We say that divorce and Sabbath-breaking are sweeping over our countrygambling, social drinking, and many other ills; a sensational press, a corrupt politics, a materialistic greed.

The others contributed sensational literature with paper covers adorned lithographically.

The sensational paragraph writers had better "let up" on the question of an imminent dearth of ice.

Not so, however, in those days of Arcadian simplicity; for the astounding temerity of the Piper's son, in laying felonious hands on the property of the village butcher, or baker, caused an excitement second only to a hanging, or a first-class sensational horror, of later days.

The worst of this excellent idea is that it can hardly be said to originate either with Mr. Henderson or Mr. HEWLETT, that credit belonging (I fancy) to the late HERBERT FLOWERDEW in a too-little-appreciated masterpiece of sensational burlesque called The Realist.

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The man was young, fantastically young if you were to judge by his garb, a flamboyant expression of the romantic cowboy style which might have served as a sensational exhibit in a shop-window.

It is, indeed, fortunate for our sensational novelists that they remain so ignorant of their theme, for otherwise murders, monsters, and mysteries would disappear from their pages, and goodness knows how they would make a living then!

and the readers of the Twentieth Century who looked to me for something sensational and thrilling.

He wound up the whole with a point of sensational rhetoric which was common, as has been said, to the Roman bar as to our ownan appeal to the jurymen as fathers.

They had named him after the hero of their Latin exercise-book, which overflowed with anecdotes about that versatile geniusanecdotes whose vagueness in detail was more than compensated by their sensational brilliance.

Matinée at the Princess's of "Two Little Vagabonds," a very sensational melodrama, capitally acted.

The engagements, the love affairs, the scandals of conspicuous people are given in pitiless detail in articles adorned with vigorous portraits and sensational pictorial comments.

So far, then, as mechanical science goes I am inclined to think the coming period will be, from the point of view of the common man, almost without sensational interest.

This secrecy is one which cannot be justified as a sensational joke nor as a common human freemasonry, nor as an indescribable personal whim.

In John Webster the fondness for abnormal and sensational themes, which beset the Stuart stage, showed itself in the exaggeration of the terrible into the horrible.

Quietism was his literary religion, and the sensational was to him not merely vulgar, but almost wicked.

It's only the most sensational caseswhere there's real organic injury of a really serious kindthat ever come at all before the highest courts.

Long enough continued it will even produce that permanent insensibility which we call numbness, and a little longer, muscular as well as sensational paralysis.

'The Daily Tell-Tale' had a beautifully sensational article, written by their very best artist.

" Sahwah roused the girls from bed with her sensational piece of news and they all hastened home with Agony.

Ranthorpe would now be regarded as a very dull novel, and it is crude, full of the sensational, with little analysis of character and much action.

(In Walter Peterson sensational collection of mountain ballads and old time songs) © 19Mar31; AA180128.

a burglar and a heroine, I thought what a noble start for a sensational novel.

"A sensational newspaper."

Psychology, then, had worked itself to a breakdown by accepting the 'sensationalistic' analysis offered by Hume, and dragged philosophy with it.

The rationalistic edifice contradicts the sensationalistic foundation.

He never impugned the validity of mathematical reasonings, nor experimental truths concerning matters of fact; in regard to the former his thought is rationalistic, in regard to the latter it is empirical or, more accurately, sensationalistic.

This is distinguished from the sensationalistic psychology, which is also genetic (cf.

The German positivists:E. Laas of Strasburg (1837-85), A. Riehl of Freiburg in Baden (born 1844), and R. Avenarius of Zurich (born 1843)develop their sensationalistic theory of knowledge in critical connection with Kant.

Locke's doctrine of Berkeley on Hume's skeptical doctrine of Scottish doctrine of sensationalistic doctrine of, in France Leibnitz's theory of Kant on Fichte's Science of Schelling's philosophy of Baader on Schleiermacher's doctrine of Hegel on philosophical J.F. Fries's doctrine of Beneke on speculative Schopenhauer's doctrine of Comte's doctrine of Sir Wm.