Do we say spontaneous or unplanned

spontaneous 677 occurrences

One is to rub or wash off the coloring matter with water, allow it to subside, and to expose it to spontaneous evaporation till it acquires a pasty consistence.

The other is to bruise the seeds, mix them with water, and allow fermentation to set in, during which the coloring matter collects at the bottom, from which it is subsequently removed and brought to the proper consistence by spontaneous evaporation.

They were shortly joined by some women of position, who saw in this spontaneous effort one promising remedy, at least for some of the gross evils of underpayment, overwork and humiliation suffered by the working-women and girls of New York, in common with those in every industrial center.

" The Countess all but jumped from her chair in her surprisesurprise that seemed too spontaneous to be feigned.

Beneath the thin legal and administrative ties that hold it together lies the far more vital bond of a traditional free spontaneous activity.

Do you realize that without my permission you can't possibly get out again?" Juliet's laugh was absolutely spontaneous.

Oh, Philadelphia?Waterworks,killed by the Croton and Cochituate; Ben Franklin,borrowed from Boston;David Rittenhouse,made an orrery;Benjamin Rush,made a medical system:both interesting to antiquarians;great Red-river raft of medical students,spontaneous generation of professors to match;more widely known through the Moyamensing hose-company, and the Wistar parties;for geological section of social strata, go to The Club.

Very strange was this vision of an exalted and sensitive existence, which seemed to invade the next sphere, in contrast with the spontaneous, instinctive life, so healthy and so near the ground I had been surveying.

Sometimes feeling the spontaneous courage of a man, I seem to wish for the decisive minute; the next instant a message from my wife, sent by one of the children, quite unmans me.

They always worked with at least half of their attention turned to the past: nor had they the exhilarating sense of free, spontaneous, and progressive invention.

[120] Milan, it is true, produced a brilliant school of sculptors, and the Certosa of Pavia is a monument of her spontaneous artistic genius.

A natural and spontaneous melody, not only in the suggested movements of this scene, but also in the colouring, choice of form, and treatment of drapery, makes it one of the most musical of pictures ever painted.

My memory is not of the nature of a spontaneous vision, though I remember well where a word occurs in a page, how furniture looks in a room, etc.

The spontaneous appearance of a poppy capsule (1) dehiscing as usual by 'pores,' but with inordinately long and arching valves over the pores.

Byron's literary executor and biographer was the Irish poet, Thomas Moore, a born song-writer, whose Irish Melodies, set to old native airs, are, like Burns's, genuine, spontaneous singing, and run naturally to music.

Thackeray's genius was, perhaps, less astonishing than Dickens's; less fertile, spontaneous, and inventive; but his art is sounder, and his delineation of character more truthful.

The songs in the Miller's Daughter had a more spontaneous lyrical movement than any thing he had yet published, and foretokened the lovely songs which interlude the divisions of the Princess, the famous Bugle Song, the no-less famous Cradle Song, and the rest.

It was spontaneous, too, for he was an hour ahead of the caravan.

She lived in the characters, felt and hoped with them, and wrote out of a deep, spontaneous purpose.

One phase of its meaning has been very clearly described by Mr. R.H. Hutton, who says the poem teaches "how the inheritance of the definite streams of impulse and tradition stored up in what we call race, often puts a veto upon any attempt of spontaneous individual emotion or volitions to ignore or defy their Control, and to emancipate itself from the tyranny of their disputable and apparently cruel rule."

He felt complete gratification in all these affirmations made in a caressing and submissive voice, all possible pride in such spontaneous, affectionate address, equivalent to the first surrender.

It is not true that Charlotte could not draw men, or that she drew them all alike; Robert Moore, the hard-headed man of business, the man of will and purpose, who never gives up, is not only almost a masterpiece but a spontaneous masterpiece, one of the first examples of his kind.

For pity is not love, and even Mrs. Plausaby could hardly avoid distinguishing the spontaneous affection of Katy from this demonstration of Isa's, which must have cost her some exertion.

Hence the error or possible blindness of reason; hence also its incomparable grandeur, which lies solely in its free and spontaneous subordination.

do you make no account of the spontaneous tendencies of genius?

unplanned 8 occurrences

That curious system had been the natural and unplanned development of the political complications of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Or did he, foreshadowing the coming Blondin, then unplanned, stretch his tight-rope across the small Niagara that flashes down into the chasm of the St. Charles, and, kicking his boots off, carry some "mute, inglorious" Colcord over in an Indian bark basket?

The grey mare was drifting near, likewise, as though by inadvertence, nibbling the headed grasstops as she came; but Alcatraz shrewdly guessed that her approach was not altogether unplanned.

But we made many side trips and gave many and many an unplanned, extemporaneous roadside concert, as I have told.

This is automatic national bankruptcy; unplanned, though perhaps not unforeseen.

The domed roofs rise in unplanned, beautiful disorder against a sky luminous with jewels.

That is the wage for which I sold my heart! Grant that, because of this unplanned success; You broke the staff across the Prince's head,

And I somewhere twixt hill and dale at dawn Should, shepherd-wise, steal on a victory Unplanned as this, with my good squadrons, eh?

Do we say   spontaneous   or  unplanned