Stanley Cavell on the Emersonian and the pragmatist Deweyan.    From Wordnik.com.  ["This man is a clear-eyed pragmatist who will get the job done" — says Biden of Obama.] Reference

The title was Moods, after an Emersonian epigram from his essay “Experience.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisa May Alcott] Reference

The Emersonian strain in American thought makes the individual the microcosm of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Reliance 2008] Reference

The emergence of Barack Obama signifies that change; the claim of that Emersonian consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Barack Obama Moment] Reference

Then the little man with his long hair and Emersonian face edged his way past us and took his seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

Yet even these analog and digital avatars of the Emersonian impulse only point to the ending of the tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Reliance 2008] Reference

He ends with an Emersonian Gem: "Freedom is inseparable from struggle; it is a process, not a conclusion.".    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Whitehouse] Reference

My senior thesis looks at Emersonian themes in anthropologist Loren Eiseley's book The Unexpected Universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Who is Philocrites?] Reference

A book from her pen means new flashes of insight, a revelation of spiritual truth almost Emersonian in kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

I preferred him without hirsute adornment, but I suspected it was only another example of Emersonian perversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mummy Case]

Mr. Nugent takes from the decline of New Bedford the lesson that the "age of Emersonian self-reliance is behind us.".    From Wordnik.com.  [That Sinking Feeling] Reference

Such a view of education as illumination and deliverance following what Trilling called "exigent experience" is entirely Emersonian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decline and Fall of Literature] Reference

Whatever the shortcomings of Emersonian individualism, it seems to me a potent force of resistance to any sort of authoritarian schemes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emerson and Socialism: An Exchange] Reference

When he reads his six compact lines on "Falls, Bristol, VT," you'll see the poet playing waterfall, having fun with his Emersonian "self.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Lydon: Poet-Critic Dan Chiasson, the Natural (AUDIO)] Reference

Specifically, Mr. Donoghue believes that a version of Emersonian individualism and self-reliance "drives" each of the five books he's singled out as classics.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief Tour of the Classics, Led by a Nimble Expert] Reference

Emersonian face edged his way past us and took his seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

It must have been Maria White who made an Emersonian of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cambridge Sketches] Reference

Emersonian faith and the democratic assumption abundantly justified themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson] Reference

When we come to consider the technique of Mr. Russell's art, we find him anything but Emersonian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Plays and Playwrights] Reference

Some in work clothes, some in traditional robes, they all glow with calmly Emersonian self-reliance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

The poet-priest in the Emersonian sense has never yet appeared, and what reason have we to expect him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference

Emerson is the veritable American eagle of our literature, so that to be Emersonian is to be American.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Criticisms] Reference

The chickadee is indeed a truly Emersonian bird, and the poet shows him to be both a hero and a philosopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference

And then the "style," the treatment and expression, -- yes, it is inimitable, best -- Emersonian throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.] Reference

In Emerson's Journal one sees the Emersonian worlds in their making -- the essays, the addresses, the poems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Harvest] Reference

That is why the Penguin Persons are sent to us; thus we can see in them the swing of the Emersonian pendulum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penguin Persons & Peppermints] Reference

Any one can see how this side of the Emersonian gospel harmonised with the prepossessions of a new democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson] Reference

I loved it and left it on the stalk, in the true Emersonian spirit, and here I do my little best to embalm its memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

It will be seen that this is the pure Emersonian faith which has not only been applied to life in general, but to the arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference

Another good Emersonian story, though I do not know that he ever heard it, is that of an old woman who had a farm in Indiana near the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Harvest] Reference

Carlyle loved Emerson; but the Emersonian philosophy was to him like any other form of old clothes, only rather more grotesque than most.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Froude] Reference