These reports, however, present a condition of affairs altogether at variance with the information on which we had to act.
You say you envy me certain qualities; but you forget how those qualities are at variance with an Art whose beauties are geometrical and whose perfection is mathematical.
Thus translated, the Master's saying is grotesquely at variance with the whole trend of his conduct and the essential spirit of his teaching.
Pure landscape-painting into which no light or shade enters, pure portrait-painting into which no expression enters, are phrases less at variance with sound criticism than pure comedy into which no moral enters.
In the East, the Greek Church, which is at variance on points of faith with all the Western Churches, has an equal claim to this succession.
No codex of age or authority which displayed a reading at variance with the inspired Latin version might be cited.
In the present state of knowledge it could not be necessary, even if we had not already treated so fully of the question, to point out how widely this supposition is at variance with the truth.
Such a notion, already too narrow in the science of life, would be completely at variance with the still more complex nature of sociological speculations.
Morga makes a statement somewhat at variancewith this (see VOL.
Sidenote: Variance betwixt the citizens of London and the constable of the towre.
Sidenote: Variance betwixt the king and the earle of Penbroke.
Sidenote: Variance betwixt the earle of Penbroke and others.
Sidenote: Variance and debat betwixt the stud[=e]ts of Oxford.
A pretty idea, but absolutely at variance with the text.
Throughout the performance the spectators' eyes are at variance with the spoken words.
Yet no actor should defend a conception of character which is shown to be at variance with the author's words.
You see, Ringan Gilhaize," said the minister, "how it fares with them in this world whose principles are at variance with the pretensions of man.
For some time there had been a great variance between the King and Queen.
He was a young man of big stature, with broad, restless shoulders that seemed to chafe under the bondage of a tunic, and he had a long, loose-limbed stride oddly at variance with the usual conception of military bearing.
Near them, two girls, fresh of face, tittered and posed, challenging the eyes of every man who entered, with a brazen immodesty strangely at variance with their appearance of decent breeding.
She said meekly one day that it might be her penalty to see them at variance in her own lifetime, but over her grave perhaps they would be reconciled, and her prayers be answered.
He was utterly at variance with taste, and openly broached unworthy sentiments and opinions, and his kindness and his displeasure were equally irksome.
As we have already said, the Duchess was at open variance with her oldest daughter Henrietta, the Countess of Godolphin, to whom she was never reconciled.
Thus the political opinions of the Queen came gradually to be at variance with those advanced by her favorite, whose daughters were married to great Whig nobles, and whose husband was bent on continuing the war against Louis XIV.
The fact therefore remains, that the ordinary exposition of the parable, in this part of its progress, is palpably at variance with the structure of the parable itself, and the facts on which it is founded.
What is really wanted is an individual consistency, and a brightness of imagery which shall be the poet's own by reason of his own personal attachment, and not simply the variance of the many-in-one poetry of the day.
Such movements would have been at variance with the well known military policy of the Indians.
But this uncertainty must more essentially betide every student, however lowly, in the school I have called the Intellectual, which must ever be more or less at variance with the popular canons.
Even those whose political views were at variance with its teaching were glad to be able to purchase a sheet whose literary excellence elicited their surprise and admiration.
Her vehemence, so much at variancewith her usual manner, made Anstice uneasy about her.
Regard for his marriage vows, love for his children, and fear of death at the hands of Creon--all are at variance and must be faced.
There is no circle in Rome more free from self-seeking on the part of its members, or more at variancewith such a feeling.
The objections already stated apply to the whole class; and, although probably each illustration used by the theistic advocate is capable of an elucidation entirely at variance with his argument, the main features of objection are the same.
It is first to be remembered that in every one of his English or French drawings, Turner's mind was, in two great instincts, at variance with itself.
And they discussed matters in that cozy tone of confidential intercourse which is so directly at variance with the tones used by men when they ordinarily talk of business.
She had always been at variance with Mrs Winterfield, being a woman who loved cards and supper parties, and who had throughout her life stabled her horses in stalls very different to those used by the lady of Perivale.
