This latter can be avoided only by leaving all to naturalism and spontaneity at first, and feeding the soul only according to its appetites and stage of growth.
Education must be addressed to freedom, which recognizes only self-made law, and spontaneity of opinion and conduct is manifested, often in extravagant and grotesque forms.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
Individual spontaneity is thus the root of economic good; and the real justification of the state is the protection it affords to this impulse.
And this is the only drawback to the impression of absolute spontaneity which his style produces.
The spontaneityof Lowell's nature is delightfully disclosed in his personal letters.
We find in the letters of this period little of the freshness and spontaneity that lent such a charm to the letters of Mme.
Spontaneity is not apt to be discriminating, and the emotions are not safe guides to worldly distinction.
They, too, ask for a certain spontaneity and like to find a real person whom they can understand.
Children like to find real people, not anxiously careful to improve them, but able to take life with a certain spontaneity as they like to take it themselves.
But in guiding children along this difficult way it is not wise to call direct attention to it, lest their inexperience and sensitiveness should turn to scrupulosity and their spontaneity be paralysed.
Each is based on the spontaneity of thought--on the spontaneity of synthetic interpretation on the one hand, of discrimination and comparison on the other.
Idea of freedom does not by any means constitute the entire content of the psychological concept of that name, which is mainly empirical, but only that of absolute spontaneity of action.
A spontaneity of synthesis corresponds to their receptivity: either of apprehension as sensations or of reproduction as images (Einbildungen) or of recognition as concepts.
But if this manifold is to be known, the spontaneity of our thinking requires that it be gone through in a certain way, taken up, and connected.
The spontaneity of our thought requires that this manifold [of pure a priori intuition] should be run through in a certain manner, taken up, and connected, in order that a knowledge may be formed out of it.
It has nothing to do with spontaneity or understanding, and therefore cannot be acquired by reflection upon any activity of the mind.
Others, more sanguine, believe that spontaneity has done all it can, and that its place is in the future to be worthily filled by a wide eclecticism.
But as this should be voluntary self-sacrifice, education must train the child equally in the two directions ofspontaneity and obedience.
Again, the law of conformity under one level becomes tyranny to the individual when it is allied to a weakness already holding sway and to natural obstacles, and when it comes to extinguish the last spark of spontaneity and of originality.
This being pure spontaneity is even elevated above the understanding.
They win upon us by those intonations of voice which touch the heart, and fill the eye with tender tears; by those sudden and graceful impulses which recall the spontaneity and beautiful timidity of the gazelle.
Neither can it be said that his strength lies in spontaneity of musical thought or freedom of thematic treatment.
But like most satellites, he was not possessed of sufficient spontaneity to acquire wide-spread or enduring recognition.
The radiance of this beautiful young girl, the charm of her musical voice, and the evident spontaneity of the action, were magical.
The complete spontaneity of her action, and the earnestness of her conduct, immediately softened his rage.
They are whipped, dispirited and undone, and spontaneity dies a-borning.
In the presence of such a towering personality freedom dies, spontaneity droops, and thought slinks away into a corner.
Lavinia Dorman, who readily consented to do as she asked, says that Sylvia is brave and heartbroken at the same time, that all her girlish spontaneity has gone, and she is like a statue.
No poet, certainly no poet of merit, seems to have written with such absolute spontaneity and want of premeditation as Wither.
In Sir Joshua Reynolds's day they were ranked with Raphael, but at the present time criticism places them where they belong--painters of the Decadence with little originality or spontaneity in their art, though much technical skill.
All spontaneity seemed to have passed out of it, it was repetition of repetition by poor workmen, and the simplicity and purity of the technic were corrupted by foreign influences.
Surely it is not allowable to say that spontaneity of motion is credible in itself, but not credible if supposed to take place in any determinate direction.
But the question which may be considered as already solved is the non-spontaneity of these infectious microbes.
An observer witnessing such deaths without apparent cause, and ignorant of this strange dependency, would no doubt be tempted to believe in the spontaneity of the disease.
Protestant subjectivity becomes spontaneity and liberty, just as necessarily as Catholic objectivity becomes supernaturalism and clerical tyranny.
His tendency to pomposity is not redeemed by the naïveté and spontaneity of his masters.
Johnson was never tired of praising the extraordinary readiness andspontaneity of Burke's conversation.
Whatever the cause, this spontaneity and freshness run through all the mass of short and similar work which he wrote down.
In this delightful little song the spontaneity and freshness which saved his work, its vigour and its clarity are best preserved.
Then there's Eleanor Faversham--but if I begin to draw up a programme I shall lose that spontaneityof effort which, I take it, is one of the chief charms of dealing unto oneself a happy lot and portion.
Dale certainly owed his methodical habits to his mechanical training, but whence he derived and how he maintained his exuberance and spontaneity has often puzzled me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spontaneity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
