His brother-in-law paused in the middle of an expatiation on the business opportunities of the neighborhood. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If you expect to feel any emotion or any interest you will not experience it in the long details of a war, the subject of which is very dry and the expressions bombastic, but if you would have bold ideas, an eloquent expatiation on sublime and philosophical courage, Lucan is the only one among the ancients in whom you will meet with it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He merely cites one passage — no more, no less — and declares the book dead, without even casual expatiation. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So I recall this: the story of the violin music being told and Granddad plunging into the midst of the tale with an expatiation on Paganini. ❋ George, Elizabeth (2001)
He went from there to an expatiation of what the presence of yet another Starbucks this one on Gloucester Road not far from Braemar Mansions has done to the atmosphere of his neighbourhood. ❋ George, Elizabeth (2001)
This notion is to be tracked after widely, and in intimate recesses; more hopefully, therefore, according to a planned campaign than a merely wild chance expatiation. ❋ Various (N/A)
Since July 1, 1898, expatiation on the cowardice and lack of skill of the Spanish soldier has ceased to be a profitable literary occupation. ❋ T. G. Steward (N/A)
For such subjects the romance, with its almost unlimited powers of expatiation, is the proper vehicle, but they are unfitted for music; they necessitate wearisome explanations of complicated motives altogether foreign to the direct emotional character of musical drama. ❋ George Ainslie Hight (N/A)
He saves his climax, in other words, from the burden of deliberate expatiation, which at first sight it would seem bound to incur; he leaves nothing for it to accomplish but just the necessary touch, the movement that declares and fulfils the intention of the book. ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
This brought out a witticism to the effect that such recognition would savor less of gallantry if more than a page or two, in so large a volume, had been reserved for expatiation upon the tuneful sisterhood. ❋ Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
To attain to this height it was needful that there should be no aimless expatiation of the intellect, no facile diffusion of the sympathies over the wide field of human activity and human character. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
And as a keen eye for the imagery attendant on a word is essential to all writing, whether prose or poetry, that attempts the heart, so languor of the visual faculty can work disaster even in the calm periods of philosophic expatiation. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)
Edmund's powers of illustration, explanation, and expatiation could not indeed be questioned; but then the subjects selected for the exhibition of those powers were very far indeed from being obvious, evident, or commonplace, and the attorney's heart grew heavy within him. ❋ Augustine Birrell (1891)
In these -- even more perhaps than in Havelok's more masculine and less sentimental fortunes -- there are openings not entirely neglected by the romancer (though, as has been said, he does not seem to have been one of the strongest of his kind) for digression, expatiation, embroidery. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
But the general shortcomings (as they have been admitted to be) in the whole of the second quarter of the century (or a little less) with us, were but natural results of the inevitable expatiation, unsystematic and irresolute, over the newly discovered provinces. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
This had most emphatically not been the case with his predecessor: for Richardson, except in point of mere length, showed little power of expatiation, kept himself very much to the same ground and round, and was not likely to teach anybody else to make excursions. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
His field is illimitable; his expatiation in it is practically untrammelled. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
The expatiation on the loveliness of a well-ordered interior may strike the impatient modern as somewhat long, and the movement as very slow, just as people complain of the same things in Goethe's ❋ John Morley (1880)
The expatiation was long and the movement slow, because Rousseau was full of his thoughts; they were a deep and glowing part of himself, and did not merely skim swiftly and lightly through his mind. ❋ John Morley (1880)
