Word: commendability
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Right Reverend Doctor Slattery and his committee, all mere men, seem to have approached their task of revision with prayer and fasting. They seem to have sensed the truth of the old Italian proverb: "In buying a horse or taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to the Lord." In asking that the word obey be removed from the marriage service they explain that their purpose is to put the Church in touch with present day life, and then they naively add: "We are thus trying to make the service conform to the truth...
...Paris, Futurist composers have written parts for new instruments, equipped their orchestras with droners, groaners, gobblers, ululators, strideurs, éclateurs, bourdonneurs, glouglouteurs, hululeurs. Critics commend the crepiteur for the clarity of his saccades...
...sound upon opaque materials, the shape of horns for acoustic instruments, the assembling of receptive membranes and marine microphones, as well as the first oscillographs of propellor vibrations. He is also responsible for an important study of musical acoustics, the significance of which led the French government to commend him and recommend his pursuance of the subject...
...said that once a fly lit upon the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Crawling across one of the seamlike connections, he flew away to tell the other flies that he had discovered a terrible defect in this, the greatest work of Sir Christopher Wren. I commend this story to General Dawes...
...Finances in those days were a problem. Once Lawrence Barrett played six tragedies in a week and made $3.46. Edwin Booth in his best days was glad to make $1000 in one week, and that covered expenses of his whole company. I commend the theatre to you in both its past and its present for instruction as well as amusement...