124 examples of conscientiousness in sentences

He was a good man, of average conscientiousness and average perception: he literally could not see many of the points which Mercy's keener analysis ferreted out, and sharpened into weapons for her own pain.

That lady, though she respected their conscientiousness, could not help disliking them.

Coming, as the new presentation does, from a naturalist of acknowledged character and ability, and marked by a conscientiousness and candor which have not always been reciprocated, we have thought it simply right to set forth the doctrine as fairly and as favorably as we could.

But in a romantic cause the conscientiousness of Miss Wimple, for all her seeming matter-of-fact, took on a quality of chivalry; and she displayed a Quixotism most tiltfully disposed toward any windmill of conventional proprieties that might plant itself in the way by which her beauteous and distressed damsel was to escape.

On the morning of the day set for the funeral, Sophy washed her face until it shone, combed and brushed her hair with painful conscientiousness, put on her best frock, plucked her yellow roses, and, tying them with the treasured ribbon her teacher had given her, set out for Miss Myrover's home.

But what she had was sufficient for the occasion, and this repast for a country gentleman in moderate circumstances and his wife was planned with conscientiousness as well as skill.

It was a mental straightforwardness and conscientiousness, as rare, perhaps, as moral rectitude itself.

He was a perfect martyr to his literary and scientific conscientiousness.

But where a greater variation than that between one midland dialect and another is required, "George Eliot's" conscientiousness is very curiously shown.

Bessie, the eldest of the whole family, was a woman of rigid honor and conscientiousness, but poverty and the struggle to keep out of debt had soured her, and "Aunt Bessie" was an object of dread, not of love.

Meanwhile moral earnestness and technical conscientiousness were both extinct.

Unfortunately I am not a rascal: I can't think of girls as playthings; a fatal conscientiousness in an unmarried man of no means.

In a bulky book, of uneven irregular pages, where the singer with the minute conscientiousness of a child, had preserved everything the newspapers of the globe had written about her, Rafael found echos of her stormy ovations.

You might tell your charge whether or not I am mistaken as to the probable result of hisahartistic conscientiousness.

The conscientiousness so observable in several anecdotes of Isaac's boyhood was strikingly manifested in his treatment of a colored printer, named Kane.

I fear I do my poor share more to satisfy conscientiousness; and that is a dull thing. 3d Mo. 17th.

Mere carnal conscientiousness is a poor substitute for love of God.

I might almost say, tormented my faculty of conscientiousness.

Energy, gentleness, conscientiousness and courtesy were seldom, if ever, blended in such suave accord as in him.

In nearly every transaction with servants in India we find them most unscrupulous respecting the truth of any account which they give, and yet at the same time they will fulfil every engagement they enter into with a conscientiousness almost unknown in Christian countries.

He was by Nature endowed with subtile and profound powers of thought, with feeling at once delicate and intense, with lively and generous sympathies, and with conscientiousness so acute as to pervade and control his whole intellectual disposition.

Despite this, he had said he would never marry; he made, he said, no pretensions to severe conscientiousness, or to being better than others, butas between his Maker and himselfhe had forfeited the right to wed, they all knew how.

"Left England heart-broken, the victim of two egotists and my sweet Mary's weak conscientiousness.

He performed every detail of all religious customs and ceremonies with painstaking conscientiousness; he fasted every Monday and Thursdayonly on Sabbaths and feast days did he indulge in meat or wine; his time was passed in prayer and study; by day he taught the Law to students, whom his fame had drawn to Bacharach; and by night he gazed on the stars in heaven, or into the eyes of Beautiful Sara.

Perhaps through natural indolence, but more likely through over conscientiousness and too high an ideal of artistic perfection, which caused him to magnify his own shortcomings and to soon tire of the subject in hand, he was inclined to abandon his work unfinished and to turn to newer interests.

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