598 examples of underlying in sentences

Another assumption underlying the animistic hypothesis, and also borrowed from Christian teaching, is that the savage regards the soul or ghost as the liberated and consummated man, and that therefore he will place God rather in the category of disembodied than of embodied men.

But perpetually, the underlying careerist instinct drives him to use all men and women, all ideas and movements and forces he comes in contact with for his own personal advancement, just as the slave making instinct guides the red ant in all its activities to procure its captives.

Nietzsche might have been relieved of his headaches, and Caesar of his epilepsybut then, would notwith correction of the underlying streams of activity on the part of the other glands of the internal secretion to compensatetheir peculiar superiority and distinction, and the fruits of their lives as by-products, have been destroyed.

It is possible, by feeding various glandular extracts, to correct deficiencies or excesses of their function, and so to remedy the underlying basis for a criminal career.

All kinds of questions arise as soon as one attempts to consider the bearing of this underlying principle upon concrete situations.

It is these tremendous underlying facts and tendencies that suggest the true moral of this war.

"No man liveth to himself" is the underlying principle of action.

Underlying many of our romances and tragedies are moral injunctions which are involuntarily absorbed by the observers, yet of so subtle a nature that they are not suspected.

In the degree of this release we are, of course, thrown back upon underlying principles and universal persuasions,since these of necessity become, in the absence of more artificial ties, the chief bond of such peace and coöperation as obtain.

This cannot be said of "Ali Baba," because the five parts are not linked together in a logical sequence as are the events in "The Gold-Bug," or by any controlling idea of reform such as we find in "A Christmas Carol," or by any underlying moral purpose like that which gives unity and dignity to "The Great Stone Face."

Underlying all this remorse, all this doubt was a steadily growing consciousness that her love for him was in the very outset a mistake, an abnormal emotion, born of temporary and insufficient occasion, and therefore sure to have sooner or later proved too weak for the tests of life.

But, after all, it was not Uncle Tom, nor Topsy, nor Miss Ophelia, nor Eliza, nor little Eva that made the book the power it proved to stir the hearts of men, but the great underlying tragedy then already rapidly approaching a bloody climax.

I wanted to bring out the underlying issues which would affect our own conduct, and our own policy, and to put them clearly.

The underlying motive was not economic necessity, nor religious enthusiasm, but sheer lust of gain.

Under the heading of simple coronitis in its acute form we intend to describe those inflammatory conditions of the skin and underlying structures of the coronet occurring without specific cause.

'Although this test is certain for horn thinned to the quick, it is not to be relied upon with thick horn, the outside of which may be practically healthy and char black, while its underlying surface may be cankered.

There were thus distinguished: (a) The Simple or Cutaneous Quittor, in which had occurred nothing more than necrosis of a portion of the coronary skin and the structures immediately underlying itthat is, the superficial portion of the coronary cushion.

This condition is simply a sloughing of a portion of the skin of the coronet, together with a portion of the immediately underlying soft structures.

140), afterwards exposing the lower half of the cartilage by removing a half-moon-shaped portion of the thinned horn and underlying sensitive laminæ (see Fig.

With the cutting-edge of the knife forward, it is gradually reached round and under the hindermost end of the cartilage, and theposterior half of the cartilage separated from underlying structures, and at the same time excised by one clean cut forwards.

She could see a part of the little island where she had once pulled in to ask about the underlying principles of life, but not being able to see the other side of it, how could she be sure whether a launch ride was what she wanted or not? "Father says we mustn't go in it alone, Aunt Kate.

"Tell him I'm here again and want to find out some more about the underlying principles of life.

Charles Dickens was a loyal champion of all boys, and underlying his pen pictures of them was an earnest desire to remedy evils which he had found existing in London and its suburbs.

No one could tell at what moment the thin veneer of civilization might peel off and reveal the underlying savage.

A person accustomed to watch the faces of those who were ailing in body or mind, and to search in every line and tint for some underlying source of disorder, could hardly help analyzing the impression such a face produced upon him.

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