119 Metaphors for sense

The sense of cleanliness was a luxury delicious.

Wide-flush the fields; the softening air is balm; Echo the mountains round; the forest smiles; And every sense, and every heart is joy.

Let reason, then, at her own quarry fly, But how can finite grasp infinity? 'Tis urged again, that faith did first commence By miracles, which are appeals to sense, And thence concluded, that our sense must be The motive still of credibility.

Somewhat more scientific are 'Psychological Aesthetics,' 'The Color Sense,' 'The Color of Flowers,' and 'Flowers and their Pedigrees'; and still deeper is 'Force and Energy' (1888), a theory of dynamics in which he expresses original views.

For once my morbid sense of atmosphere was a desirable possession and helpful to my happiness.

Again, the sense of possessing you is no longer an abstraction when I hold you bodily, and feel the impossibility of keeping step with you.

no sense that you have a powerful spirit?" "Is it power?

Sense is the rule of his belief; and if piety may be an advantage, he can at once counterfeit and deride it.

The sense of sight is the sole dependence of the deaf child.

If this is right, the neuter sense is not its primitive import, or any part of it. OBS.

"A sense of humor is a help and a blessing through life," says Rear Admiral Buhler.

This mortal frame, while thou didst play thy brief antics amongst us, was in truth any thing but a prison to thee, as the vain Platonist dreams of this body to be no better than a county gaol, forsooth, or some house of durance vile, whereof the five senses are the fetters.

The sense of contact is the most important element in touch.

Brahmanism carried idealism to the extent of denying any reality to sense or matter, declaring that sense is a delusion.

The sense of superiority is generally not a lovely manifestation in any human being, but there are moments when it tells of something fine, a disdain of actions low and mean.

"There was no mistaking that father's sense of convention was the one thing that stood between him and my desire.

I am sure you will say such a sense of achievement is worth all the trouble which must be faced and all the patience which must be exercised.

He has travelled a long way from his master Fra Angelico here: the heaven is of the visible rather than the invisible eye; sense is present as well as the rapturous spirit.

To illustrate how the sense of touch is a matter of habit or education.

If in the course of your observations or inquiries they should appear to need any aid within the limits of our constitutional powers, your sense of their importance is a sufficient assurance they will occupy your attention.

The sense of beauty is in one respect an affair of the soul, and only superficially an aesthetic quality.

If he ate honeysuckle instead of hard-tack would he be squeezed for his scents to fill ladies' smelling-bottles?" "I don't know that sense is always a recommendation to women," Jack shifts his burden to say tentatively, as Barney, involved in a more than commonly obstinate brier, loses the thread of this joco

A sense of justice prevails and the sanction of law becomes not so much fear of the penalty imposed, as the moral and religious sense of the individual and of society.

We may recognize in it a revival of the common notions of Herbert, as well as a transfer of the innate faculty of judgment inculcated by the ethical and aesthetic writers from the practical to the theoretical field; the "common sense" of Reid is an original sense for truth, as the "taste" of Shaftesbury and Hutcheson was a natural sense for the good and the beautiful.

Your fatherhood, which is an intense feeling to you, is only an additional fact of meagre interest for him to remember; and a sense of obligation to the particular living fellow-struggler who has helped us in our thinking, is not yet a form of memory the want of which is felt to be disgraceful or derogatory, unless it is taken to be a want of polite instruction, or causes the missing of a cockade on a day of celebration.

119 Metaphors for  sense