Of all the arts poetry is the most strikingly rational and articulate.
Such a transformation is strikinglyevident in those sensitive recorders of human ideals, the Fine Arts.
This mental attitude came out strikingly one day when we had a funeral-- always a feast to the villagers; that is to say, an emotional feast; and on this occasion the circumstances made the ceremony a peculiarly impressive one.
Ray, "can more strikingly indicate the change that has occurred since that time in respect to the means of managing the insane, than the fact that for two or three months the King was frequently subjected to mechanical restraint.
If this pleasant illusion is dispelled by the course of events in Ireland, how much more strikingly must it be so in England?
His features were neitherstrikingly handsome nor strikingly ugly; they were ordinary.
Perhaps this defect of thought, this lack of personality towards facts, is most strikingly perceived in the slowness with which most primary ideas of the form and motion of the earth made their way among men.
Now a strikingly similar contrast obtains as between George Eliot and Charles Dickens.
In most of the pictures the whole mind and character were brought out on the countenance and concentrated into a single look; so that, to speak paradoxically, the originals hardly resembled themselves so strikingly as the portraits did.
The force of habit in government is most strikingly illustrated by the example of Connecticut.
These remarks, which are heard every day, illustrate most strikingly the force of habit and tradition.
The culmination of art in music is strikingly shown in the subjoined article from the pen of that great authority, Mr. H.
It is only natural that her biographer should regard her as a strikingly complex and exceptional being.
E] Mary Stuart--"the soft Medusa" is an expression strikingly applied to her in her own day.
Aesculus (Pavia) parviflora, blooming in July when flowering shrubs are rare, is easily grown and strikingly handsome, and yet how rarely seen!
Although not so strikingly beautiful as the Heaths previously mentioned, E.
In this case, however, although the occasion of the entertainment was similar, the company was strikingly dissimilar.
And when his gorge rose and his inwards revolted, the hours became a series of ignoble misadventures and petty disgraces strikingly lacking in privacy.
These two throats belonged respectively to Samuel Williams and Maurice Levy, who were standing in a strikingly Rosencrantz-and-Guildenstern attitude.
Taciturnity is seldom more strikingly out of place than under such circumstances, and the penalties imposed took account not only of Penrod's tardiness but of his supposititious defiance of authority in declining to speak.
The features were regular and strikingly handsome, the skin a clear olive, the hair dark and wavy.
The precept follows strikingly on the predictions of excommunication and hatred.
In one aspect, these are set forth most strikingly by the parable in which the thing lost bears the smallest proportion to the thing still retained.
Footnote 129: I have heard the poet's fellow-traveller describe this remarkable instance of his coolness and courage even still morestrikingly than it is here stated by himself.
In the purely literary type this last characteristic is not so strikingly prominent, though it appears rather under the surface.
Such an attitude in one whose tenderest associations were all in some sense German is strikingly indicative of an unbiased, logical mind.
At the hazard of wearing this point threadbare, I will relate an anecdote which seems too strikingly in point to be omitted.
The same spirit of candid self-appraisal was strikinglymanifested during the McCormick reaper suit, in which Lincoln, with other lawyers, had been retained for the defense.
In the higher stages of civilization, the whole relation is wont to be resolved more and more into freedom of competition; and this process is wont to take place earliest and most strikingly in the cities.
Even language, which is the most general and most accurate expression of the intellectual genius of a people, presents a strikingly analogous contrast in mountainous and coast countries.
There are hardships often attending the highly developed division of labor, the dark and bright sides of which are most strikingly observable only in large cities.
Her daughter was strikingly beautiful and accomplished.
Keeping himself in the shadow, and looking at her in the bright light of the drawing-room, Sinclair thought that rarely, if ever, had he seen a more strikingly beautiful woman.
Picturesqueness is not a usual attribute of mud villages, but the view from every point of Chiraz, the village on the lofty cliffs on the other side of the stream, is strikingly so.
Windows to the streets are common, and the oriel windows, with their warm brown lattices projecting over the roadways at irregular heights, are strikingly picturesque.
