121 Metaphors for quality

The quality of the brickwork is the best that I have ever seen, and not a single brick was disturbed beyond those actually removed.

His redeeming quality was a fine aesthetic taste, which he had no doubt through heredity, together with a sad burden of disease.

In commenting on the lot of the Landsturm troops quartered in the villages of Northern France, one author writes: "The Landsturm men pass their time as best they can in these holes, whose most conspicuous quality is their filth.

This important quality in the historical novel is truer and more lively in the Polish writer, and then he possesses that psychological depth about which Walter Scott never dreamed.

The second quality of literature is its suggestiveness, its appeal to our emotions and imagination rather than to our intellect.

If its pastoral quality is somewhat evanescent, there is another point of view from which the piece has a good deal of interest.

It is not easy to account for Spagnuoli's popularity, but the curiously representative quality of his work was no doubt in part the cause.

This fourth quality is the turning-point at which light flames up from darkness and the love of God breaks forth from out his anger; as the first three, or four, forms constitute the kingdom of wrath, so the latter three constitute the kingdom of joy.

Two qualities are needful: virtue and a knowledge of the art of oratory.

Now the distinction is this, that the essential quality of Animus Dei is Personalitynot A Person, but the very Principle of Personality itselfwhile the essential quality of Anima Mundi is Impersonality.

It needs nothing more than the establishment of an efficient system of registration in steam vessels, to insure a large and rapid economy in the consumption of fuel, as this quality would then become the test of an engineer's proficiency, and would determine the measure of his fame.

The cases where the right action is performed in opposition to inclination are the only ones in which we may be certain that the moral quality of the action is unmixedare they, then, the only ones in which a moral disposition is present?

The quality of redemptioners varied from the very dregs of society to well-to-do apprentice planters; but the general run was doubtless fairly representative of the English working classes.

There are two actions, corresponding to the waking and sleeping states, the actors in the latter being those of real life fantastically transformed; but there is no magic or anything else super-natural, and the most fascinating quality in the drama is the skill with which the transformation is made in accordance with the irrational logic of dreams.

The quality which at present directs writers to choosing verse-forms for poetical expression, apart from the traditions, is the need of condensation, and the sense of proportion which the verse-structure enforces and imparts.

Yet to a woman the most formidable quality in a suitor is determination.

The orderly behavior of such a company of peasants will impress one more with the importance of teaching the young, lessons of patience, humility and obedience (which latter quality of character is the mother of a hundred virtues), than volumes of dry philosophy on social ethics will generally avail.

The characteristic quality, according to Aristotle, which is possessed by the Socratic dialogs, by the Homeric epics, and by the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and which classifies them together as poetic, is not verse but mimesis, imitation.

The highest and most valuable quality in Nature is not her beauty, but her generous and defiant ugliness.

According to this theory, the qualities which distinguish one man from another are received at birth, are brought, that is to say, from another world and a former life; these qualities are not an external gift of grace, but are the fruits of the acts committed in that other world.

He also agreed with the general conclusion that, in the continuance of the race, quality was the first thing to be considered, and that the chief aim of civilisation should be to restore Hellenic beauty by selecting parentage for the future generation.

The qualities of the epistolary style most frequently required, are ease and simplicity, an even flow of unlaboured diction, and an artless arrangement of obvious sentiments.

Indeed the velvety quality of our prose is the envy of all other formations.

One special quality of Samuel Daniel is the inevitableness with which he rises when any "strong" appeal is made to ... his imagination.'

Another essential quality of the critical mind that Arnold possessed is "sweet reasonableness."

121 Metaphors for  quality