She set her clean canvas firmly upon the easel, as a barrier, frail, but she hoped sufficiently substantial to ward off Mr Ramsay and his exactingness. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Not for them exactingness, caprice, the gay or grave analysis of love and lover: such moods charm alone in lovely women, and even in _them_ bring risks along. ❋ Ethel Colburn Mayne (N/A)
The cruel exactingness of Emperor Wu's laws was also modeled upon Ch'in Legalist practices. ❋ Unknown (1944)
The exactingness of the desire for public spectacles increased, even in secondary cities. ❋ Guglielmo Ferrero (1906)
Alas, this deep insatiableness of sense, the dreary vacuity of soul that follows fulness of animal delight, the restless exactingness of undirected imagination, was never recognised by Rousseau distinctly enough to modify either his conduct or his theory of life. ❋ Morley, John (1905)
It is not so much exactingness on my part, as that you spoke of meaning to write as soon as you received a note of mine ... which went to you five minutes afterwards ... which is three days ago, or will be when you read this. ❋ Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (1898)
But on the other hand, it must be remembered that her standard of exactingness was 'high, and some of the things that in her eyes it was merely culpable to leave undone might be counted by others among virtues of supererogation. ❋ George Willis Cooke (1885)
But on the other hand, it must be remembered that her standard of exactingness was ❋ Cooke, George W (1884)
This point deserves attention, not for the sake of the miserable and ruinous advantage which is obtained by taunting an adversary in controversy with inconsistency till you drive him to improve his logical position by increasing the exactingness of his demands, but because the advocates of Home Rule (honestly enough, no doubt) confuse the matter under discussion by a strange kind of intellectual shuffle. ❋ Albert Venn Dicey (1878)
She was oppressed by ennui, and by that dissatisfaction which in women's minds is continually turning into a trivial jealousy, referring to no real claims, springing from no deeper passion than the vague exactingness of egoism, and yet capable of impelling action as well as speech. ❋ Unknown (1871)
The first condition of excellence in all places of entertainment for man and beast is exactingness on the part of the public. ❋ Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1866)
In the second we find a jealousy which has no love in it; which means the exactingness of self-love, and the tyranny of possession. ❋ Sutherland Orr (1865)
In cancer and gastro-intestinal patients, for instance, they have noted the presence of at least one of four traits-intolerance, exactingness (fussiness), considerateness (those who plan your life but spend their own lives feeling they are not appreciated) and criticalness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Short stories, on the other hand, are famously uncommercial; that, coupled with the perceived exactingness of the form and its heavyweight literary lineage, means that short stories by women are taken seriously - and awarded accordingly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
a trivial jealousy, referring to no real claims, springing from no deeper passion than the vague exactingness of egoism, and yet capable of impelling action as well as speech. ❋ George Eliot (1849)
So we find Miss Simcox saying that Mrs. Lewes, in her friendships, "had the unconscious exactingness of a full nature. ❋ George Willis Cooke (1885)
So we find Miss Simcox saying that Mrs. Lewes, in her friendships, “had the unconscious exactingness of a full nature. ❋ Cooke, George W (1884)
