Indifference of Manner exhibits a disregard for the comfort and pleasure of those around us, which, though not so obtrusive as rudeness, shows an egotism of disposition incompatible with brotherly love.
If a man devote himself actively to the reform of some special vice, while he at the same time shows himself indifferent to other vices in himself or in his neighbors, it is evident that his virtue is only one of seeming.
Conversation is the outbirth of our thoughts and affections, and it shows their quality in the most direct manner possible.
This is a new system of military Discipline truly; and shows that my Good friend Byrd is either made the Cats Foot of himself, or he little knows me, if he imagines that Sixty scoundrels are to direct me in my measures.
Among other things this map shows clearly how much wider were the frontiers of the southern than those of the northern colonies.
The very fact that the Indian path was not very much shorter than the first state road shows that it was distinctively a utilitarian course.
From one point the letter does Washington no credit, though it shows plainly that there was a bitter factional fight and that he felt strongly the righteousness of the Virginian side of the question, for which he is not to be blamed.
Washington's list of the vestrymen shows that his friend was elected by two hundred and eighty-two votes, while he himself received but fifty-one votes.
The subscription paper, still in existence, shows that L1,078 "in money or otherwise" was subscribed for the purpose.
The tower is the only part of the building which shows the Renaissance influence.
The story of Providence during the Revolution shows that the members were keenly alive to their opportunities.
On March 11 Washington's account bookshows that the expenses of the trip were L1.
A war-time pictureshows something of the havoc wrought by the soldiers.
He shows his worst side at once, but you would discover new and good traits hin him every day.
The fact that I stumbled into that encyclopaedia, which gave you the laugh against me, shows how helpless I am.
But with mock gravity she answered him: "Your rather sentimental figure of speech, Mr. Van Berg, shows where your error lies.
It's not what we do, but what we attempt, that shows our spirit.
We have debased the name, and its debasement shows the debasement of the race.
I have seen temple shows galore, so I shall lose nothing.
Once inside the gate were paved walks bordered by ancient cedar trees, hardly in keeping with the booths and shows which occupied the grounds.
You know the river Sumida's east bank shows ranks of cherry trees which will exhibit finely from the river.
I think the feast of the Cherry Blossoms will be the next important one, but there are little shows all the time, small temple festivals rather like a fair, such as one sees in Europe in the small towns.
It has been practically inactive since 1707, yet there is a spot where it still shows indications of inward fires which, it is safe to declare, may break out some day.
For instance, should a proscribed innkeeper have a ball or dance in his house, the Chore emissaries will be there to see whether any student shows himself at it.
Now one dissolves itself on account of the fewness of its members; and now a new one shows itself.
The gallant ship is going, The strong east wind is blowing, The far-off fading strand Shows no longer, Yet glows stronger Love unto my native land.
This procedure of fixing the position of an event-particle shows that the aggregate of event-particles forms a four-dimensional manifold.
But the example of the mirror shows us that the situation may be one of the passive conditioning events.
This fact, that every event is known as possessing the quality of exclusion, shows that exclusion is as positive a relation as inclusion.
This shows that the active conditions for the conveyance of a group of subconscious sense-objects by a dominating sense-object are to be found in the percipient event.
The work shows more evidence of having been attentively read, even to the end of the third volume, than any in the library.
John Buncle shows the same symptoms of inordinate satisfaction in bread and butter.
This slender strawshows significantly the current of public opinion in Virginia at that time.
Every other year we expect a full crop of nuts, and close observation shows that the red-heads come to the North in much larger numbers and stay much later on these years of plenty than on the years of scanty crops.
Usually it shows much clear black and white, with dashes of scarlet or yellow about the head.
It shows us what we ought to expect under certain imaginary conditions.
The whole structure shows that the bird was intended "to lean on his tail.
We conclude that a wide-spread, equally divided, nipping foot would be the best device possible for the woodpecker's way of living, and we find by examination that every woodpecker shows this type of foot.
It is known that the Lewis's woodpecker occasionally shows signs of a hoarding instinct.
This simple illustration shows why the woodpecker's foot reaches as far backward as forward.
The fact that he takes sweet acorns, and those only, shows that it is the meat of the nut that he wants.
The examination of the oath shows that they promised no such thing.
But Jack had turned away, with that comical twist of his mouth which shows him secretly diverted.
That shows how far you are from perfection, Sister.
And my Lady shows you much more favour than she does me: only to-day you have been in her rooms twice!
All the laughter that was amongst us we made ourselves; and all the shows were when Jack chose to tumble somersaults, or Maud twisted some cold lace round her head, and said, "Now I am Queen Isabel.
Often, it may be noted by the way, the Short-story fulfills the three false unities of the French classic drama: it shows one action in one place on one day.
The restoration shows it as dome-shaped, nearly fourteen feet long, thirty-three feet in horizontal circumference, and twenty feet in girth in a vertical direction.
This naturally casts an ineffaceable stigma upon the respectable square where the Laphams have hitherto resided, and shows that between the two ladies there is a great gulf fixed.
This shows that he was not speaking of his translation of Lobo, as Mr. Croker maintains in a note on this passage.
