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The Victorian solidity of brick and stone was finally giving way to
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Little by little, masses and forms started to regain a relative solidity, and all was soon shrouded in a deep purple twilight
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the solidity of land giving way beneath your soles,
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The famous television gardener always said that the great oak leant the estate an air of permanence and solidity; that it was a link with the past of this small but great house; that it was history and should stand, like himself, as a symbol of greatness and stability forever
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that the great oak leant the estate an air of permanence and solidity;
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The gun in his hand is alternately heavy and light, a thing of solidity and vapour
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The house is substantial, essentially Devonian in its Victorian solidity and state of grand decline
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Typical Earth design, he thought: all hard angles, to give the impression of solidity and robustness – reassurance that this vessel can withstand the most extreme conditions space can offer it
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The matter that was rushing into her from all around was moving too fast to see, but she was obviously gaining solidity very rapidly
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” Ria told him as she regained full visual solidity and her vertical position
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“I’ll say it offers solidity!” Mark chuckled
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She waited until she had taken her first sip and felt its heat and solidity create a link of hospitality between them before she spoke once more, aloud rather than simply in the mind
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He closed his eyes briefly at the memory of the mountain folk and their solidity which had in the end availed them nothing, before turning his thoughts to other possible projects
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Simon could feel the strength, the solidity of his presence, like a wall to stand against in the fiercest storm
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Then, suddenly, he stooped down, took two more steps and melted into the solidity of the cliff
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The findings in physics contradict the everyday notions of the world — its concrete reality and the existence of space, time, mass and solidity
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Haisch asks, ‘Is matter an illusion? Is the universe floating on a vast sea of light, whose invisible power provides the resistance that gives to matter its feeling of solidity? The mystics seemed to have already known the answer
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have based their solidity and effectiveness on the secret persuasion that the
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has mass Its apparent weight and solidity arise from the interactions of the
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same The images I saw were wonderfully sharp and clear and had the solidity
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You're filled with an overwhelming, head-staving urge to flee from this damnable solidity we call the ground?”
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and objects could retain the appearance of solidity and definite location - and of
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It merely appeared to possess separateness and solidity
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The conclusion is that there is absolutely no solidity or separation, as
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Recognizing this moment-to-moment birth and death of the mind allows us to penetrate the illusion of solidity which potentiates the fear of death
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They don’t have the solidity or the
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The cat’s solidity weakened and it became a true hologram and then faded out
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Here you can see how the metaphor slides from an economic free market tone to farmer's market shading to geographical field solidity; one metaphor, market; three tones: free, farmer's, local; but multiple ethical inferences and emotional responses
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turned towards Urit and the image of the DID slowly began printing itself into solidity
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This was both the solidity and spirituality he had been searching for
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” The doors to IM whispered to a fusing solidity, as Urit abandoned himself to the blue behind his closed eyes where all he could see 637
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I think she must have heard through her servant of the number and texture of those pink and blue silk handkerchiefs, of his amazing piles of new and costly shirts, of the obvious solidity of the silver on everything of his that has a back or a stopper or a handle or a knob
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terms are the properties of solidity, liquidity, heat and movement
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reinforcing our sense of the solidity and objectivity of things,
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It was a testament to their solidity that they were still there, a little worn and dented, but there none the less
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It has a solidity and reality that is way beyond the experience of the ego
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The solidity of the canvas-wrapped
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She was immobile as she stared at the bared teeth that were before her, heard the claws ripping at the earth as it sought traction, solidity and smelt the soil that rose from the ground as it launched itself toward her
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Checking out the pyramid's solidity and its energy-collecting ability
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mostly empty space – and whatever solidity it has seems more to resemble a hologram
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apparent solidity, the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed
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world had turned from hard solidity into shimmering mirage
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The solidity of the earth (things that change slowly) when
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The contrast of more solidity than the sea is another clue and understanding related to the holographic nature of this universe
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and the apparent solidity and stability of objects, bodies and the flow of time and energy are merely
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The contrast of more solidity than the sea is another clue and understanding related to the
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The fact that we have two flat pictures on our two retinas to help us, and that we can focus at different planes, would not suffice to account for our knowledge of the solidity and shape of the objective world, were these senses not associated with another sense all important in ideas of form, the sense of touch
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In this way by degrees he acquires those ideas of roughness and smoothness, hardness and softness, solidity, &c
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And who is to say they may not be right? This is certainly the impression one gets from their beautiful painting, with its lightness of texture and avoidance of solidity
