42 examples of penetrative in sentences

Further, he had little of what Mr. Ruskin calls penetrative imagination.

Nor only through the lenient air this change, Delicious, breathes: the penetrative sun, His force deep-darting to the dark retreat Of vegetation, sets the steaming power At large, to wander o'er the verdant earth, In various huesbut chiefly thee, gay green!

The action was so conspicuous, the landlord laid it up in his penetrative mind.

Concede intellectual power, or the spiritual element, then add this temperament, and there follows a certain subtile, penetrative, radical quality of thought, a characteristic percipience of principles.

To the one he appertains by intellectual emancipation and penetrative power; to the other by his pungent element of sympathy with persons.

His penetrative efficiency compelled one's admiration, and his unconcealed vanity showed that he did not stand wholly outside the human family.

The brown ploughed earth seemed swelling up, Filled like a sponge with sunbeams, which lay still, Nestling unseen, and broodingly, and warm, In every little nest, corner, or crack, Wherein might hide a blind and sleepy seed, Waiting the touch of penetrative life To wake, and grow, and beautify the earth.

"Canarie-wine, which beareth the name of the islands from whence it is brought, is of some termed a sacke, with this adjunct, sweete; but yet very improperly, for it differeth not only from sacke in sweetness and pleasantness of taste, but also in colour and consistence, for it is not so white in colour as sack, nor so thin in substance; wherefore it is more nutritive than sack, and less penetrative.

"There are times, Dominie, when your mind has real penetrative power.

The second and most valuable part of the work defines matter as the movable, that which fills space by its moving force, and recognizes two original forces, repulsive, expansive superficial force or force of contact, by which a body resists the entrance of other bodies into its own space, and attractive, penetrative force or the force which works at a distance, in virtue of which all particles of matter attract one another.

The mirror of eternal truth unveil'd, Mid light effulgent and celestial day I, more than cherub, whose unfetter'd soul With penetrative glance aspir'd to flow Through nature's veins, and, still creating, know The life of gods,how am I punish'd now!

Over her head we discerned the spare, upright shape of Mr. Bowen looking grim and penetrative, but not unkindly.

Though only hints and suggestions, they are, perhaps, the most penetrative and helpful Shaksperian criticisms in English.

Marguerite Grey was not a weigher of motives, nor penetrative in the chemistry of scandal.

PENETRATIVE VIRGINITY The change in love from the barbarian and ancient attitude to the modern conception of it as a refining, purifying feeling is closely connected with the growth of the altruistic ingredients of lovesympathy, gallantry, self-sacrifice, affection, and especially adoration.

" In the eyes of refined modern lovers, every spotless maiden has that gift of penetrative virginity.

Virginity: Penetrative; Indifference to; (See Chastity).

It is in such a letter, for instance, that we come upon a singularly penetrative estimate of the genius and writings of Defoe.

Wherefore it silences reasoning, enters into a silent and persistent course of observation, consults the facts, examines, studies and questions the principles whence it sees them to be deduced; and, without yielding to the obscurity in which these principles are enveloped, pierces that obscurity by the penetrative force of unremitting attention.

The checks were sunken and sallow; the large, black, melancholy eyes had a wistful, anxious, penetrative expression, that spoke a stringent, earnest spirit, which, however deep might be the grave in which it lay buried, had not yet found repose.

There was something in this voice at once penetrative and sweet; but now she was again conscious of what sounded like a delicately-hinted reproof.

Do the children always wait on you, John, at breakfast?" There was something peculiarly sweet and penetrative in the voices of Brandon and his sister; but this second quality sometimes appeared to give more significance to their words than they had intended.

She was rather eloquent when her feelings were touched, and then she had a sweet and penetrative voice.

Caroline would have borne it in silence had it only extended towards herself, but it appeared as if both Emmeline and Ellen shared the contempt she perhaps had justly called forth on herself, as the Duchess, tenacious of her penetrative powers, feared to honour either of them with her favour, lest she should be again deceived.

Vainly did the Spirit of Light within her counsel her to persevere, looking only at the end she would achieve; subtler and more penetrative to her untuned ear were the words of the fiend at her side.

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