The following note to one of his Southwell friends, announcing a second triumph of the cause, shows how sanguinely and, as it turned out, erroneously, he calculated on the results.
It contains, as will be seen, his religious creed at that period, and shows how early the struggle between natural piety and doubt began in his mind.
Sometimes, however, he shows a disposition to stand by his original decisions.
I win from d' other day shows up, I'll make a monkey of him ag'in.
This shows concloosive that Short Creek Dave is licensed from Above to pray any gait for whoever he deems meet, an' I'm mighty pleased it occurs.
Bridgy shows up just in time to straighten out d' game for d' McGuires at that.
It's a case of money to boin an' I was gettin' me matches ready before even Mike shows up.
Bend, I'm put in mind about Danny d' Face, who shows up from Sing Sing to-day.
Besides, Faye's comet, in four revolutions of seven years each, showsno sign of retardation.
But the spectroscope, seeing not merely form but substance also, shows that some of them are not stars in any sense, but masses of glowing gas.
But the eternal ice keeps us from perceiving the breadth [Page 236] of the earth, andshows the discriminating wisdom of the question.
But the spectroscope shows another state of things: it reveals in some of these comets an incandescent gas--usually some of the combinations of carbon.
The sun, as it lies exactly along the line of the company, with only the right hands and knees in full light, shows my part of the line pushed wholly forward out of the shadow, and the Captain looking at us in disgust.
I wish you could see the lieutenant on parade, in his best clothes, which somehow are more becoming to him than the undress uniform, in which Kirby shows best.
I know he thinks that; it merely showsthat he can't work for popularity.
The captain I am sure we know already, a worker, a driver, but one who shows us that he understands our mistakes by the very keenness of his irony.
But it shows that I am still a greenhorn if I will put away my gun with anything in it, even though I had supposed it to contain but an empty shell.
So that if an officer has properly trained his men, and if in addition he shows good judgment, then he can feel that he is advancing in his profession.
Here the influence of Claude Debussy shows itself; the chords of the ninth proceed by the same chromatic semitones that one finds in the Chansons de Bilitis.
The older of the two, a man in the fifties, shows the ease of an experienced hand by taking out a large plug of tobacco and gnawing off a substantial chew.
Moreover, the instrumentation shows the same boldness, for the double theme is first given to three solo violins, and they are muted in a novel and effective manner by stopping their F holes.
If the beer is inspected and guaranteed in Germany, why shouldn't the shows be inspected and guaranteed in Paris?
For every wintershows them free from the east wind; more perfectly than their elders, they enclose the climate of life.
But every winter shows us how human they are, and how they are little pilgrims and visitants among the things that look like their kin.
The refusal of mortgage does not please me; but surely our offer shows some confidence in the goodness of my title.
The first of these facts is a contribution to the laws of language in general; the second shows that a great amount of apparent difference may be exhibited on the surface of a language which disappears as the analysis proceeds.
It shows how both may be evolved from monosyllabic tongues like the Chinese or Siamese.
This showsthat their power to resist disease is slight.
It is hard to find one of these mothers who shows what we may call intelligent affection or intelligent care of her young.
With reference to selection by the women, Darwin shows that among savages they have much more to say in their marriages than is usually supposed.
The movement of the duck when walking shows what happens when the points of support are far apart.
A study of the mechanism of walking shows why this has happened.
There is one remarkable phenomenon, spoken of by various writers as telegony, which has an important bearing on the subject of the transmission of acquired characters, and shows the action of prenatal influence in an unexpected form.
This irreverent familiarity shows itself in other ways, after the manner of the ancient pagans, who took strange liberties with their gods.
The condition of the Italian people showsconclusively that the predominating study of "the beautiful" has a most corrupting and enfeebling effect.
For Teanum, called Sidicinum,[1863] which lies next in order, shows by its name that it belongs to the nation of the Sidicini.
Still it is pretty well distinguished by its three other sides, which are formed by three nearly straight lines, and also by its name, which shows it to be only one nation.
Further, in respect to the winds and climates, Homer shows the wide extent of his geographical knowledge, for in his topographical descriptions he not unfrequently informs us of both these matters.
Gosselin shows that we ought to read 500 stadia in this place.
A note in the French translation shows that the inhabitants of Rhegium did not participate in the rights of Roman citizens till about 90 years before the Christian era.
It is in such instances as the following that the mediocrity of his genius shows itself.
But when he urges his geometrical objections not against any real statement of Eratosthenes, but merely against imaginary hypotheses of his own creation, he shows too plainly the contradictory bent of his mind.
Posidonius shows that the circumference is 4400 stadia, but in the Chorography the distances are declared to exceed the above numbers, being severally reckoned in miles.
The engraving in Pallas shows it to be, as the name implies, a table mountain, now Tchadir-Dagh, or Tent Mountain.
Ephorus likewise shows us the opinion of the ancients respecting Ethiopia, in his Treatise on Europe.
But Mazochi justifies the distinction between the Chones and the Œnotri, and shows cause to doubt that the Œnotri were of Greek origin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
