61 Metaphors for conception

At close range it was easy to see that the prevalent conception of the "barbarians" was the purest kind of rotthe picture created and fostered by the Allied press, of a vicious and besotted beast with natural brutality accentuated by alcoholic rage.

The very conception of automatic conformity to a personal standard is self-contradictory, for it does away with the very thing that constitutes personality, namely freedom of volition, the use of the powers of Initiative and Selection.

We see that the organic world presupposes the ministry of the inorganic; and the animal world, that of the plant world; and that the human world depends on the ministry of all three; and our whole conception of this world as "cosmos" is simply the filling in of this hierarchic framework.

Cake's conception of a real lady was Queen Katherine; Cleopatra her dream of a dangerous, fascinating one.

Depending solely upon her imagination, her conception of that animal is a cross between an alligator and a jaguar.

She wanted to enjoy herself, and her conception of enjoyment was publicity, promiscuitythe band, the banners, the crowd, the close contact of covetous impulses, and the sense of walking among them in cool security.

The Allied conception becomes perforce one of mutual toleration.

His latest conception was a design of a summer palace at Orianda, in the Crimea, for the Empress of Russia, where the purity of the old Greek lines was developed into the poetry of terraces and hanging-gardens and towers, far-looking over the Black Sea.

A true conception of character, and natural expression of it, were his distinguished excellencies."

The clear conception, outrunning deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object,this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence,it is action, noble, sublime, god-like action.

Those in whom that fancy lingers must have but a paltry standard of what righteousness is, a mean conception of moralthat is, spiritualperfection.

Mr. Cox in his Little Guide to Hampshire draws attention to the fact that the conception is "an obvious parody of a Pieta, or the Virgin supporting the Dead Christ" and therefore in the worst possible taste.

But what can you expect of a misguided Whirlpool cat, whose only conception of a bird is a dusty street sparrow, when he meets face to face the delicious and whetting elusiveness of a banty chick or a young robin.

Divine wisdom has established the senses as the avenues through which our minds shall receive notices of the forms and qualities of external things; but the sublime conception of the ancients, that these forms and qualities had an abstract preëxistence in the divine mind, is a common doctrine of many English authors, as Milton, Cowper, Akenside, and others.

The conception of the Nation is the clue to the solution of all the problems with which the people of Great Britain are confronted.

She wanted to enjoy herself, and her conception of enjoyment was publicity, promiscuitythe band, the banners, the crowd, the close contact of covetous impulses, and the sense of walking among them in cool security.

7.Fisher's conceptions of accent and quantity, as constituting prosody, were much truer to the original and etymological sense of the words, than to any just or useful view of English versification: in short, this latter subject was not even mentioned by him; for prosody, in his scheme, was nothing but the right pronunciation of words, or what we now call orthoëpy.

These two conceptions are respectively the conception of the abstract and the concrete, of the unconditioned and the conditioned, of the absolute and the relative.

The conception of the constitutional State in the strictest sense is an impossibility, and would lead to an intolerable state of things.

I am willing to admit that the conception may have been Giorgione's, although even then it would stand alone as evidence of an imagination almost Michelangelesque in its terribilità.

How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity!

The conception is typically Giorgione's own, the thoughtful, dreamy look, the turn of the head, the refinement and distinction of this wonderful figure alike proclaim him; whilst in the workmanship the quilted satin is exactly paralleled by the painting of the dress in the Berlin and Buda-Pesth portraits.

After seeing that face, all the conceptions of all the artists are an offense.

The historic conception is a reference of every state of society to a particular stage in the evolution of its general conditions.

The conception is wholly Giorgionesque, the mood one of calm contemplation, as this lovely figure stands lost in reverie, with eyes cast down, gazing on the head on which her foot is lightly laid.

61 Metaphors for  conception