Manageableness

He felt dizzy, felt simultaneously small and huge, powerful and powerless, dwarfed and ennobled by the might and manageableness of things. ❋ DIANE DUANE (1983)

Here, if nowhere else, her small size and manageableness were in her favour. ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

The advantage of Professor Tait's apparatus is its manageableness and the certainty with which the desired result can be produced. ❋ Unknown (1904)

It is of them that I would talk a little, for my own comfort partly, and also because I am sticking all the time to my subject to illustrate my point, the point of manageableness which I have raised just now. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

The only requisite is manageableness of the ship herself and of the numbers she carries on board. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

On the other side, but equally healthful, may be put the fact that the style and structure of the originals and earlier versions, and especially that verse division which has been now so unwisely abandoned, served as safeguards against the besetting sin of all prose writers of their time, the habit of indulging in long wandering sentences, in paragraphs destitute of proportion and of grace, destitute even of ordinary manageableness and shape. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

They were, like the others, much impressed by its vast power and manageableness. ❋ Nasmyth, James (1885)

** Farmers might try it for the formation of hedges, and were they to transplant it from the nursery when it has a height of about four feet, they would find it forming a hedge quite equal in compactness, strength, economy, and manageableness, to hedges consisting of tried and approved plants, and a hedge available as a fence far earlier than any other, and capable of being raised to any desirable elevation. ❋ Unknown (1863)

Shall we, therefore, wish that our boys had the manageableness of German ones, and with it the submissiveness and political serfdom of adult Germans? ❋ Herbert Spencer (1861)

She was unquestionably the first effort of English ingenuity in the direction of manageableness and simplicity. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

When Herbert returned he was eloquent in his praises of Bessie — her beauty, gayety (then the excitability of her disposition sometimes appeared in extravagant spirits), her sweetness and manageableness; a feminine quality that he admired the more from having had to contend with a contrary disposition in his sister ❋ Unknown (1835)

After having tested a little the ferocity or manageableness of the animal, I passed my hand along the outside of the jaws, and felt a bone wedged between two of the grinders. ❋ William Youatt (1811)

[The manager] will tell you the same thing the [employee] told you [Karen]... ❋ ReeMcFace (2019)

A [manager] will tell you [exactly] how something should be done, even though he or she has never [done it] themselves. ❋ Mitchell986 (2011)

Person 1: "Did anyone else notice the guy [sleeping in] [the crew] room earlier?" Person 2: "No, man, he's with [management]." ❋ Drakeswarm (2010)

Manager [Jimbob] had to change his underwear after I whipped out my contract book and asked him if he was harassing me. His [panic] sweat [reeked] of booze and almonds. ❋ Nate United (2009)

❋ Alien Entity (2002)

[Karen]: [I want to speak to the manager]! ❋ BooplyBoopleyBooty (2019)

manager: i know you told me all this work is impossible to get done in time, but [get it done]. i'll go do some useless [paperwork]. employee: but... manager: [you're fired]. now get back to work. ❋ Jack Cough (2008)

[Vic] [Barron] thinks that if he [blows] enough managers, they might eventually make him a manager too. ❋ -Anon- (2003)

[manager's] friend: [what did you do] [at work] today manager: nothing really... ❋ Nathan. (2007)

[Retail] Worker: I'm starting [my part] time college job tomorrow. I wonder who my [dirtbag] manager is. Maybe this boss will be one of the rare nice ones who won't be there forever. Who knows? ❋ TheSmartBigShot (2009)