Publicness vs. privateness is an overly reductive metric to use when talking about reform. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A Historic Achievement] Reference
'privateness' with Cobham only concerned business, in which the latter sought to make use of his experience. From Wordnik.com. [Raleigh] Reference
That was part of his privateness because of that midwestern ethic. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2006] Reference
This almost pathological privateness isn't my natural character, but learned behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
"Austerity Britain" confirms George Orwell's famous remark about the privateness of English life. From Wordnik.com. [The Living Was Not Easy] Reference
Maybe it was that quietness and that privateness that caused all this to bottle up inside of him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2007] Reference
If art teaches anything (to the artist, in the first place), it is the privateness of the human condition. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Brodsky - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they, when it were reason; but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays] Reference
The works which concern the seats and places of learning are four — foundations and buildings, endowments with revenues, endowments with franchises and privileges, institutions and ordinances for government — all tending to quietness and privateness of life, and discharge of cares and troubles; much like the stations which Virgil prescribeth for the hiving of bees: — “Principio sedes apibus statioque petenda, Quo neque sit ventis aditus, &c.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
The most serious facet of playing casino online is that it deals high level of privateness and it is extremely suitable for the player. From Wordnik.com. [Ultimi bookmark postati su Segnalo] Reference
Being a stock-listed company of international renown, the cozy privateness of a start-up can't be upheld, especially when failures pile up. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The most decided mark of playing casino online is that it offers high level of privateness and it is unquestionably suitable for the player. From Wordnik.com. [Ultimi bookmark postati su Segnalo] Reference
Then a complete stranger intrudes into her most vulnerable core of privateness, her sexuality, and tries to claim ownership and access as an intruder. From Wordnik.com. [Qwaider Planet] Reference
A mans nature is best perceived in privateness, for there is no affectation; in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts; and in a new case or experiment, for there custom leaveth him. From Wordnik.com. [XXXVIII. Of Nature in Men] Reference
The derogations therefore which grow to learning from the fortune or condition of learned men, are either in respect of scarcity of means, or in respect of privateness of life and meanness of employments. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
What it does link up with, however, is another English characteristic which is so much a part of us that we barely notice it, and that is the addiction to hobbies and spare-time occupations, the privateness of English life. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion and the Unicorn] Reference
Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason; but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Of Great Place] Reference
With the possible exception of Ronald Reagan, whose fabled aloofness and privateness were probably signs of a deep introverted streak (many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors), introverts are not considered "naturals" in politics. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The works which concern the seats and places of learning are four -- foundations and buildings, endowments with revenues, endowments with franchises and privileges, institutions and ordinances for government -- all tending to quietness and privateness of life, and discharge of cares and troubles; much like the stations which Virgil prescribeth for the hiving of bees. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
A man’s nature is best perceived in privateness, for there is no affectation; in passion, for that putteth a man out of his precepts; and in a new case or experiment, for there custom leaveth him. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays] Reference
Art, Brodsky said in his Nobel Lecture in 1987, is about "the privateness of human condition": "Being the most ancient as well as the most literal form of private enterprise, it fosters in a man, knowingly or unwittingly, a sense of his uniqueness, of individuality, or separateness — thus turning him from a social animal into an autonomous 'I.'. From Wordnik.com. [A World Fiercely Observed] Reference
To a surprising extent Kynaston’s entire, intricate portrait of British society can be summed up in Orwell’s sweeping generalization: in a famous passage in The Lion and the Unicorn defining the English character (not quoted in Austerity Britain), Orwell wrote of a characteristic which is so much a part of us that we barely notice it, and that is … the privateness of English life. From Wordnik.com. [Waste Not, Want Everything] Reference
The privateness of a garage is ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Goals] Reference
The unobserved privateness of the family. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
(5) And for the conceit that learning should dispose men to leisure and privateness, and make men slothful: it were a strange thing if that which accustometh the mind to a perpetual motion and agitation should induce slothfulness, whereas, contrariwise, it may be truly affirmed that no kind of men love business for itself but those that are learned; for other persons love it for profit, as a hireling that loves the work for the wages; or for honour, as because it beareth them up in the eyes of men, and refresheth their reputation, which otherwise would wear; or because it putteth them in mind of their fortune, and giveth them occasion to pleasure and displeasure; or because it exerciseth some faculty wherein they take pride, and so entertaineth them in good-humour and pleasing conceits towards themselves; or because it advanceth any other their ends. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
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