Again, he was the selfless man, his sensibilities lost in the purpose he sought to establish.
A few days later, the sensibilities of the Congressmen were further exploited.
Nevertheless, from this quandary, in which his reason forced him to do one thing while all his sensibilities protested, he extricated himself in a curious way.
The mighty energy that was in Lincoln, a tireless, inexhaustible energy, was inward, of the spirit; it did not always ramify into the sensibilities and inform his outer life.
It explains nothing to ascribe their moral pollution to their finer sensibilities, for finer sensibilities ought to be attended by untarnished characters.
Old age, with its decay, with the extinction of earthly hopes, with the prospect of the tomb, has also dulled sensibilities that allow us not to feel many of the more painful things of early years.
You must reach out with your sensibilities and attune yourself to the world around you.
Japanese potters cherished their regional individuality, and they continued to express their personal sensibilities in their work, so there were a multiplicity of rural kilns and a wide variety of styles.
He would have to be a person of praeternatural patriotic sensibilities who could fall into an emotional state by reason of the national prestige of such a coalition commonwealth as would be made up, e.
But there need be no question as to their touching his sensibilities and stirring him to action, and even to acts of bravery and self-sacrifice.
But all the while it is the discipline which impinges on the sensibilities of this common mass that shapes the spiritual attitude and temper of the community and so defines what may and what may not be undertaken by the constituted leaders.
Caesar was not content with deposing Archelaus; he struck the people of Jerusalem in a manner that touched their pride, and keenly wounded the sensibilities of the haughty habitues of the Temple.
It is vitally important to the welfare and the continuance of the civilized race that sex-sensibilities should be preserved.
He had loved before that, keen sensibilities had been his, the sensibilities that inspired his art and made it so extraordinarily vital.
We must also allow for the varying sensibilitiesof different persons.
We have thus our 'pathology' or theory of the passive sensibilities of man.
Another wounded to the quick the pride and sensibilities of New York.
There was nothing, however, to which the jealoussensibilities of the colonies were more alive than to any attempt of the mother country to draw a revenue from them by taxation.
Nothing, however, produced a more powerful effect upon the public sensibilities throughout the country, than certain military demonstrations at Boston.
In visiting the repositories of the dead, it is calculated to awaken our liveliest sensibilities to trace the reign of the "king of terrors" upon the sepulchral stone, or the marble monument.
It is awful to contemplate how the finest sensibilities of our nature are sometimes blunted by a false faith.
But religion has crowned the practice with the weight of national sanction, and thus deadened the finer sensibilities of our nature.
Even the villa servants appeared to her awakened sensibilities to go about their duties perfunctorily, as if they too shared the general distrust in their employers.
She ended by uniting her various wounded sensibilities into a single feeling of resentment toward him.
This is, at least, the case with all those whose finer sensibilities have not been blunted, or, more properly speaking, have been rightly cultivated.
The cane reposed for the day; and Mr. Phippen drank his glass of camphor julep with a mind at ease on the twin subjects of Miss Sturch's sensibilities and Master Bob's screams.
A woman of finer sensibilities would have instantly left the room.
In the excited state of his sensibilities at that moment the action stung him to the quick.
It trembled through her nerves; it entwined itself mysteriously with the finest sensibilities in her nature; it softly opened her heart to a first vague surmising of the devotion that she had inspired in him.
It was she who called forth the shyer sensibilities of his nature, and taught an originally harsh and austere imagination to surround itself with fancy and feeling, as the rock fringes itself with a sun-spray of ferns.
If you cannot do that, it is of no use to keep stringing rhymes together, jingling sensibilities against each other, and name yourself a Poet; there is no hope for you.
Indulgence measures benefactions, not by the needs and capacities of the receiver, but by the sensibilities and emotions of the giver.
Cut off from the springs of inspiration, our lives stagnate, our souls shrivel, our sensibilities wither.
But Miss Le Pettit, shocked in all her sensibilities by this vulgar scene, turned away.
Noah, innocently enough, I do firmly believe, had seriously wounded all those nice sensibilities which are naturally dependent on such an improved condition of society.
Besides, he knew little of Dorothea's sensations, and had not reflected that on such an occasion as the present they were comparable in strength to his own sensibilities about Carp's criticisms.
But through certain sensibilities Dorothea was as quick as he, and seeing her face change, he added, immediately, "But it is quite true that the best minds have been sometimes overstrained in working out their ideas.
His anxieties continually glanced towards Lydgate, and his remembrance of what had taken place between them the morning before was accompanied with sensibilities which had not been roused at all during the actual scene.
A refreshing bath changes the morbid sensibilities to a more healthful state by the reaction of the nervous system.
If a peppermint lozenge is taken into the mouth, it strongly excites the general sensibilities of taste, and the power of distinguishing between special flavors is lost for a few moments.
All this had an air of blasphemy that shocked the sensibilities of foreigners, and compelled them to stand aloof or to support the Manchus.
Their sensibilities are divergent; everything in each shocks the other; even their anatomical conformation, even the language of their gestures; all is foreign.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sensibilities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: affection; feeling; sensibility; sentiment; sympathy
