94 adjectives to describe innovations

Some writers have spoken of it as a kind of "dangerous innovation in our criminal procedure."

He proceeds to warn us that if the desire for legislative innovation be allowed to grow upon us at its present pacepace assumed to be very headlong indeedthe chances are that our luck will not last.

The word has a vulgar sound even, and savours of a useless innovation.

But by far the boldest innovation on existing practice is the new class of compound locomotives now being introduced by Mr. Webb.

But at Quebec the scene, the setting, and the unheard-of innovation itself all give a special interest to every detail of the opening ceremony on the 17th of December 1792.

It was a moderate innovation, very moderatenothing more than the first failure of the First Alexander.

All endeavors to introduce any foreign innovation, the necessity for which is not rooted in the core of the nation itself, are therefore foolish; and all premeditated revolutions of the kind are I unsuccessful, for they are without God, who keeps aloof from such bungling.

It affords an example of the danger arising from those sudden and arbitrary innovations, which, by depriving any part of the community of their usual means of living, and substituting no other, tempt them to indemnify themselves by preying, in different ways, on their fellow-citizens.

What instance of extravagant innovation is given in Obs.

The spirit of revolution was reduced to play the meagre game of secret associations; not seconded by any movement of universal interestthe spirit of radical innovation was restrained into scientific polemic, read by few and understood by fewer.

Shall we look in vain thro' the ranks of that party for one to lift up his voice against this daring and dangerous innovation?

As to the notion of introducing a new and more complex passive form of conjugation, as, "The bridge is being built," "The bridge was being built," and so forth, it is one of the most absurd and monstrous innovations ever thought of.

I was once so unwary as to mention my Fancy in relation to the new-fashioned Surtout before one of these Gentlemen, who was disingenuous enough to steal my Thought, and by that means prevented my intended Stroke. I have a Design this Spring to make very considerable Innovations in the Wastcoat, and have already begun with a Coup dessai upon the Sleeves, which has succeeded very well.

As a fitter opportunity for discussing the question will be afforded by the Duke of Wellington's bill, in 1829, we should not have mentioned it at all in this place, had not Lord Liverpool, in arranging his administration, adopted a mode of dealing with it which, though rather a parliamentary or departmental than a constitutional innovation, was, nevertheless, one of so strange a character as to seem to call for examination.

No book was ever turned from one language into another, without imparting something of its native idiom; this is the most mischievous and comprehensive innovation.

We live in a time of damnable innovations, and of most atrocious attempts to overturn the altar, the state, and the public trusts, and the sentiments of such a man are like dew to the parched grass.

He provided himself with a cross-staff for determining the angular distance between stars or other objects, and, finding the divisions of the scale inaccurate, constructed a table of corrections, an improvement that seems to have been a decided innovation, the previous practice having been to use the best available instrument and ignore its errors.

Yet all were none the less grateful for the decorative innovations which Esther, acting on occasional hints from her friend Myrtilla Williamson, was able to make; and if it were true that she hardly took her fair share of bed-making and pastry-cooking, it was equally undeniable that to her was due the introduction of Liberty silk curtains and cushions in two or three rooms.

Yet some traditions ventured to put prophetic warnings on Mohammed's lips against dogmatic innovations that were sure to arise, and to make him pronounce the names of a couple of future sects.

But these dramatic innovations were sure not to pass without protest, though the protest came from a quarter where it might least have been expected.

These offices were drastic innovations, introduced to get rid of the very long psalm arrangement of the ferial office.

Some adventurous writer, unable to obtain distinction among a host of competitors, all better qualified than himself to win legitimate applause, strikes out a fantastic or monstrous innovation; and arrests the attention of many who would fall asleep over monotonous excellence.

The same year Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, attempted another innovation, favourable to ecclesiastical and papal power: in the king's absence, he summoned, by his legatine authority, a synod of all the English clergy, contrary to the inhibition of Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, the chief justiciary; and no proper censure was ever passed on this encroachment, the first of the kind, upon the royal power.

The facts, however, which are here adduced, preclude the possibility of referring this portion of the feudal innovations to the direct legislation of the Conqueror.

A fifth innovation was the transfer of individually operated and family businesses into associations and corporations with limited liability and widespread ownership by bond and stockholders.

94 adjectives to describe  innovations