It was the very boundlessness of his desires which reined him in. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Old Shep: Tallulah demonstrates the boundlessness of her affection 1951. From Wordnik.com. [Miniseries #5: Carry on, Tallulah] Reference
She sensed an expanse of freedom before her, and the boundlessness of it excited her. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
Closely connected to the boundlessness and unpredictability of action is its irreversibility. From Wordnik.com. [Hannah Arendt] Reference
Therefore, somewhere in the boundlessness of reality, anything you can imagine must actually exist!. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
I am constantly amazed by the boundlessness of my own ignorance, but your career will come with time. From Wordnik.com. [On Being Impotent in My Field] Reference
Blanchot argues, comes in his gaze which breaks these codes, setting night into its full boundlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Dotys 'Nocturne in Black and Gold'] Reference
Everyone is constantly seeking boundlessness, including those who consider themselves thoroughly nonspiritual. From Wordnik.com. [Dean Sluyter: Spirituality ��� Belief] Reference
I stared out of the window at the aquamarine horizon, dazzled by its purity of color, its sheer boundlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Temptation] Reference
And within this awareness -- its essential nature -- is heaven, nirvana, enlightenment, truth, joy, boundlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Dean Sluyter: Spirituality ��� Belief] Reference
She enters a realm of boundlessness which the speaker, a few lines later, tries on "like mutable, starry clothes" (59-60). From Wordnik.com. [Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Dotys 'Nocturne in Black and Gold'] Reference
Under the often misused word 'freedom' and her flag one falls too readily into boundlessness, unrestraint, self-exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
What Walzer is pointing to is the inherent boundlessness of an argument for proportionality that includes the element of preemption. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Schweber: On Proportionality] Reference
Its content of Reason-Principles, then, must be limitless, unless there be a periodical renovation bounding the boundlessness by the return of. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
The good news is that you don't have to laboriously chip away at all your egotism (talk about work!) in order to eventually reveal the underlying boundlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Dean Sluyter: Emily Dickinson and the Buddha vs. the WWF] Reference
True greatness too is characterized by a boundlessness of benevolence. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M.] Reference
On Valentine's Day, reflecting on the limits and boundlessness of a father's love. From Wordnik.com. [Tablet Magazine]
This helps me see more clearly the absolute boundlessness of God's unconditional love. From Wordnik.com. [Mommy Life] Reference
But notice, in the next place, the boundlessness of all these characteristics of the divine nature. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference
Adventurers from all the earth rushing to the gold mines passed over unpeopled plains of seeming boundlessness. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Commonwealth] Reference
That which has delighted to excel in boundlessness within the bounds of this one leaf, has also transformed the whole forest. From Wordnik.com. [Hills and the Sea] Reference
Roman superstition, and modern Roman boundlessness of ignorance, what bewildering worlds of unsuspected wonders I would discover!. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocents Abroad] Reference
Slaveholders sought to impress their slaves with a belief in the boundlessness of slave territory, and of their own limitless power. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement; His Labors in Great Britain as Well as in His Own Country; His Experience in the Conduct of an Influential Newspaper; His Connection with the Underground Railroad; His Relations with John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid; His Recruiting the 54th and 55th Mass. Colored Regiments; His Interviews with Presidents Lincoln and Johnson; His Appointment by Gen. Grant to Accompany the Santo Domingo Commission--Also to a Seat in the Council of the District of Columbia; His Appointment as United States Marshal by President R. B. Hayes; Also His Appointment to Be Recorder of Deeds in Washington by President J. A. Garfield; with Many Other Interesting and Important Events of His Most Eventful Life; With an Introduction by Mr. George L. Ruffin, of Boston] Reference
Our course has been marked upon the wing of time, which, in its ever onward flight, has sped past us, toward the boundlessness of eternity. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History] Reference
Every slaveholder seeks to impress his slave with a belief in the boundlessness of slave territory, and of his own almost illimitable power. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference
She found herself imagining the storms that sweep the lake in winter, measuring her frail life against the loneliness and boundlessness around her. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Merton, Colonist] Reference
The boundlessness, the choice, the sense of being far from home but fed, of wanting to be grown-up enough to shop and cook for yourself but not yet. From Wordnik.com. [East Bay Express] Reference
Let it be remembered that the Kaiser chafes at barriers of every kind, and that there is a boundlessness in his nature at times trying to his patience. From Wordnik.com. [East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan] Reference
And so the merely human beginning grows into what is more and more visibly superhuman, dying into boundlessness and glory, as the sun when it sets in the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
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