These deal with the casuists of the Counter-Reformation in the spirit of Milton, laying especial stress on the artificiality of their methods and the laxity of their results.
The limited object of my discussion will, doubtless, give an exaggerated impression of my conviction as to the artificiality of much recent philosophizing.
The confusion and artificiality thereby introduced into philosophical thought is nowhere more evident than in the empirical treatment of relations or dynamic continuities.
One of the first principles they honor is wabi, which deplores nonfunctional decorative objects, polished surfaces, artificiality in shape or color, and anything unnatural to the materials used.
Whereas artificiality would draw a diner's spirit away from the real world, naturalness brings him closer to it.
According to the Taoist the Chinese fell from the simple life into artificiality about the time of the legendary Yellow Emperor, Hoang-ti (27th century B.
The very society against the artificiality of which Rousseau’s whole work is a protest is itself in no small degree a pastoral creation.
Only get away from an artificial society and back to nature and the inner conflict which is but a part of the artificiality will give way to beauty and harmony.
The stupidity and mediocrity of the bourgeois are his target, just as Rousseau’s target is the artificiality of the drawing-room.
There is undeniably an element of narrowness and artificialityin this conception of nature, and a resulting unfriendliness, as appears in Pope’s definition of wit, towards originality and invention.
The artificiality of this manner of writing points, as in several instances noted, to a mere 'play' upon the real name.
The association is marked by an artificiality and a certain arbitrariness that stamps it not only as the product of theological schools, but as a thought that would remain confined to a limited circle of the population.
Among his innumerable hasty productions written to order, there are, notwithstanding their artificiality of form, works of true art.
A character may snarl or bellow or invite or plead, for instance, but if he is made to flame in words there will be a suggestion of strain and artificiality for a reader.
Ethel got up, and with a complete breakdown of all the artificiality so carefully instilled into her by her fashionable school, slipped into her sister's arms and burst out crying.
It made her therefore a little uneasy to notice about her a growing artificiality which was neither attractive nor characteristic.
The artificiality of the flapper left her for the time being and she felt as young as she really was and rather helpless, and awfully lonely.
But, in the main, French artificialityand frivolity predominated on the German stage.
Its artificiality affected the entire growth of Italian comedy, including the commedia dell' arte, and impressed itself in an intensified form upon the opera.
His first step was, by his Miss Sara Sampson (1755), to oppose the realism of the English domestic drama to the artificiality of the accepted French models, in the forms of which Chr.
Making war upon the frigid artificiality of classical tragedy, he banished verse from the new species.
It was likewise, and more signally, due to the great actors who freed the tragic stage from much of its artificiality and animated it by their genius.
With Cato English tragedy committed suicide, though its pale ghost survived; with The Conscious Lovers English comedy sank for long into the tearful embraces of artificiality and weakness.
The general laws of this progress accord with those of the natural advance of creative genius; artificiality gives way to freedom, and freedom in its turn submits to a greater degree of regularity and care.
In reflecting the restless spirit of this progressive age Tennyson is as remarkable as Pope was in voicing the artificiality of the early eighteenth century.
With much of the artificiality of his age he shows gracefulness, a feeling for the country, and occasional gleams of tenderness.
Donne, is at times characterised by artificiality and conceits.
Not to have realized the essential artificiality of his former method of approach!
But a longing came upon me for the old backwoods life, with its freedom and self-reliance, and a hatred for this steaming country of heat and violent storms, and artificiality and pomp.
Sidenote: The Homeric poems therefore mainly natural;] This it is which makes any systematic artificiality to my mind most improbable.
I have delayed over this important and novel theory not unduly, because its adoption affects the question of the artificiality of the poems.
There is another point alleged for theartificiality of the Homeric poems which has not any greater weight.
The palpable artificiality of these laws needs no demonstration, so long as the true meaning of the term "action" be kept in view.
As one says so often in this history of the intellectual preparation for the Revolution, the corruption and artificiality of Parisian society had the effect of colouring the world of primitive society with the very hues of paradise.
It is a university, stripped of every artificialityand conventionality, and thrown open to all without distinction.
The artificiality of the proceedings is fostered by a general right of appeal on points of law to the court of last resort.
The poetry of Abu-l-'Atahiya is notable for its avoidance of the artificiality almost universal in his days.
The steps along which plant and animal domestication passed upwards in artificiality are graphically illustrated in the aboriginal food quest.
It enveloped him like a veil--the artless artificiality of Paris!
The artificiality of the process which brings the two heroes together is apparent in the dreams of Gilgamesh which are interpreted by his mother as portending the coming of Enkidu.
The artificiality of the process of introducing Gilgamesh into the episode is revealed by this awkward and entirely meaningless repetition.
The deep itself had sometimes the unreality, the artificiality of the canvas sea of the theatre.
Put her beside them in their own environment, and they would seem stale by comparison; bring those others here, and their bald artificiality would be pathetic.
Therefore they accepted insufficient motivation and artificialityin handling the scenes.
All this turns the husband in this scene from a mere lay figure into a character, and greatly lessens the artificiality of the original.
