481 examples of faulty in sentences

Lacking him, the harmony (so far as he knows) would utterly lack the compliment of an audience: by his own faulty instrument he must seek to interpret it, if it is to be interpreted at all: and so, like the man at the piano, he goes on "doing his best.

Yes, one could see her, in that time-honored thin silk dress of hers stiffened into brocade by buckram underneath; the high, low-necked waist, hiding any evidences of breast, if there were such evidences to hide, and bringing the long neck into such faulty prominence; and the sleeves, crisp puffs of tulle divided by bands of red velvet, through which the poor lean arm runs like a wire, stringing them together like beads.

It could have just been a faulty manner of encouraging subordinates to improve in their performance, but promises of promotions to more than one candidate, and repeated if unfair comparisons with one another, sometimes did leave strained relationships among the staff that otherwise worked together fairly peacefully.

But the reader will observe that this definition embraces no idea contained in the faulty one to which I am objecting; neither indeed could it, without a blunder.

And many a schoolmaster, taking that work for his text-book, or some other as faulty, is now doing precisely the same thing.

"Every private company, and almost every public assembly, affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution.

LESSON XIII.TWO ERRORS "An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, is always faulty."Dr.

converted, how managed: not to be used for infin., or other more appropriate term: use of, for a nominative after be, is, was, &c., faulty: following a verb of preventing, how to be managed.

; how the terms may be ascertained by a learner terms of, to a prep., may be transposed; are very various; both usually expressed Relative pronouns, defined Relative pronouns, and their compounds, named; declined chief constructional peculiarities of two faulty special rules given by the grammarians, for construc.

of the word Roman letters, some account of Rules, of RELATION, what, commonly found in grammars of SYNT., those common in grammars ill adapted to their purpose; examples of such of do., exposition of the faulty charac.

Same case, after what verbs, except those which are pass., taken Same cases, notice of the faulty rules given by LOWTH, MURR., et al., for the construc.

of, and of the other degrees, new; the faulty charac.

"A very good judge has left us his opinion and determination in this matter; that he 'would take for his rule in speaking, not what might happen to be the faulty caprice of the multitude, but the consent and agreement of learned men.

The delight, arising from the whole, sanctions, nay, sanctifies, the faulty passages; and even actual improvements, like supplements to a mutilated statue of antiquity, injure our preconceived associations, and hurt, by their incongruity with our feelings, more than they give pleasure by their own excellence.

But they assumed a licence equally faulty, and claimed the privilege of writing what might be more properly termed imitations, than versions of the classics.

Disenchantment must come, of course; and in a love which terminates in happy marriage, there is a tender and gracious process, by which, without shock or violence, the ideal is gradually sunk in the real, which, though found faulty and earthly, is still ever tenderly remembered as it seemed under the morning light of that enchantment.

The Principle may be defective or faulty, but the Consequences it produces are so good, that, for the Benefit of Mankind, it ought not to be extinguished.

I must further add, that tho the Drawings of Gardens, Rivers, Rainbows, and the like dead Pieces of Nature, are justly censured in an Heroic Poem, when they run out into an unnecessary length; the Description of Paradise would have been faulty, had not the Poet been very particular in it, not only as it is the Scene of the Principal Action, but as it is requisite to give us an Idea of that Happiness from which our first Parents fell.

For as Horace observes in my Text, the best Man is faulty, tho' not in so great a degree as those whom we generally call vicious Men. 'If such a strict Poetical Justice, as some Gentlemen insist upon, was to be observed in this Art, there is no manner of Reason why it should not extend to Heroick Poetry, as well as Tragedy.

One of the strongest Incitements to excel in such Arts and Accomplishments as are in the highest Esteem among Men, is the natural Passion which the Mind of Man has for Glory; which, though it may be faulty in the Excess of it, ought by no means to be discouraged.

This was the Ambition of a great Mind; but he is faulty in the Degree of it, and cannot refrain from solliciting the Historian upon this Occasion to neglect the strict Laws of History, and, in praising him, even to exceed the Bounds of Truth.

By the Practice of the World, which prevails in this degenerate Age, I am afraid that very many young Profligates, of both Sexes, are possessed of this spurious Edition of the Bible, and observe the Commandment according to that faulty Reading.

One of the earliest examples of the domestic treatment of this group is a quaint picture by Botticelli, in which Mary, bending down, holds forth the Child to be caressed by St. John,very dry in colour and faulty in drawing, but beautiful for the sentiment.

Civilization as reported in history and in its current practice is based on five faulty ideological assumptions: 1.

He gave me a somewhat faulty definition.

481 examples of  faulty  in sentences