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Their use of line is also much more restrained than with us, and it is seldom used to accentuate the solidity of things, but chiefly to support the boundaries of masses and suggest detail
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Light and shade, which suggest solidity, are never used, a wide light where there is no shadow pervades everything, their drawing being done with the brush in masses
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Those who had been brought up in the old school of outline form said there was no drawing in these impressionist pictures, and from the point of view of the mental idea of form discussed in the last chapter, there was indeed little, although, had the impression been realised to a sufficiently definite focus, the sense of touch and solidity would probably have been satisfied
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In the writer's humble opinion the extremely obvious artifice with which the lines have been balanced, and the severity of the convention of this composition generally, are out of harmony with the amount of naturalistic detail and particularly of solidity allowed in the treatment of the figures and accessories
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Shaw lacked solidity, gravitas
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that was there, I would feel its solidity
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with the illusion of solidity
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made him lose his sense of form, location, solidity, the outline of his
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Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
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Further on, blatantly advertising its meritorious solidity, a boarding- house exhibits behind uncurtained windows its testimony to the soundness of London
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My present, all that gave solidity and value to it, at any rate, would stand by me in this test of the reality of my past
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While I was looking at their antics amongst the waves--and for all their solidity they were very elusive things in the failing light--another passenger came out on deck
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Just look at the side of such a tin, and then think of a 50,000 ton ship, and try to imagine what the thickness of her plates should be to approach anywhere the relative solidity of that biscuit-tin
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Your audience needs solidity and substance with which to engage
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mode of reasoning; he gazed, doubtfully, wistfully, on Danglars, and then caution supplanted With the rapid instinct of selfishness, Caderousse readily perceived the solidity of this
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He saw nothing, he had no knife or sharp instrument, the window grating was of iron, but he had too often assured himself of its solidity
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experience the solidity of the obstacle he had so suddenly encountered
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shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon
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And the cameras caught it all: a half million uniformed party members marching in thunderous lock step, standing in massed rectangular formations, perfect in their uniformity and conformity; the speeches by Rudolf Hess, Goebbels, and Hitler himself, pounding on the podium, eyes ablaze, spittle flying from his mouth; Speer’s monumental architecture, the ponderous stone buildings lending their weight and solidity to the impression of overwhelming might, the vast open spaces suggesting unlimited ambition; the eerie torchlight parade of the SA men on the second night, with flickering torches and magnesium flares and bonfires illuminating their gleaming faces against the black night; the ranks of black-shirted SS men goose-stepping past bespectacled, crab-faced Heinrich Himmler; enormous banners emblazoned with swastikas, fluttering in the background of nearly every shot
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His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself—so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity
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The method of his discourse and conversation was very precise, and his words were all set forth in a style of consequence, that took with many for a season as the pith and marrow of solidity and sense
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I looked at the solidity of him, at the smattering of scars
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I sat back on my heels, reaching for the solidity of the wall around me, and leaned back, taking a long, deep breath
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I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall
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I knew the delicious solidity of that body, the soft angles of that face
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Unexpectedly, I missed my cousin Jasper, who had got his first in Greats and was now cumbrously setting about a life of public mischief in London; I needed him to shock; without that massive presence the college seemed to lack solidity; it no longer provoked and gave point to outrage as it had done in the summer
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The solidity of her arm against his leg
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It came upon a solidity of metal
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Yes, they were marked and scratched; they had been "starred," in spite of their solidity; and this proved to me that the torture-chamber in which we now were HAD ALREADY SERVED A PURPOSE
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Twelve years elapsed before the completion of the building, and during that time it was demonstrated that the precautions taken secured absolute impermeability and solidity
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Some slipped a little downward, some got higher footing: people denied aspirates, gained wealth, and fastidious gentlemen stood for boroughs; some were caught in political currents, some in ecclesiastical, and perhaps found themselves surprisingly grouped in consequence; while a few personages or families that stood with rocky firmness amid all this fluctuation, were slowly presenting new aspects in spite of solidity, and altering with the double change of self and beholder
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Casaubon, and become wise and strong in his strength and wisdom, than to conceive with that distinctness which is no longer reflection but feeling—an idea wrought back to the directness of sense, like the solidity of objects—that he had an equivalent centre of self, whence the lights and shadows must always fall with a certain difference
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Vincy, gave a solidity which almost counterbalanced Mr
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I worry a little bit, of course, about the solidity of the municipal bond market, but I’ve decided that with our top-notch analysts here at Vanguard, they should be okay
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He no longer seemed stout, though he still had the appearance of solidity and strength hereditary in his family
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Then, without haste, but without making a useless movement, with firm and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began to raise himself in the angle of the wall and the gable with as much solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his feet and elbows
