Development emphasizes the need of intimate and extensive personal acquaintance with a small number of typical situations with a view to mastering the way of dealing with the problems of experience, not the piling up of information.
There are no situations of the children’s experience into which the facts and principles enter as a matter of course.
The one possibly most significant from the point of view of education is the incredible increase in the number of facts that must be part of the mental furniture of any one who meets even the ordinarysituations of life successfully.
The emphasis falls on the larger freedom of using and testing senses and judgment insituations typical of life.
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In spite of this, however, the conception of the poem is dramatic; and certain vivid situations have been created.
Many times he had been in fearful situations in the face of charging lions and elephants, and once he had been bowled over and carried some distance by a lion, but on none of these occasions had fear demoralized him.
It led him intosituations that bordered upon the fantastic, it made him ridiculous, it came near to making him sublime.
These institutions do not differ essentially from those of a private nature in similar situations in other parts of the United States, where common schools are not established by law.
They are invited to these situations by the abundance of small fish, worms, and other marine animals of the crustaceous and testaceous kinds, on which they feed.
Eighth Week, Third Day There are many situations in life which naturally throw the pall of dread over man's soul.
They see that faith in God gives the outlook on life which makes the hopeful facing of adverse situations reasonable and which supplies power to make it possible.
His verse is never mean, but it sometimes comes perilously near to prose, and in dealing with passionate situations it lacks fire and directness.
A third possibility in certainsituations is the diversion of wastes out of a stream's drainage entirely.
Nor is it possible to wish out of existence situations already serious.
Zoning, for example, is an indispensable tool for implementing planning, but too weak for some metropolitan situations and often too inflexible to meet certain needs.
Physically and culturally, there is very little similarity between the two communities, but their flood situations and the potential effects of the proposed protective structures have a certain kinship.
Its heroine's name was Ambulinia, and its flowery, half-meaningless periods and impossible situationsdelighted Clemens beyond measure.
His note-book began to be filled with memoranda of situations and possibilities for the tale he had in mind.
The old device of changelings in the cradle (later used in Pudd'nhead Wilson) presented itself to him, but it could not provide the situations he had in mind.
He found Clemens with some ideas of the plan jotted down: certain effects andsituations which seemed to him amusing, but there was no general scheme of action.
It is a story that long made dwellers in solitary situations shiver with apprehension, especially if they owned relatives connected in any way with the hated customs officers.
THERE are many vexatious accidents and uneasy situations which raise little compassion for the sufferer, and which no man but those whom they immediately distress can regard with seriousness.
In such situations the coal has lost nearly all its volatile matter, and in composition and in certain instances, as in western Colorado, in physical character as well, is essentially an anthracite.
The business of the playwright is selection and rejection, and usually the dramatic situations revealed have been culled from very many lives over a long course of years.
Dramas are made up of incidents that have happened to somebody sometime, but in no instance that I ever heard of have all the situations pictured in a play happened to the persons who played the parts.
It requires a more cultivated fancy to recognise incidents, situations and characters suited for art in actual experience, than to appreciate the conventional types of older dramatists.
Greek poetry strengthens the will or purifies the heart indirectly, by its truthful representation of the tragic situations in human life; Roman poetry appeals directly to the manlier instincts and more magnanimous impulses of our nature.
To be rightly appreciated, his poems must be read with immediate reference to the circumstances and situations which gave rise to them.
This is the little grasshopper which rises before our footsteps in swarms on a hot summer's day; it is one of the last insects to leave us in the autumn, being frequently found in warm situations on fine days in the middle of winter.
Extremely abundant in all damp situations from September till May, being one of the last insects to disappear in the autumn.
This fine beetle is very common in most wooded situations in the Nelson district; it may be at once distinguished from the numerous other closely allied species by the beautiful metallic coppery tints that adorn its thorax and elytra.
Lepidoptera, and in fact all insects, are attracted by light, and in some situations the collector will find that he may frequently obtain good species by merely opening his sitting-room window and waiting for the insects to arrive.
Its larva (2a) may be found in the same situations as the imago, and often assembles in similar groups.
Another fine species, occurring in similar situations to the last, but not quite so commonly.
The perfect insect appears in a few weeks' time, when it may be taken in similar situations to C.
It is generally found in the large yellow fungi, so abundant in wet situationsduring the late autumn and winter months.
A curious species, occurring occasionally in damp situations in the forest where it may be noticed leisurely walking over the leaves of various shrubs.
This fine species occurs abundantly in all damp situations throughout the summer.
A most abundant species occurring in most damp situations throughout the year.
This magnificent insect occurs in all swampy situations during January and February, when it may be seen dashing about with amazing rapidity intent on catching {104}the various flies which constitute its food.
While he possesses a certain airy playfulness, he fails in rich broad humor utterly, and situationsof comedy are by no means so well handled as the more serious scenes.
The same music was set to a poem founded on the first crusade, all the most effective situations being dramatically utilized for the Christian legend.
It is a drama in the force of its situations and in the poetry and dignity of its language; but its men and women are not men and women of a play.
At last, by a mere accident, his eye fell upon the column of situations offered and wanted, and, with a sour smile, he began to read the advertisements.
He was very soon struck by the balance of numbers in favour of the unemployed, and by the severe manner in which those who offered situations spoke of thorough knowledge and of certificates of service.
References to other situations involving borders or frontiers may also be included, such as resource disputes, geopolitical questions, or irredentist issues.
International disputes: This category includes a wide variety of situations that range from traditional bilateral boundary disputes to unilateral claims of one sort or another.
Sally, whose Indian name was Wyanjoy, a woman much esteemed by all that knew her, for her prudent and good behaviour in some very trying situations of life.
And so the sufferings of the persons who are in these situations do not touch us much.
It is on these unnatural and improbable and, above all, profoundly immoral situations that Pierre et Jean and Fort comme la Mort are constructed.
Madame D'Arblay's notes (in her Diary) of the conversation and mode of life at Streatham are full and spirited, and exhibit Johnson in moods and situations in which he was seldom seen by Boswell.
For there are many ways in which peace may be possessed; as many ways as there are disquieting situations in man's life.
No doubt situations like this were common in the church at Thessalonica.
The signs are called by different names, and, with regard to their situations and corresponding seasons and months, they stand in the following order: Northern Signs; so denominated as being north of the Equator.
As all these parts subservient to motion are inert in themselves, that animals may enjoy the means of changing their situations and attitudes, a power must be applied to the bones for this purpose, which is supplied by muscular action.
It is a native of Africa, India, the largest Indian Islands, and South America, where it chiefly resides in the most retired situations in woods and marshy retreats.
Now if the sun's rays themselves conveyed all the heat we find on the earth, it would of course be hottest in situations similar to the tops of mountains, where their course is least interrupted.
In all lunar eclipses, the shadow of the earth falling upon the moon is always circular; and a body can be no other than a globe, which in all situations casts a circular shadow.
Wood coal, or brown coal, is found in low situations and appears to have been formed of heaps of trees buried by inundations under beds of clay, sand, or gravel.
Other creatures may be said to be confined to a certain district, but the curiosity of man is to lead him over the whole world, and frequently place him in situations where only one kind of food is attainable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "situations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
