34 Metaphors for tendencies

Later, it appeared, that the lower she came down from the hills, the more she suffered from spasms, but on the heights her tendency to the magnetic state was the greatest.

The tendency toward analysis and dissection is a result of scientific influence.

In ages less visionary, which are given to ease and enjoyment, the tendency is to bring a great man down to the common level, and to discover or invent faults which shall show that he is or was but a little man after all.

When two or more things are jointly demanded, in proportions which cannot easily be varied, the tendency will be for an increase (or decrease) in the supply of one of them to increase (or decrease) the demand for the others.

These and the like opinions are of so little weight and moment, that, like motes in the sun, their tendencies are very rarely taken notice of.

This tendency is the love of the sex, which precedes conjugial love.

I do not say that God's more glorious attributes are already forgotten, but that the tendency of the Christian lyric is now to laudation of powerand knowledge, a form of the sameas the essential of Godhead.

Their tendency, accordingly, is to restrict ethics to the question of origin and history and description, to deprive it altogether of what is sometimes called its normative characterthat is to say, its character as a science which lays down rules or sets up ideals for conduct.

I am obliged to confess that its immediate tendency is the other way.

We cannot now assert with Mazzini, that the 'indisputable tendency of our epoch' is towards a reconstitution of Europe into a certain number of homogeneous national States 'as nearly as possible equal in population and extent'[109] Mazziui, indeed, unconsciously but enormously exaggerated the simplicity of the question even in his own time.

Another bestial tendency is greed, the strongest grabbing all he can and trampling down the weak, in the mad struggle for wealth; how and when has religion modified this tendency, sanctified as it is in our present civilisation?

The tendency of this section of able men was unquestionably Romewards, almost from the beginning of their connexion with the movement.

The tendency is rather Germanic.

A similar tendency toward compromisethis time it is a synthesis of Leibnitz and Newtonis seen in his Habilitationsschrift, Principiorum Primorum Cognitionis Metaphysicae Nova Dilucidatio, 1755, and in the dissertation Monadologia Physica, 1756.

Considering that the occurrence is so rare as to exist in only about one in every twenty-five or thirty males, these results are very remarkable, and their trustworthiness is increased by the fact that the hereditary tendency is on the whole the strongest in those cases where the Number-Forms are the most defined and elaborate.

Almost every idealist metaphysician has tended to look upon thought itself as constituting the inmost reality of the universe which it conceives or understands; and Kant's doctrine may make us pause and ask whether this tendency is not simply an assumption without warrant.

But this tendency, which is easily the predominant element in the trade union regulations of the cotton trade, is at least an important element in the policy of "The Common Rule" of all trade unions, though it may often be mixed up with the more questionable tendency to eliminate differences of pay for differences of natural ability, and the unquestionably bad tendency to discourage output.

This new tendency to forbid it therefore is merely a return to common-law doctrine.

A tendency to do so was already active in her next remark, "Well, poor soul, we mustn't be too hard on her.

And this tendency, which is a benefit in the dispensation of justice as between private litigants, becomes a menace when courts are involved in politics.

The dreamy tendency in the child, that on its worldly side is fancy, imagination, on its religious side is the germ of mysticism, and I believe it to be far more common than many people think.

Its tendency is ethical in the highest sense of the word, a sense unknown in Europe till its advent; as I have shown you, by putting the morality and religion of the ancients side by side with those of Christendom. Philalethes.

The constitutionality of such boards is, of course, always questionable, but the tendency to create them is perhaps the most striking thing in modern American legislation.

The tendency at the present moment is decidedly towards the French type,two or four cylinders placed in front.

Those tendencies of the age, which seem to others so dangerously materialistic, are the very causes of his zest in life.

34 Metaphors for  tendencies