And there was the com - pletely tacit arrangement with Sally, which had a solid sort of satisfactoriness about it. From Wordnik.com. [Space Platform]
Hereon they dispute about the merit and satisfactoriness of those works, with their condignity of the reward of eternal life. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
The ingenuity and satisfactoriness of the method must be admitted by all who give it a trial, and it is interesting to conjecture how it may have arisen. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
This mountain has frequently been ascended, although there is no regular path leading to the summit, but the thick growth of wood on the top greatly hinders the satisfactoriness of the view. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
This last point relates to a passing remark made by St Paul in Romans 14.4 about refraining from judging another believer: you are not entitled to assess the satisfactoriness of the behaviour of someone else's slave. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop - Religious Faith and Human Rights] Reference
Well, sir, all hass passed off with the utmost satisfactoriness. From Wordnik.com. [A Hanging] Reference
And there was the arrangement with Sally, which had a solid satisfactoriness about it. From Wordnik.com. [Space Platform] Reference
But it was never to be; and the want of satisfactoriness is, that after all the money never gets to him. '. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
But satisfactoriness is a subjective term, just as idea is; and truth is generally regarded as 'objective.'. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
Like Dewey and like Schiller, I have had to say that the truth of an idea is determined by its satisfactoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
Interior, the Commission reserving to itself the right to decide as to the satisfactoriness of such certificates. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland] Reference
He wondered at its satisfactoriness on the whole, inasmuch as Orange had not seen fit to consult him on the point. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference
If these work out with moderate satisfactoriness, we are content to suppose that our assumptions have been confirmed. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
What constituted the satisfactoriness of the whole affair was its essential unlovingness and friendly want of emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Britling Sees It Through] Reference
‘why, Lord save us! when we come to take it to pieces, bit by bit, where’s the satisfactoriness of the money as yet?. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
'And speaking of satisfactory,' pursued Mr Boffin, 'why, Lord save us! when we come to take it to pieces, bit by bit, where's the satisfactoriness of the money as yet?. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
It would take years to work the thing and get down to the footing of one water supply and an ambidextrous dustman on the lines of perfect justice and satisfactoriness all round. From Wordnik.com. [What is Coming?] Reference
If the reality assumed were cancelled from the pragmatist's universe of discourse, he would straightway give the name of falsehoods to the beliefs remaining, in spite of all their satisfactoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
Their direction constitutes the idea's reference to that reality, their satisfactoriness constitutes its adaptation thereto, and the two things together constitute the 'truth' of the idea for its possessor. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
It was now too late to think of getting rid of her: that would be but her signal to disclose whatever she had seen, and so not merely enjoy a sweet revenge, but account with clear satisfactoriness for her dismissal. From Wordnik.com. [The Marquis of Lossie] Reference
This pragmatist talk about truths in the plural, about their utility and satisfactoriness, about the success with which they 'work,' etc., suggests to the typical intellectualist mind a sort of coarse lame second-rate makeshift article of truth. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
Readers who admit that satisfactoriness is our only MARK of truth, the only sign that we possess the precious article, will still say that the objective relation between idea and object which the word 'truth' points to is left out of my account altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
How any woman can live for sixty years in the world, as Mrs. Riddell has, a wife and mother at that, and not get some realization of the beauty and general satisfactoriness of a real and abiding love, is something I cannot understand and never shall be able to. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908] Reference
Of course, if you take the satisfactoriness concretely, as something felt by you now, and if, by truth, you mean truth taken abstractly and verified in the long run, you cannot make them equate, for it is notorious that the temporarily satisfactory is often false. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
Yet at each and every concrete moment, truth for each man is what that man 'troweth' at that moment with the maximum of satisfaction to himself; and similarly, abstract truth, truth verified by the long run, and abstract satisfactoriness, long-run satisfactoriness, coincide. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
The reader will compare them with the number, the variety, the closeness, and the satisfactoriness, of the instances which are to be set against them; and he will remember the scantiness, in many cases, of our intelligence, and that difficulties always attend imperfect information. From Wordnik.com. [Evidence of Christianity] Reference
“Well, sir, all hass passed off with the utmost satisfactoriness. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
But it was never to be; and the want of satisfactoriness is, that after all the money never gets to him.’. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
Under critical scrutiny, then, the Mohists 'explanation of benefit seems promising ” there may well be a connection, perhaps even a necessary one, between benefit and some form of psychological satisfactoriness ” but it probably needs to be revised or developed further. From Wordnik.com. [Mohist Canons] Reference
Unlike his great predecessor, Dr. Workman, a former hardware salesman who relished the opportunity to display his technical expertise in print, Clark self-consciously insisted on describing such things verbally, while deprecating such descriptions as inadequate, and appealing to the satisfactoriness of a result which he begged us to take on the authority of his word. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
Of course he began by touching upon his early boyhood, and some of the incidents of the same spent here in old Lancaster, the place of his nativity; told of his incipient struggles in life with the rod and chain on an engineer corps in the Muskingum valley; how he was ushered into the sterner vicissitudes of life, and how he drifted into politics; and then, without using the occasion for party purposes, without making a political speech, he explained in well selected language his position as an officer of the government; what was the course prescribed for him to do, how he was doing it, and concluding with a most clear and intelligible exegesis of the resumption act; what it was, its intent, purpose and meaning; and with convincing nicety and clearness, and evident satisfactoriness, was his explanation given, that he was frequently interrupted by spontaneous applause from the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
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