His hazy awareness was no more than an awareness of something--which, by the way, corresponds very fairly with the hazy awareness of the average human of the mysteries of birth and death and of the beyondness about which they have no
definiteness of comprehension.
The right word is always a power, and communicates its
definiteness to our action.
Unaccustomed to action or responsibility,--full of horror at what she had seen, and afraid to inquire, or almost to imagine, how it had come to pass,--affrighted at the fatality which seemed to pursue her brother,--stupefied by the dim, thick, stifling atmosphere of dread which filled the house as with a death-smell, and obliterated all
definiteness of thought,--she yielded without a question, and on the instant, to the will which Clifford expressed.
They went their ways with great haste and
definiteness, withal there was a curious indecision in their movements, as though they expected the buildings to topple over on them or the sidewalks to sink under their feet or fly up in the air.
Plato's doctrine of ideas has attained an imaginary clearness and
definiteness which is not to be found in his own writings.
In speech and especially in literature, most of all in poetry, they were given to abstractness of thought and expression, intended to secure elegance, but often serving largely to substitute superficiality for
definiteness and significant meaning.
There are faces that call your attention by a cu- rious want of
definiteness in their whole aspect, as, walking in a mist, you peer attentively at a vague shape which, after all, may be nothing more cu- rious or strange than a signpost.
Take, for the sake of
definiteness, the remembering of a past event.
For
definiteness the direction of angular velocity [omega]7 we set clockwise.
on
definiteness: a study with special reference to English and Finnish.
As examined more fully below, an over-arching feature of a contract is the requirement of
definiteness. Because of this requirement, contracts as such can hardly ever be adaptive in a way suggested by Easterbrook and Fischel as a desideratum for business organizations.