hour every day, by his pen.

  • No, precisely because she is better than I thought, I must make room for her.

  • And, precisely because it is not independent, knowledge cannot be said to depend on it: knowledge ceases to be a product of the intellect and becomes, in a certain sense, part and parcel of reality.

  • We omit it, precisely because it does not occur to us to distinguish two kinds of order that are irreducible to one another.

  • Precisely because it is always trying to reconstitute, and to reconstitute with what is given, the intellect lets what is new in each moment of a history escape.

  • It is precisely because a cerebral state expresses simply what there is of nascent action in the corresponding psychical state, that the psychical state tells us more than the cerebral state.

  • I desire them to be as affable and humane as possible, as conciliatory as can be with this present century, which seems to be escaping us, precisely because there is a misunderstanding between us.

  • For when all is said Duvillard knows what is in the article, and it is precisely because it is so favourable a one that he wishes to see it in the 'Globe.

  • The case of Michael Angelo seems to me decisive, for he is the superhuman master, the monster who overwhelms all others, precisely because he brought forth that magnificent living flesh which offends your sense of delicacy.

  • Moreover, the conditional sentence, precisely because it is a graft on the old classic stock of penal justice, has another very serious defect, inasmuch as it overlooks the victims of the offence.

  • The positive school, precisely because it aims at an equilibrium between individual and social rights, is not content with taking the part of society against the individual.

  • In consequence, a sublime object, precisely because it thwarts the senses, is suitable with relation to reason, and it gives to us a joy by means of a higher faculty, at the same time that it wounds us in an inferior one.

  • But in the aesthetic judgment this same act delights me; it delights me precisely because it testifies to a power of will capable of resisting even the most potent of instincts, that of self-preservation.

  • Precisely because it can never be subjected to a decisive test.

  • This it is which justifies the method instinctively adopted by the scientist, and what justifies it still better, perhaps, is that oft-recurring facts appear to us simple, precisely because we are used to them.

  • I begin by saying this memoir is very interesting, and my taking it here as example is precisely because it is the most important of all those written in the new language.

  • It is precisely because Goethe is an elusive Proteus that all doctrines may equally claim him.

  • And it is necessary for us to submit, precisely because of our virtues.

  • And it is necessary for the Prussians to rule, precisely because of their shortcomings.

  • Precisely because he was not vain and had no pretension to beauty, he had escaped the photograph mania.

  • You asked me an impossible thing, that I was obliged to refuse, to my regret, precisely because it was impossible; but you know that I am yours, and will do all I can for your family.

  • Precisely because he may be what you think, reserve is necessary.

  • The theme relating to fire in the belly of the monster may be regarded as fairly unambiguous evidence of the influence of celestial phenomena, precisely because it is related only externally and apparently accidentally to the action.

  • Precisely because it lay outside the realm of philosophy, it was subjected to the influence of the various schools, though it was most decisively affected by Platonism and Stoicism.

  • It is precisely because of this connection with mythological conceptions that world empires were but transitory.

  • Johnson could grow in his own way to his own stature in the net of the Ten Commandments; precisely because he was convinced there were only ten of them.

  • Such ghosts seemed particularly solid in the Southern States, precisely because of the comparative quietude and leisure of the atmosphere of the South.

  • And in something of the same spirit the American may exclude a polygamist, precisely because he cannot exclude a Turk.

  • The missionary can condemn a cannibal, precisely because he cannot condemn a Sandwich Islander.

  • And the reason that such a picture ought not to be in a museum, is precisely because in a museum people ought not to fancy themselves on a racecourse.

  • And, perhaps, it is precisely because of his wisdom that he can so exactly discern the enchantment of his childhood.

  • The same intuition can only be expressed in one way, precisely because it is an intuition and not a concept.

  • If lies and deceit are in his mind, then the form which he gives to these things cannot be deceit or lies, precisely because it is aesthetic.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    canine teeth; carbonic oxide; carburetted hydrogen; dinner parties; direct assault; gaue them; great pile; her new; infinite time; middle size; more easily; open wire; over hill and dale; precisely because; precisely similar; precisely the same manner; precisely what; religious freedom; said before; said gaily; thee good; then removed; thousand livres; three hundred thousand more; ventral surface