Adjective : multifarious activities. From Dictionary.com.
The world in its multifariousness offers ample evidence for any hypothesis. From Wordnik.com. [Inner Guide] Reference
This great multifariousness of the German life was recognized and admired by others. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
But this very multifariousness had its darker side, the fatal, much deplored lack of unity. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Consciousness of a distinct or individual Self, then does he, losing his multifariousness, resumes his Oneness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Without some lead or clue we should lose ourselves in the multifariousness of transmitted knowledge at our disposal. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
This is the cause of Jiva, multifariousness (in respect of forms) as explained in the Srutis and the Sankhya scriptures. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Given the multifariousness of mental states, it is quite likely that the correct position will be some kind of combination of these positions. From Wordnik.com. [Physicalism] Reference
Lone ambassador of the multifariousness of known worlds, here and gone again, out of the darkness, into the darkness: Enterprise goes about her business. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Mirror] Reference
Your book is refreshing because you deal with the multifariousness of ordinary, backbreaking work in all its gory reality, without the filtering prism of the upper or middle classes. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: 'Breathless In Bombay' Author Murzban Shroff Reflects On The Real Mumbai: Exclusive Interview] Reference
At least, that it is would follow from conjoining two features of the human moral situation briefly argued for above: the multifariousness of moral considerations that arise in particular cases and the need and possibility for employing moral principles in sound moral reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Reasoning] Reference
I desire poetical multifariousness, I am a Polytheist. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
Here intervenes the multifariousness of man, pointed out somewhere by. From Wordnik.com. [The Certain Hour] Reference
This multifariousness of pursuit is needed also in the education of the poor. From Wordnik.com. [Friends in Council — First Series] Reference
On the menu, that multifariousness shows up as Italian wedding soup, Turkish kabobs and Moroccan chicken. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Scene] Reference
I wanted to tell you that I think you are quite right, Milverton, in saying a good deal about multifariousness of pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [Friends in Council — First Series] Reference
DF: I'm cheered by Celia's suggestion that the multifariousness of the peace movement is not only inevitable but also strategically useful. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
That sphinx-like presence, with its breasts and claws, that first bald multifariousness, is too discrepant an object for philosophic contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
Whether because of Jeffery West's direction or her own limitations, Gilboa seems incapable of manifesting the multifariousness that would make the character riveting. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
I'm thinking of the constant flow at, for example, where the giddy anticipation for a wide-ranging mix of films from Asia is not only infectious but even baffling at times in its multifariousness. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Kugler says: "In the multifariousness of his powers Titian takes precedence of all other painters of his school; indeed, there is scarcely a line of art which in his long and very active life he did not enrich.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture] Reference
Every end, reason, motive, object of desire or aversion, ground of sorrow or joy that we feel is in the world of finite multifariousness, for only in that world does anything really happen, only there do events come to pass. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
"I have heard, it is true, but my memory is short; and, in the multitude and multifariousness of my professional engagements, I am often led into a forgetfulness of matters less important in their variety, and less -- less various in their importance.". From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
The very multifariousness and complexity of a city government demand the help of minds accustomed to detail and variety of work, to a sense of obligation for the health and welfare of young children, and to responsibility for the cleanliness and comfort of other people. From Wordnik.com. [Women and Public Housekeeping] Reference
But since a soul with many qualities, forming of itself a sort of handy index and pocket congress of all humanity, needs the contact of just as many different men, or subjects, in order to the exhibition of its totality; hence very little indeed of the sage's multifariousness will be portrayed in a simple narrative like the present. From Wordnik.com. [Israel Potter] Reference
Having thus candidly confessed these faults committed as the writer of this book, it is still possible in human multifariousness to consider their enormity, not merely in this book, but in fictional reading-matter at large, as viewed by an average-novel-reader -- by a representative of that potent class whose preferences dictate the nature and main trend of modern American literature. From Wordnik.com. [The Certain Hour] Reference
"As an instance of the multifariousness of his learning, it may be mentioned that long before the Civil War, he had been a profound student of military history and science. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians] Reference
It's a model of multifariousness. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Yglesias asks: "Does This Blog Suck? Do All Blogs Suck?"] Reference
Moreover in the presence of Wagner’s multifariousness, plenitude and arbitrariness, they seem to themselves justified — “saved”. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.] Reference
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