Just because general assembly for free play affords abnormal units the best chance to imbue their betters with the bad, is just why the latter should be most carefully guarded by State agents on recreative fields.
Clean and uplifting recreative exercises for repeating felons should be regulated to meet the requirements of necessary mental and physical relaxation.
Periods of play should be, as they are not, so planned as to coincide with free-life recreative hours.
If a girl has work to do, everything should be so arranged as not to deprive the vacation of its recreative side.
She does not isolate herself, for she sees the plan and value of the recreative side of school-days.
He has had a double aim--to keep his work recreative and to make it useful.
His creed has always been that fiction is a recreative art, and we have no better sample of a manly and stout-hearted optimist than he.
The first is a relaxation of the tense schoolroom atmosphere, valuable for its refreshing recreative power.
One of the best functions of the public library is to raise this recreative reading of the community to higher and higher levels; to replace trash with literature of a better order.
When these and the other three (Natural sciences, Industrial arts, Recreative and fine arts) are printed, a full index to the whole will be made.
Still others appear to allow their boys and girls to roam at will and to indulge them only in the recreative experiences.
Inspired by the splendid pioneer work of the National Playground Association, the cities and towns have recently made very rapid progress in the establishment of playgrounds and recreative centers for old and young.
Better health, greater satisfaction, and a richer life wait on the wise development of this recreative ideal.
The schedule given below will indicate the relative amount of time that should be given to such recreative indulgences.
And to say that this is also exactly what the recreativecritic does, is to say that the interpretative musician is creator in the same sense as is the composer of the music that he interprets.
His Resurrection and Ascension together are the condition of His recreative action as a quickening Spirit on the entire nature of man.
The mysterious facts which lie at the root of the recreative process must be briefly noticed.
For by the Resurrection that Nature is spiritualized, is released from earthly limitations, and becomes available as a recreative force.
To the inhabitants the huge rock is a recreative resort: seats are placed at its base; a zigzag path leads to the summit, whence the views over the valley of the Ribble are very picturesque and pleasing.
I thought that Ribbledin, at least, might have been saved from spade and mattock; and the more so as Sheffield, poisoned by smoke, can ill afford to lose any place of recreative resort in the neighbourhood.
The recreative instinct is not confined to children.
Besides the economic function the community has recreative and cultural functions to perform, and these need recognition and improvement.
It may call for freedom from the school and home occupations sufficient to give the recreative impulse due scope.
He was lonely too, He, too, must need his recreative hour.
When a special study becomes engrossing, the alternatives must rather be recreative than acquisitive; not much progress being made in what is slighted, or left over to the exhaustion caused by attention to the favourite topic.
By what recreative stimulants shall we irradiate the gloom of our idle hours and vacation periods?
These, fortunately, are supplemented by the eager alertness essential to the discovery and capture of game well worth the effort, and by the recreative and self-satisfying complacency of more or less skillful shooting.
No distinction is more important for any one who wishes to maintain a correct scale of values than that between what is merely recreative and what ministers to leisure.
One may, as I have said, in recreative moments allow one’s imagination to wander without control, but to take these wanderings seriously is to engage in a sort of endless pilgrimage in the void.
Art in which the illusion is not disciplined to the higher reality counts at best on the recreative side of life.
I cannot repeat too often that I have no quarrel with the nature cult when it remains recreative but only when it sets up as a substitute for philosophy and religion.
There are signs that Keats himself would not have been content in the long run with a purely recreative rôle--to be “the idle singer of an empty day.
There is no reason why in recreative moods one should not imagine one’s soul an enchanted boat and float away in a musical rapture with the ideal dream companion towards Arcady.
But in the abdication of analysis and critical judgment, which would have reduced it to a purely recreative rôle, this Arcadian dreaming was enabled to set up as a serious philosophy, and to expand into innumerable Utopias.
With a dalliant imagination that entitles him at best to play a recreative rôle, he sets up as a religious teacher.
It may like other forms of romanticism have a place on the recreative side of life.
When you indulge in recreation or recreative reading, do not let the mind worry about problems of your previous studies.
Make your recreative reading in itself have some aim.
Illustration: A one-sided hill-street in Geneva, possessing an incidental recreative value] 13.
In England the Recreative Evening Schools Association has accomplished something very like this by simply demonstrating its justice and usefulness.
Of late the Government has been assuming the care of recreative evening classes, little by little, and it looks as if ultimately all the work of the Evening Schools Association would be undertaken by the school boards.
On the other hand, the private society, club, order, and organization are essentially narrow, and formed with other purposes and ideals in view than ministering to the social and recreative needs and desires of the people.
The accompanying enjoyment is only a laxative and recreative means to something higher and more ultimate, and more real in human existence; and it is only on this ground that it becomes either rational or innocent.
The welfare work of our large stores and factories should provide opportunity, facilities, and leadership for recreative periods of this character.
In addition, the so-called gymnasium games offer some of the finest recreative exercise.
The ultimate test of any game, however, from the recreative standpoint must be one of interest, and this is often found among players who are not participating in the action if competition be close.
The proportion of recreative reading in a public library is necessarily large.
However, quality assumed, the general question as to the reading of recreative literature remains.
A few of them will love to read the best, many of them will want information at intervals, a large proportion want recreative reading, and the vast majority use the library not at all.
So if in the public library a large number of its users get their history, their travel and their biography through the medium of recreativereadings we should not complain.
In fact, if we look at the history of free public libraries in this country, we find that the one point of practice on which they have been criticised is the supply of merely recreative literature.
Business is business with a woman as well as a man, and the woman who succeeds in the calling she has chosen is the one who does not attempt to mix its details with matters of a more recreative nature.
The serious side and the recreative side of life find expression there.
Beer, ordinarily their solitary helper beneath the iron canopy of wealth, is known to them as a bitter usurer; it knocks them flat in their persons and their fortunes, for the short spell of recreative exaltation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recreative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
