Emotion has some ground, some incitement which calls it forth; and it responds with most energy to beauty.
Emotion is the intermediary between the divine order and the human will; itresponds to the beauty of the one and directs the choice of the other, and is felt in either function as love controlling life in the new births of the spirit.
Responds the Count:--"These arms have nobly struck.
Responds Gualtier:--"This am I bound to do For you.
Then Eli intones benedictions in chorale style, and the chorus responds with "Amens" in full harmony at the end of each, making a very impressive effect.
No voice responds to our cries of grief and dismay and too late repentance.
To such faith God responds by the elevating and strengthening assurance, "I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
But once assured that God is calling him, Abraham responds quickly and resolutely.
Let us first remember what is the outstanding attribute with which matter responds to mechanical causation.
Hence it depends on the 'age' of a piece of matter whether it responds to magical or mechanical causation.
His mind is as clear and rational as ever, notwithstanding his feebleness, and he gives me a thousand little proofs that he understands my affection and responds to it.
In condition of sub-tonicity the pulvinus of Mimosa responds to stimulus by an abnormal positive or erectile response.
The tree, apparently so rigid, responds as a gigantic pulvinoid to the changes of its environment.
A radial organ responds to stimulus by contraction in length; as all its flanks are equally excitable there is no lateral movement under diffuse stimulus.
The sensitiveness of Mimosa to electric stimulation is very great; the plant often responds to a shock which is quite imperceptible to a human subject.
Growing organs in sub-tonic condition responds to stimulus by abnormal acceleration of rate of growth, which is converted into normal retardation under continuous stimulation.
In a hyper-tonic condition its excitability becomes very great; in this condition the plant responds to its maximum even under very feeble stimulus.
Brother Springer took the joke good-naturedly andresponds in a pleasant manner, telling the advantage of being small; that his size enables him to get through places with ease where large men dare not attempt to go.
His Honor responds in a pleasant manner, bidding us welcome and giving us the freedom of the city.
Charlie, if you go I will go,” responds his bosom friend and chum, Brother Haas.
Let us suppose that religion responds to quite another need than that of adapting ourselves to sensible objects: then it will not risk being weakened by the fact that it does not satisfy, or only badly satisfies, this need.
It responds everywhere to one and the same need, and is everywhere derived from one and the same mental state.
In these pictures the maternal instincts are at play; the painters are so happy in their subject that their whole womanhood responds to it, making it a holy experience of their own glad hearts.
Where is it man's thoughts are deepest and strongest, where is it that his heart responds to the heart of the world until they beat throb for throb?
They had in them then, they have now, no single fibre that responds to the lighter and brighter things of this world.
Learn from this verse before us the solemn duty of rigid control, by the higher self, of the tremulous, emotional lower self which responds so completely to every change of temperature or circumstances in the world without.
It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master,' responds the Christian hope.
Then that voice, which thus respondsto the general statement of the first verse, is answered by a stream of promises.
A child may pass unscathed through an environment of vice, because there is nothing in the child-heart that responds to the call of sin.
The heart responds to the suggestion, and it would be a real pleasure to speak this unloving thought.
It affords no palliation," sharply responds the Judge, his face crimsoning with blushes.
And Christianity brings the mightiest motives for it, and imparts the power by which obedience to that great law that every man's conscience responds to is made possible.
There are no taskmasters with whips to stand over the heart that responds to Christ and to His love.
How the limitless, made manifest in the throbbing universe of stars, responds to the infinite which the most insignificant human soul contains.
The stimulation with which a healthy organism responds to rigorous conditions expresses itself in an increased efficiency that is usually invincible.
But it is a passion thatresponds very quickly to cultivation, and it requires constant care and education, just as the faculty for music or art does, or it will atrophy.
More than most cherries, this variety responds to good care and a choice cherry soil--a warm, free-working loam being best.
But the god himself is not professionally, only personally, present, and, wearing the disguise of Hercules, in no way notices or responds to the strophes which invoke him.
The stride of the cock sufficiently shows his royal origin, and his authority is still made evident by the alacrity with which the whole slumbering world responds to his morning reveille.
It responds to human encouragement, and by hanging a constant supply of suet this black-capped visitor can be made a regular feeder in suburban gardens or city yards.
It also responds to "squeaking," the technique bird watchers use to attract many species.
The practised typist respondsin this way to the words he is copying.
To this combination of stimuli he responds by saying the word.
The question is, then, what it is in us thatresponds to the appeal of the big.
He manipulates impulsively; seeing a possible opening he responds to it, and meeting a check he backs off and tries something else.
He sees the dog to the extent that he responds by visual sensations to the light coming from the dog, but not to the extent that he recognizes the dog as a dog.
He still respondsto present stimuli--otherwise he would be in a dream or trance and out of all touch with what was going on about him--but his actions are in part controlled by an inner motive.
More than this, when a cold spot is touched with a point heated well above the skin temperature (best to a little over 100 Fahrenheit), the curious fact is noted that the cold spot responds with its normal sensation of cold.
If we give a muscle electric shocks as stimuli, it responds to each shock by contracting.
When in this condition she responds to a nestful of eggs, as she does not at other times, by sitting persistently on them and keeping them covered.
Continued action of the same stimulus puts the sense into such a condition that it responds differently from at first, and usually more weakly.
In telling how certain things are alike or different, he obviously respondsto relationships; and so also in distinguishing between good and poor reasons for a certain fact.
Macaulay generally makes a hero of his man, shows him battling against odds, and the heroic side of our own nature awakens and responds to the author's plea.
The whole school responds with a shout, "Dolls and toys!
Me pie," responds he, with an innocent look; "I wuz scart it would get stole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "responds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
