Use absolute in a sentence
Sentences starting with absolute
- Absolute equality is seen to depend upon absolute supremacy of the state. [4]
- Absolute attention and petrified retention to the end of an act of the attitude assumed at the beginning of it. [5]
- Absolute faith had been her serenity. [13]
- Absolute equality might be better, but so far as we can see, the law of the universe is infinite diversity in unity; and variety in condition is the essential of what we call progress--it is, in fact, life. [4]
Sentences ending with absolute
- But there was silence now--silence absolute. [5]
- The commonest mode of misrepresentation was this: qualified propositions, the whole meaning of which depended on the qualifications, were stripped of these and taken as absolute. [6]
- In Bermuda metaphor it stands for perfection--perfection absolute. [5]
- She had lived in that empire: in it his word had stood for authority, his genius had been worshipped, his decrees had been absolute. [9]
- The thing is impossible, for the Science is absolute. [5]
- His respect for her was undoubted; his love for her was unquestioned; his trust in her was absolute. [4]
- This is not conjecture; it is founded on the absolute. [5]
- It bewildered him by hampering a ruthlessness hitherto absolute. [9]
- And secrecy must be observed--secrecy profound and absolute. [5]
- His power seemed almost Napoleonic; his imperturbability was absolute. [11]
Short sentences using absolute
- It's the absolute truth. [5]
- We became absolute strangers. [9]
- The proof was absolute now. [11]
- She started forward--into absolute darkness. [11]
Sentences containing absolute two or more times
- This, at least, was all hers, without clause or reservation, an absolute love, and an absolute right. [11]
- So here was the novelty of a king without a keeper, an absolute monarch who was absolute in sober truth and not by a fiction of words. [5]
- There is no absolute or essential superiority on the one side, or absolute or essential inferiority on the other side. [4]
- It does make absolute equality, and there is no fiction about it; while over yonder the inequality, (by decree of the infinitely feeble, and consent of the infinitely strong,) is also absolute--as real and absolute as our equality. [5]
More example sentences with the word absolute in them
- I have needed you all my life--one in whom h might have absolute faith. [9]
- No; but I would have criminals believe, and society believe, that in going to prison a man or woman does not pass an absolute line and go into a fixed state. [4]
- I will begin with the largest fact and with the most absolute and universally encountered limitation. [3]
- See, Sheila, I will tell you the whole truth now--aye, the whole absolute truth. [11]
- In that moment, while he still held her hand, she experienced the greatest joy that woman ever knows--the bliss of absolute surrender. [4]
- I loved to watch her, for with me she was ever her own absolute self, free from all artifice, lost in her perfect naturalness: a healthy, perfect soundness, a primitive simplicity beneath the artifice of usual life. [11]
- A sixth group was talking absolute nonsense. [2]
- In it speech was restricted to absolute truth, iron-bound truth, implacable and uncompromising truth, let the resulting consequences be what they might. [5]
- But Elise Malboir was life itself, absolute, true, abiding. [11]
- The society of Vienna was at that time, and I believe is still, the absolute reverse of that of England, where all claims to distinction are recognized and welcomed. [6]
- A time of trembling, of doubt, of awful uneasiness followed, for non-success meant absolute ruin and nothing short of it. [5]
- In general the trait of Speranski's mentality which struck Prince Andrew most was his absolute and unshakable belief in the power and authority of reason. [2]
- I soon found, too, that he had no ideas whatever on the value of discretion, and it was only by repeated threats of absolute failure that I prevented our secret tactics from becoming the property of his sporting fraternity and of the town. [9]
- Understanding at once to whom she alluded, Prince Vasili said in a whisper: "I know for a fact that Kutuzov made it an absolute condition that the Tsarevich should not be with the army. [2]
- She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition. [11]
- Some persons seem to think that absolute truth, in the form of rigidly stated propositions, is all that conversation admits. [6]
- So he spoke to them with absolute frankness. [10]
- It was marvellous to see how this untutored man, by mere self-discipline and the chastening of his own spirit, had outgrown all meretricious arts, and found his own way to the grandeur and strength of absolute simplicity. [7]
- He had been to see a rural American play, an exhibition of country life and character, constructed in absolute disregard of any traditions of the stage. [4]
- Now, it seems to me that the transmutation of the crude and heretofore unpoetical materials which he found in the New World into what is as absolute a creation as exists in literature, was a distinct work of the imagination. [4]
- When he came to himself, there was absolute silence round him-deathly, oppressive silence. [11]
- When he went to her, after he was released" (here I thought it best to depart from any close resemblance to Mrs. Falchion's own story), "and was admitted to her, she treated him as an absolute stranger--as one who had intruded, and might be violent. [11]
- There is going to be absolute seclusion here --a hermit life, in fact. [5]
- Perhaps it applied to an old age, gratified to the end by possession of everything that selfishness covets, and hardened into absolute worldliness. [4]
- We must shine to a few brothers, as palms or pines or roses among common weeds, not from greater absolute value, but from a more convenient nature. [6]
- And in that time my absolute and necessary expenses have been scorchingly heavy--for I have now less than three thousand six hundred dollars in bank out of the eight or nine thousand I have made during those months, lecturing. [5]
