34 adjectives to describe seekings

"Nearly all men and women are alikeworldly, selfish, self-seeking.

he says again; "why, friend, 'tis half of all I have made of the estate by a life of thrift and care and earnest seeking.

Not that one might not possibly, by careful seeking (tho I doubt it), find some line in nature along which terms literally the same, or causes causal in the same way, might be serially strung without limit, if one's interest lay in such finding.

But this was a deliberate seeking on his part.

It cannot be found by direct seeking, but by setting our faces toward the things from which it flows; and so we must climb the mount if we would see the vision, we must tune the instrument if we would hear the music.

Simultaneously with this question of educational opportunity, has arisen an eager seeking after knowledge on the part of women who have been debarred from its enjoyment, or lacked opportunity for its acquisition.

Self-love desires a thing because it expects pleasure from it, but the natural impulses impel us toward their objects immediately, i. e., without a representation of the pleasure to be gained; and repetition is necessary before the artificial motive of egoistic pleasure-seeking can be added to the natural motive of inborn desire.

The same Johnnies and Billies and Fays came to this office in their endless seeking.

First, instead of the ordinary keyhole there was something exactly resembling the customary mouthpiece through which we whistle upstairs from the ground floor of a flat seeking to attract the people who rarely answer.

And had he added to his predictions of ruin, utterly inconceivable by the giddy, pleasure-seeking, atheistic people, the most scathing denunciations of the prevailing sins of that godless city, all the more powerful because they were true, addressed to all classes alike, positive, direct, bold, without favor and without fear,would they not have been stirred to violence, and subjected him to any chastisement in their power?

It provoked opposition in the Church and in the Court, which was for the most part gross and self-seeking.

The minister did indeed acknowledge his own iniquities in general, with others, and also particularly at the entry of the work; but without any design to please party or person; but only for the glory of God as himself declared, which if any shall say was but hypocritical self-seeking, we must remit them to the apostle's interrogation, to prepare an answer, Who art thou, O man, that judgest?

Failing in that ignoble self-seeking, he had gone where his heart was, while the family, to retain their property, remained among the loyal, to insult their woe and gloat over their misfortunes.

Grasping, pleasure-seeking, indifferent to reason, and enamoured of the lie, so it goes on, and the masters of the word might just as well have hushed their sweet or thunderous voices.

He was indolent and pleasure-seeking, but was awakened from his inglorious sports by a revolt in Britain.

Evolution was a stern inevitable seeking of nature for perfection, for the unattainable.

For several days she had been ill, and I knew that Abraham felt anxious; therefore I did not wonder at his hasty coming in and instant seeking of me.

Few outside influences had been brought to bear on the Mohammedan population to moderate their extreme bigotry and hatred of anything called Christiana word which they invariably associated with the picture and image worship of the members of the Greek or Roman Church with whom they had come in contact, or with the irreligious pleasure-seeking of tourists, or travellers by the overland route to India.

Her whole subsequent life showed her to be as cunning and politic as she was luxurious and pleasure-seeking.

The lessons lie rather in his conception of farming as an honorable occupation capable of being put on a better and more scientific basis by the application of brains and intelligence; in his open-minded and progressive seeking after better ways.

Weeks of busy gaiety on her part, of steady, persistent seeking on his.

What the curious American traveler could find out himself from observation and pertinacious seeking he was welcome to, but the Briton would waste no breath to enlighten Yankees as to the points of interest or customs of his country.

Colonial unrest and provincial self-seeking were promoted by conspiracies among Rome's less dependable allies.

Nothing remains of the shy graces, the melodious simplicities, the pure seeking after musical proportion, which marked the happier Italian effort of the early Renaissance, through Brunelleschi and Alberti, Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, and Peruzzi.

Curiosity and fickleness are merely parts of a restless seeking,nothing more.

34 adjectives to describe  seekings