237 examples of intentional in sentences

Finally, there is the third method, of the intentional limitation of families.

This may have its errors and defects, but intentional alterations or mutilations of real importance are not to blame for this.

" I kissed the hand that clasped my own, and she went on, speaking with intentional levity.

This may have simply happened, but Steve twice stopped the other, and pointed out something he wished Max to see; so possibly the delay was intentional on his part.

Midshipmen who did not accuse or suspect Jetson of intentional wickedness expressed the opinion that he was, at all events, careless and not a valuable member of the football squad.

As unalloyed Life and Intelligence it can be no other than good, it can entertain no intention of evil, and thus all intentional evil must put us in opposition to it, and so deprive us of the consciousness of its guidance and strengthening and thus leave us to grope our own way and fight our own battle single-handed against the universe, odds which at last will surely prove too great for us.

In this way "grooves of thought" are very literal things, and when once established the vibrations of the cosmic currents flow automatically through them and thus react upon the mind by a process the reverse of that by which our voluntary and intentional in-drawing from the invisible is affected.

She therefore concluded that Raymond's silence was intentional, and ascribed it to his having shortcomings of his own to conceal.

But your mother, I am sure, will acquit me of intentional disobedience.

He explains the Gospel narratives as creations with a purpose (Tendenzdichtungen), as intentional, but not deceitful, inventions, from which, despite their unreality, history may well be learned, inasmuch as they reflect the spirit of the time in which they were constructed.

" "You don't think it was intentional, surely?"

I, however, received no money from him, and can but think that the above explanation was the occasion of his making the charge, and which I trust will leave on his memory, no intentional [final word missing from text].

The Master speaks much on cruelty as a sin against love, and distinguishes between intentional and unintentional cruelty.

He says: "Intentional cruelty is purposely to give pain to another living being; and that is the greatest of all sinsthe work of a devil rather than a man."

The use of the cane must be classed under this, for He says of intentional cruelty: "Many schoolmasters do it habitually."

Occasionally this may have been true; but we see the explanation in the very quality of his genius and temperament, and not in conscious or intentional wrong-doing.

It would appear, from the depositions of the survivors, that the loss of the ship was intentional on the part of the supercargo and nakhoda, (or sailing-master,) the latter of whom, however, was drowned, with several of the crew, in attempting to get on shore in the boat.

In the very heat of the controversy, Johnson was never accused of intentional deception.

But after a few years, one of the men deemed that an intentional affront had been offered him by the other.

He fills up the entire pavement, and stolidly plods on, turning ladies and all into the roadway; not from intentional rudeness, but from sheer inability to perceive that he is causing inconvenience.

so he and his brothers, without intentional mischief, scatter the seeds from the watery white berries of the poison ivy.

Thus, concerning the oath not to hurt, on which the Jaina lays the greatest emphasis: it includes not only the intentional killing or hurting of living beings, plants, or the souls existing in dead matter, it requires also the utmost carefulness in the whole manner of life, in all movements, a watchfulness over all functions of the body by which anything living might be hurt.

This question, was formerly, and is still sometimes, answered in agreement with the first theory, pointing out the undoubted defects in it, to justify the rejection of the Jaina tradition, and even declaring it to be a late and intentional fabrication.

Hitherto he has contented himself with alarming, and making people tired of their lives, but I do not believe he has been the direct or intentional cause of anyone's death.

A general election was about to take place; the manifesto of the Conservative party was so worded that we can hardly believe it was not an express and intentional repudiation of the language which Bismarck was in the habit of using; they desired "the unity of our German fatherland, though not like the Kingdom of Italy through 'blood and fire'

237 examples of  intentional  in sentences