- What I have thought was true love, and its true passion, helped me to forget the degradation and the secret shame--only the absolute honesty of that love could make me forget. [11]
- And more than this, read nine of these cases, which he has published, as I have just done, and observe the absolute nullity of aconite, belladonna, and bryonia, against the symptoms over which they are pretended to exert such palpable, such obvious, such astonishing influences. [3]
- He has used this doctrine as a part of the machinery of his story without pledging his absolute belief in it to the extent to which it is asserted or implied. [6]
- Will you do this at once, or will you compel me to show you the absolute necessity of your doing it, at the expense of pain to both of us? [6]
- For an instant there was absolute stillness. [11]
- For a moment there was absolute silence, in which the chairman adjusted his glasses and fumbled with the agenda paper in his confusion, scarcely knowing what to do. [11]
- When he ended there was absolute silence for a moment. [11]
- First of all, there is one faculty which a pilot must incessantly cultivate until he has brought it to absolute perfection. [5]
- The more absolute the submission demanded, the stronger the temptation becomes to those who have been long tossed among doubts and conflicts. [6]
- So far as the Saturnians can be said to have any pride in anything, it is in the absolute level which characterizes their political and social order. [6]
- The individuals of the same species graduate in intellect from absolute imbecility to high excellence. [1]
- Now, you see, the point that people don't understand is the absolute and utter humility of science, in opposition to this doctrinal self-sufficiency. [6]
- Nothing will check the lynchings and ruler-murder but absolute silence --the absence of pow-pow about them. [5]
- He played with the incommunicable, the inconceivable, the absolute, the antinomies, as he would have played with a bundle of jack-straws. [6]
- But she knew the father's absolute sincerity; she felt she had already said too much; and she only murmured, as if to herself, "If we could only know. [4]
- The Constitution authorizes the Executive to grant or withhold the pardon at his own absolute discretion, and this includes the power to grant on terms, as is fully established by judicial and other authorities. [7]
- As he entered the chamber but now, there flashed into his mind the scene six years ago when, an absolute stranger, he had stepped into this Eastern salon, and had heard his name called out to the great throng: "Claridge efendi! [11]
- Perhaps it is the absolute idleness of the community that makes it so interesting. [4]
- He knew now that, whatever Frank's wife was, she would not have an absolute enemy here; for when Marion cried her heart was soft. [11]
- Actually he wished that the absolute necessity had presented itself before. [11]
- He finally intimated that one guard would be sufficient to protect us, but that that one was an absolute necessity. [5]
- We did not tarry long to observe it, but hurried on to the home of the Latter-Day Saints, the stronghold of the prophets, the capital of the only absolute monarch in America--Great Salt Lake City. [5]
- Dr. Brooke had taken matters in his own hands and ordered an absolute rest, after dwelling at some length on the vicious pace set by modern business and the lack of consideration and knowledge shown by men of affairs for their bodies. [9]
- We have a supreme day--a sweeping and tremendous and tumultuous day, a day which commands an absolute universality of interest and excitement; but it is not annual. [5]
- Some of their superstitions have lingered in practical medicine to the present day, but chemistry has grown wise enough to confess the fact of absolute ignorance. [3]
- It was either success or absolute destruction. [11]
- Even Aunt Easter stepped gingerly, though she was wont to affirm, when assisting Miss Jinny in her toilet, an absolute contempt for Ben's commands. [9]
- Good feeling helps society to make liars of most of us,--not absolute liars, but such careless handlers of truth that its sharp corners get terribly rounded. [6]
- His intuitive perception, so necessary in his work, was very fine: he appeared to get at the core of a patient's trouble, and to decide upon necessary action with instant and absolute confidence. [11]
- It would be so easy to fetch it across; but Voban, as you see, is not a man of absolute conviction. [11]
- The days got shorter and shorter, and we were sometimes eighteen hours in absolute darkness. [11]
- Some day, when she should feel sure that desire had ceased to throb, when she should have acquired an unshakable and absolute resignation, she would see him. [9]
- At breakfast, which she shared with her country people and their little daughter, Katterle would have liked to learn how Wolff reached the fortress, but the gatekeeper maintained absolute silence on this subject. [10]
- He had neither self-consciousness nor fear; and while not possessed of absolute tact in a social way, he had a knack of doing the right thing bluntly, or the wrong thing with an air of rightness. [11]
- It will be said, it is said, that it is impossible for the author to obtain an acknowledgment of absolute right of property in his brain work. [4]
- If so, I repeat my request of an absolute retraction of all offensive allusions contained therein in relation to my private character and standing. [7]
- The most absolute quiet must reign there. [10]
- I thought this question might perhaps bring il disiato riso, the long-wished-for smile, but the Scarabee interpreted it in the simplest zoological sense, and neglected its hint of playfulness with the most absolute unconsciousness, apparently, of anything not entirely serious and literal. [6]
