This is why machine-work can never be thoroughly beautiful: it lacks the spontaneity of life.

His power and his spirit were alike unique and incommunicable, while the admiration of his youthful worshippers betrayed them into imitating the externals of a style that was rapidly losing spontaneity.

Before the day went, Miss Eunice awoke to the disagreeable fact that her plans had become shrunken and contracted, that a certain something had curdled her spontaneity, and that her ardor had flown out at some crevice and had left her with the dry husk of an intent.

When a famous classic actress reappeared as Rosalind, he described her performance as "all minute-guns and minauderies, ... a foot between every word, and the intensity of the emphasis entirely destroying all the spontaneity and flow of spirits which alone excuse and explain; ... as unlike Shakespeare's Rosalind, I will stake my head, as human personation could be!"

Then, however, he discovered the engaging spontaneity of a schoolboy at a pantomime, and drawing up a chair sat on the edge of it and addressed himself with unaffected eagerness to the most portentous eyebrows in captivity.

But to display spontaneity, daring, freshness, accuracy you must have or acquire a large stock, a wide range, of words.

The writing of it was an easy matter; in fact, so easy, because of the pressure of truth under which I was laboring at the time, that it embodied a compelling spontaneity.

Some higher types may even come to speak connected sentences, and exhibit a certain mild spontaneity, though stupid and slow and abnormally deliberate, resembling the acquired form of thyroid deprivation or insufficiency, for which Ord invented the name myxedema.

Community of possession must include spontaneity of production; for what is obtained by labour will be of right the property of him by whose labour it is gained.

It indicates a greater spontaneity than any of her books after The Mill on the Floss, and gives ample evidence that it possessed and absorbed the author's mind with its purpose and spirit.

He had long outlived the spontaneity of youthful ardour.

The wonder is that, with their way of working philosophy, individual Germans should preserve any spontaneity of mind at all.

Here, against their own background, the two girls seemed more at their ease and showed more spontaneity than at school.

The contagion of his high spirits is, however, irresistible; and, putting aside all other and more solid qualities in them, these chapters are, for mere funfor that kind of clever nonsense which only wins by perfect spontaneity, and which so promptly makes ashamed the moment spontaneity failsunsurpassed by anything of the same kind from the same hand.

And for such moments Lanyard was always on the qui vive, but quietly, who knew that nothing so quickly stifles spontaneity as self-consciousness.

<Wordiness> As a precaution against tameness you should cultivate spontaneity and daring.