Still, however, the shallowness of their coast and the want of smaller vessels on our part has permitted some cruisers to escape unobserved, and to one of these an American vessel unfortunately fell prey.
And watching this matrimonial by-play McTaggart felt a growing scorn for the shallowness of the social life in which he found himself involved.
For months past he had postponed a thorough survey of his liabilities, with the shallowness of his character, preferring to ignore the worst.
Their work had the dash as well as the shallowness of an ascendant and idle class, and in Croker is touched everywhere with beauty—a gentle Arcadian beauty.
We may depend upon it that very much of the shallowness of our work is the fruit of the shallowness of the workman.
The Kabbala is a daughter of embarrassment; its system was the way of escape from the dilemma between the simple, anthropomorphic interpretation of the Bible and the shallowness of the Maimunist philosophy.
It is certain that the Kabbala was intended as a counterpoise to the growing shallownessof the Maimunists' philosophy.
The shallowness of a waternixie's soul may have a charm until she becomes didactic.
Lydgate, with the usual shallowness of a young bachelor, wondered that Mr. Farebrother had not taught them better.
Several officers went up the Sedger in a yawl till they were stopped by the shallowness of the water.
An amusing illustration of the shallowness of aboriginal grief where it seems "truly touching" may be found in an article by the Rev.
Goya (who is as much to blame for it as either Courbet or Titian) would have considered its shallowness an inexcusable vulgarity.
His shallowness is at once apparent when we compare his Maitresse or his illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's tales with etchings like Donde Va Mama or Buen Viaje.
Since Pedagogics is capable of no such exact definitions of its principle and no such logical deduction as other sciences, the treatises written upon it abound more in shallowness than any other literature.
The shallowness of the sea between Bahrein and the mainland has contributed considerably to the geographical and mercantile importance of the Bahrein.
Surely I cannot be the only reader to whom the impertinence of this is as offensive, as itsshallowness is ridiculous!
The bluster about unprepossession proceeds from shallownessand dishonesty.
In this essay he ruthlessly exposed the musicalshallowness of Rossini and Meyerbeer.
And this is not because of theshallowness of the river.
Owing to the shallowness of the river, the boat was, during the first part of the voyage, always tied up for the night at the first tree or stump that might be found on the bank at sunset.
There is no surer indication of shallowness than the desire to read only about pleasant subjects and characters and events.
The progress was at first slow, owing to the shallowness of the water, which often did not much exceed five feet, for a vessel of more than six hundred tons burden!
Taking with him the Larne and Hyacinth, with the Enterprise steamer and the Louisa cutter, he sailed boldly up towards the Barrier, and ran in as close as the shallowness of the water would permit.
It made her frame quiver; and her length and shallowness rendered her the more liable to suffer injury from a similar blow.
But they were not able to go up more than eight or nine miles further; for they were stopped by the increasing shallowness of the water at the entrance of a large lagoon.
However, on she went, nothing daunted either by mud, sand, or water, or even by theshallowness of the river.
In this the shallowness of her comprehension and thinking is well shown, and it seems here again perhaps justifiable to formulate the main defect as one of attention, which prevents completion of a complicated process of comprehension.
It is true that the beginner of a dynasty generally does so; and that when monarchies are in their prime, pretence and shallowness do not thrive and prosper and get power, as they do in Republics.
As, during the time of absence, she had slighted his urgent entreaties for a daily letter, so too, during the sojourn at Montebello, she revealed the shallowness and frivolity of her being.
Apart from his brilliant conversations, his private life has few features of abiding interest, perhaps because he early tired of the shallowness of Josephine and the Corsican angularity of his brothers and sisters.
That depends very much on the depth or shallowness of its source, Sir," replied the Professor.
As the yacht arrived at its destination and dropped anchor at some distance from the pier, owing to the shallownessof the tide at that hour of the day, The Islands presented a fair aspect in the dancing beams of the summer sunlight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shallowness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
