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Example sentences for "strong sense"

  • It may seem strange to some, that we should assign a place, among the poetical claims of Cowper, to his strong sense.

  • He had a strong sense of the responsibility of an editor, and especially of the editor of a Review of unsigned articles.

  • He delighted in a quiet country life and had a strong sense of natural beauty.

  • He wrote nothing autobiographical, and he had a strong sense of the chasm that should separate private from public life.

  • I acted under a strong sense of individual duty without a thought of leadership; nevertheless it made me again leader whether I would or no.

  • Indeed it is most difficult, if not impossible, to force ourselves to do wrong against a strong sense of right.

  • A strong sense of something's being "all right" means a strong sense of willingness that it should be just as it is.

  • It is difficult to read this disingenuous farrago of insinuation even now without a strong sense of moral contempt.

  • Yet there was "no kind of temper in the case," and "only a strong sense of amusement.

  • He was under a strong sense of obligation, which he felt bound to fulfil.

  • He once said himself, in reference to his criticism of Froude, "In truth there is no kind of temper in the case, but a strong sense of amusement in bowling down one thing after another.

  • At the same time he felt it impossible to prevent himself from experiencing a strong sense of anxiety, or perhaps we should say, a feeling of involuntary pain, which lay like a dead weight upon his heart and spirits.

  • Humanity is very well in its place; but a strong sense of duty is worth a thousand of it.

  • The mate noticed, with a strong sense of his own unworthiness, that the two ladies seemed thoroughly engrossed in each other's company, and oblivious to all else.

  • He was also well-principled, had a strong sense of discipline and duty, was prepared in politics firmly to uphold as right whatever was proposed by his own party, and to reject as wrong whatever was proposed by the other.

  • He had a strong sense of the grievous losses they suffered by their disunion from the Church.

  • He had, moreover, a strong sense of honor and duty.

  • He was even repelled by her, but he had a strong sense of his duty towards her, and he was full of pity for her.

  • Gladys was pale herself, and had a strong sense of the sadness of the occasion, still she had a feeling of importance.

  • Partly these rest on the analogy between physical defect and moral evil; but partly, as here, they result from a strong sense of association between human deeds and their effects or circumstances.

  • Moreover, the prophet, like Jeremiah before him, has a strong sense of sin as a tendency in human life, a power which is ineradicable save by the mingled severity and goodness of God.

  • He was evidently a man of profoundly ethical habits of thought, stern and uncompromising in his judgments, both on himself and other men, and gifted with a strong sense of human responsibility.

  • Their own strength lay in solidity and gravity of character, in a strong sense of national and personal discipline, in the gift of law-making and law-obeying.

  • But, being a typical Roman, Silius has a strong sense of justice; moreover he values public opinion as well as his own.

  • To the exclusion of all else, this one centered in a team of fractious mules, a fly that must bite soon and a strong sense of restlessness.

  • Emma felt a leaping excitement which immediately conflicted with a strong sense of duty.

  • The patrols always stopped at Snedeker's, but they were always commanded by some non-commissioned officer with a strong sense of duty and a stronger realization of what would happen if he was in any way derelict in that duty.

  • My opponents have a strong sense of what they call liberty--which means that every one should have a vote, and that every one should register it in their favour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after mass; broad smile; first performance; national religion; shall present; strong army; strong beer; strong desire; strong effort; strong enough; strong feeling; strong gale; strong garrison; strong hand; strong impulse; strong medicine; strong odor; strong point; strong proof; strong resemblance; strong solution; strong tower; strong waters; strongly fortified; strongly intrenched; swept away