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Example sentences for "arrested development"

  • The German nation, in fact, is suffering from some form of arrested development, and arrested development, as the criminologists tell us, is almost invariably accompanied by morbid psychology.

  • The National Idea in Germany: a Case of Arrested Development.

  • Is man subject to similar malconformations, the result of arrested development, of reduplication of parts, &c.

  • Many lesser anomalies appear to be due to arrested development.

  • In the thirteenth chapter various peloric flowers were described, and their production was shown to be due either to arrested development, or to reversion to a primordial condition.

  • Whether in regressive or progressive series, each to-day presents a case of arrested development.

  • It is a stemonitis whose sporangia have never been perfectly differentiated, a case of arrested development.

  • The purple forms may be cases of arrested development, since the plasmodium appears to be in all cases purple, or at least they seem to represent those plasmodia which have failed of normal ripening.

  • We can ascertain the point of stoppage, note the stage of arrested development, and trace out the subsequent history of a custom, belief, or rite so arrested.

  • Scarcely less important than the effect of the antagonism of the Church in the production of arrested development is the effect of the toleration of the Church for pagan custom and belief.

  • As a survival in a state of arrested development, a custom or belief is observable throughout its later history.

  • It formed the most solid and systematic arresting force against the natural development of pagan belief and practice, and it is this fact of arrested development in pagan belief and practice which is of great importance.

  • Consequently we may conclude that there are two classes of blonds: that which is associated with a racial type, and that which is the consequence of arrested development.

  • So that it is not an infrequent case when we find mothers, suffering from pellagra, nursing an offspring generated in sickness and condemned to manifold forms of arrested development, both physical and mental.

  • Since the order of growth as between the two essential portions of stature is now determined, we are able to interpret macroscelia as a phenomenon of infantilism (arrested development of the bust).

  • The country folk of these abandoned tracts pine away in misery and at the same time in illiteracy, while their blood is impoverished by disease, and a notable percentage of the children are victims of arrested development.

  • The first of these classes is universally admitted to comprise cases of arrested development.

  • The difference is a very fundamental one," and "may be summed up in the words 'arrested development.

  • Why does he not seek out the reason of this, or is he satisfied with the words "arrested development"?

  • This would eventuate in arrested development, such as Japan showed at the time of Perry's visit.

  • Its location was predominantly central; its culture bore the stamp of isolation and finally of arrested development.

  • He did not report the consumption of blood and wear of brain tissue that in her college way of study correlated her Latin, or hint at the possibility of arrested development.

  • With regard to the physiological effects of arrested development of the reproductive apparatus in women, Dr.

  • The victim of an arrested development, the victim of a social order which had given him no general sense of the facts of life and no sense whatever of its possibilities, he poured vitriol promiscuously over the whole human scene.

  • That bitterness of his was the effect of a certain miscarriage in his creative life, a balked personality, an arrested development of which he was himself almost wholly unaware, but which for him destroyed the meaning of life.

  • The face of a child is often fully developed, yet, owing to some of the constitutional diseases, arrested development of the face at this point takes place.

  • Many lesser anomalies in our domesticated animals appear to be due to arrested development.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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