In other words, the artist's aim is not to reproduce the facts which make up the mass of our ordinary and undigested life, but to substitute for the dishevelled commonplace the "choiceness" of an ordered interpretation. ❋ Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (N/A)
There are certain forms of meditation such as Zen shinkantaza, Krishanmurti's choiceness awareness, and various advaita non-techniques that are essentially just sitting there without doing anything on purpose. ❋ Michael Taft (2011)
If you insist, before anything else, upon “the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses”—if these are more important to you than “the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment”—then you stay home with fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)
His 2002 vote against the Induced Infant Liability Act which would allow doctors to administer aid to infants born alive after a failed abortion should answer any question one might have about Obama's pro-choiceness. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
He was a sort of catholic Manfred, and unstained by crime, carrying his choiceness into his faith, melting the snows by the fires of a sealed volcano, holding converse with a star seen by himself alone! ❋ Unknown (2007)
This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter — more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For many days the gardener had present pots of Chrysanthemums of great choiceness, so that the walks of the Compound and the steps leading to Miss Powers 'study were of a two times border; inside part show tiny yellow and white hemispheres, outside part show much large yellow globes. ❋ Ed. Bing Ding (N/A)
The sand, or hard shell, or as they are sometimes called little necks, are next in choiceness, and then come the Pismo beach clams, noted for their flavor and enormous size. ❋ Clarence E. Edwords (N/A)
Meanwhile, Austin was ushered by his host into the library -- a moderate-sized apartment, lined with countless books and adorned with etchings of great choiceness; whence, after a few minutes 'chat on indifferent subjects, they adjourned to the dining-room, where a luncheon, equally choice and good, awaited them. ❋ Frederic H. Balfour (N/A)
Its choiceness was great, but was not duly guarded. ❋ Henry B. Fuller (N/A)
Through their choiceness well kenned; and whiles a king's thane, ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
His flow of ideas was not more remarkable than the choiceness and vigor of his expression. ❋ Various (N/A)
For it is false to suppose that a child's sense of beauty is dependent on any choiceness or special fineness, in the objects which present themselves to it, though this indeed comes to be the rule with most of us in later life; earlier, in ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
Dedham and Paul Revere potteries made near Boston should be mentioned, for although of less costly type they are doing much to set a standard of perfection of form, choiceness of coloring, and fitness of design. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
Though it lacks the choiceness of design and the beauty and fineness of the Belfast bleached linens, it is good for everyday wear and quickly whitens when laid in the sun on grass or snow; while the fact that its cost is somewhat less than that of the corresponding quality in the bleached damask, and that it wears better, recommends it to many. ❋ Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson (1907)