- On this whole proposition, including the appropriation of money with the acquisition of territory, does not the expediency amount to absolute necessity--that without which the government itself cannot be perpetuated? [7]
- The absolute truth probably was that she regretted it, and had moments of sentimental unhappiness; but there is great compensation for such loss in the feeling of freedom to pursue a career that is more and more agreeable. [4]
- Its success, its possibility, must lie in its absolute separateness, with obscurity behind--as though he had come out of nothing into this very room, on that winter morning when memory returned. [11]
- A thing of perfect beauty and of absolute finish in every detail, it might pass for the work of genii who knew naught of the weaknesses and ills with which mankind are beset. [5]
- A thing of perfect beauty and absolute finish--5. [5]
- The most absolute peace begins upon its threshold--who knows where it ends? [10]
- Warning words had passed among the few invincible ones who waited where the Healer must pass into the open, and there was absolute stillness as Laura advanced. [11]
- It was the only thing that had not passed into the absolute possession and control of Mavick. [4]
- This absolute crew, only of the Elect, holding all (but such as themselves) reprobates and castaways, now made more haste to return to Babel, as they termed England, than stay to enjoy the land they called Canaan. [4]
- The battle goes on everywhere throughout civilization; but here, here, here is the broad white flag flying which proclaims, first of all, peace and good-will to men, and, next to that, the absolute, unconditional spiritual liberty of each individual immortal soul! [6]
- Pfuel was one of those hopelessly and immutably self-confident men, self-confident to the point of martyrdom as only Germans are, because only Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion--science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. [2]
- Whatever the outcome of this communion, she felt that there must be absolute truth between them. [9]
- During many years of close intercourse, in which he constantly gave utterance to his views both of men and things with absolute unreserve, I recall no disparaging opinion ever expressed of any writer with whom he had been compared either for praise or blame. [4]
- But Elsie was never so much given to roaming over The Mountain as at this season; and as she had grown more absolute and uncontrollable, she was as like to take the night as the day for her rambles. [6]
- Besides, the absolute neglect into which the Tractors soon declined is good evidence that they were incapable of affording any considerable and permanent relief in the complaints for the cure of which they were applied. [3]
- But take the names of its contributors during its first fifty years from the literary record of that period, and we should have but a meagre list of mediocrities, saved from absolute poverty by the genius of two or three writers like Irving and Cooper. [6]
- He dwelt very much upon the relief this would be to him, and the opportunity it would give her in many emergencies, and the absolute confidence he had in her discretion, as well as in her quick sympathy with the suffering about them. [4]
- There never was much sense in giving a gallant fellow a big speaking-trumpet to carry home to aid him in his intercourse with his family; and the festive ice-pitcher has become a too universal sign of absolute devotion to the public interest. [4]
- Why had he more than once during that period, for the first time in his life, questioned a hitherto absolute satisfaction in his position of chief counsel for the Northeastern Railroads? [9]
- No one saw more distinctly the absolute necessity of its fullest recognition in a moneymaking age and in a money-making land, if the spread of the dry rot of moral deterioration were to be prevented. [4]
- There was a moment's absolute silence, and then she said, with cold condescension: "By what privilege do you seek our presence? [11]
- I tried every method short of absolute rudeness to change the subject, and went from silence to taciturnity and back again to silence. [9]
- I don't suppose men talk absolute history in delirium, but there is no reason, I fancy, why they shouldn't paraphrase. [11]
- It is a matter of absolute certainty that it is a disturbing element. [7]
- It is a man's true self, so that it follows that absolute, supreme self-reliance is the law of his being. [6]
- To the last man, so far as known, they have successfully resisted the traitorous efforts of those whose commands, but an hour before, they obeyed as absolute law. [7]
- Of course we made an absolute failure of it. [9]
- A woman who loves a man very much is not quick to take in the absolute declaration of that man's love on the instant; it is too wonderful for her. [11]
- According to the load the vehicle is expected to carry, they are few or many, stout or slender, but they share their joint labor with absolute justice,--not one does more, not one does less, than its just proportion. [6]
- What the mathematician knows being absolute, unconditional, incapable of suffering question, it should tend, in the nature of things, to breed a despotic way of thinking. [6]
- The more positive knowledge we gain, the more we incline to question all that has been received without absolute proof. [3]
- Yes, yes, I know that the evidence is all against me, but I speak the absolute truth. [11]
- Take as an item novels, the works of fiction, which have become an absolute necessity in the modern world, as necessary to divert the mind loaded with care and under actual strain as to fill the vacancy in otherwise idle brains. [4]
- The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth--science--which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth. [2]
- Senator Dilworthy, it is understood, is inflexibly opposed to any arrangement that will not give the government absolute control. [5]
- Of course there is no such thing as absolute value in this world. [4]
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