Use culture in a sentence
Sentences starting with culture
- Culture is certain to mock itself in time. [4]
- Culture is the blossom of knowledge, but it is a fruit blossom, the ornament of the age but the seed of the future. [4]
Sentences ending with culture
- But if she wishes to fit herself for the best married life, she may not disdain the help of the cap and gown in devoting herself to the highest culture. [4]
- Books are very well, but books do not cover the whole domain of esthetic human culture. [5]
- The emphasis, however, was laid on liberal culture. [4]
- He is prepared to pronounce on art, manners, all kinds of culture. [4]
- The Brahmins carry this idea into the next life, and say that the departing spirit carries with him nothing except this individual character, no acquirements or information or extraneous culture. [4]
- There have been some changes of late years in the care of criminals, but does public opinion yet everywhere demand that jailers and prison-keepers and executioners of the penal law should be men of refinement, of high character, of any degree of culture? [4]
- Enthusiasm is a sign of inexperience, of ignorance, of want of culture. [4]
- The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealist on the power of Thought and of Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture. [6]
- I was glad of this, for I found that he was an agreeable man, and had distinct originality of ideas, besides being possessed of very considerable culture. [11]
- It is not necessary for me in this presence to dwell upon the value of culture. [4]
Short sentences using culture
- His culture is European. [5]
- Human Culture, 87. [6]
- Culture, 232, 233. [6]
Sentences containing culture two or more times
- I've lived among people of culture, and I've found out that culture chiefly consists of fixed ideas, and obstruction to progress, of hating the President,--of knowing the right people and eating fish with a fork. [9]
- But she sensed, in their presence, from references casually let fall in their conversation, a wider culture of which they were in possession, a culture at once puzzling and exciting, one that she despaired of acquiring for herself. [9]
More example sentences with the word culture in them
- To be sure, you Romans trouble yourselves more about matters of law and administration than the culture of the arts or the subtleties of thought. [10]
- Obviously no animal would be capable of admiring such scenes as the heavens at night, a beautiful landscape, or refined music; but such high tastes are acquired through culture, and depend on complex associations; they are not enjoyed by barbarians or by uneducated persons. [1]
- It was the world in a man--personality, knowledge of life, the culture of the thousand things which make up civilization: it was personality got from life and power in contest with the ordered world. [11]
- We do not wish to attach too much importance to this movement, but rather to suggest to a continent yearning for culture in letters and in speech whether it may not be carried too far. [4]
- Quite likely she will soon find that she needs first a more general culture, and fall, in with thy wish that she should see more of the world at some large school. [5]
- The awkward, uncouth wickedness of remote country-places, where culture has died out after the first crop, is about as disagreeable as the ranker and richer vice of city life, forced by artificial heat and the juices of an overfed civilization. [4]
- The manner in which she combines the highest mental culture with the nicest discharge of feminine duties filled me with admiration; while her affectionate kindness earned my gratitude. [14]
- Without reservoirs of wealth there would be no great universities, schools of science, museums, galleries of art, libraries, solid institutions of charity, and perhaps not the wide diffusion of culture which is the avowed aim of modern civilization. [4]
- The observant stranger was sure to be puzzled by the contrast of this realistic and uncouth exterior with the internal fineness, amounting to refinement and culture, that shone through it all. [4]
- His real life was in the eddy of his many interests, in the field of his superficial culture, in the eyes of the world. [11]
- Her father--for Dudley Venner was her father--looked like a man of culture and breeding, but melancholy and with a distracted air, as one whose life had met some fatal cross or blight. [6]
- And this brought up the subject of culture in America, especially as to manner. [4]
- The writers of universal histories and of the history of culture are like people who, recognizing the defects of paper money, decide to substitute for it money made of metal that has not the specific gravity of gold. [2]
- Those persons are uninteresting, certainly, who have gone so far in culture that they accept conventional standards supposed to be correct, to which they refer everything, and by which they measure everybody. [4]
- Or has he to set about fitting himself for some employment, and gaining that culture, that training of himself, that utilization of his information which will make him necessary in the world? [4]
- I should like to see oyster culture added, and anything else. [5]
- It is difficult to say exactly how culture can extend its influence into places uncongenial and to people indifferent to it, but I will try and illustrate what I mean by an example or two. [4]
- Well, they've begun to introduce the tea culture, here. [5]
- In the Roman time grapes abounded and wine was plenty, but the culture disappeared after the Conquest. [4]
- You know, in these days, when a country begins to introduce the tea culture, it means that its own specialty has gone back on it. [5]
- Progress of Culture, The, 244, 288. [6]
- Dyck's tempestuous nature, the poetry and imagination of him, would quickly respond to French culture, to the new orders of the new day in France. [11]
- He wrote for the people, and the theatre in his day was a popular amusement for the multitude, probably more than it was a recreation for those who enjoyed the culture of letters. [4]
- Now then; as the most valuable capital or culture or education usable in the building of novels is personal experience I ought to be well equipped for that trade. [5]
- I surely have the equipment, a wide culture, and all of it real, none of it artificial, for I don't know anything about books. [5]
- The necessity of the conception of power as an explanation of historical events is best demonstrated by the universal historians and historians of culture themselves, for they professedly reject that conception but inevitably have recourse to it at every step. [2]
- I am sure that the scholar, trained to "plain living and high thinking," knows that the prosperous life consists in the culture of the man, and not in the refinement and accumulation of the material. [4]
- I am aware that it is said that the culture of the age is itself materialistic, and that its refinements are sensual; that there is little to choose between the coarse excesses of poverty and the polished and more decorous animality of the more fortunate. [4]
- And a society that has attained its end in all possible culture, entire refinement in manners, in tastes, in the art of elegant intellectual and luxurious living--is there nothing pathetic in that? [4]
- The fact is that culture in this country is full of surprises, and so doubles and feints and comes back upon itself that the most diligent recorder can scarcely note its changes. [4]
- The difficulty in supposing that, starting with a state of ignorance in 1587, when he is supposed to have come to London, he was induced to enter upon a course of most extended study and mental culture, is almost insuperable. [5]
- Do we often stop to think what influence, direct or other, the scholar, the man of high culture, has today upon the great mass of our people? [4]
- The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts, and "not even in inmost thought to think again the sins that made the past so pleasant to us. [1]
- It is this sort of blind instinct of the young man for preserving himself in the world that makes him so inaccessible to the good he might get from the prevailing culture of the leisure class. [4]
- In time the shark culture will be one of the most successful things in the colony. [5]
- Here was a sense of culture and refinement. [11]
- Thus F. von Schlegel writes: "In those languages which appear to be at the lowest grade of intellectual culture, we frequently observe a very high and elaborate degree of art in their grammatical structure. [1]
- Better informed than Ruth and with a much more varied culture, and bright and sympathetic, he was never weary of her company, if he was not greatly excited by it. [5]
- This series of romances will not only have introduced the reader to a knowledge of the history of manners and culture in Egypt, but will have facilitated his comprehension of certain dominant ideas which stirred the mind of the Ancients. [10]
- What are the relations of culture to common life, of the scholar to the day-laborer? [4]
- What is the relation of culture to it? [4]
- He represents culture, refinement, elevated sentiment, polite life, religion; and by his example he propagates these, and they spread and flourish and bear good fruit. [5]
- Perfect culture has refined all blood, warmth, flavor, out of them. [4]
- At that early period, as Mr. Galton has remarked, almost all the men of a gentle nature, those given to meditation or culture of the mind, had no refuge except in the bosom of a Church which demanded celibacy (28. [1]
- When he is once known, through him opening is made into another little world, into a circle of culture and loving hearts and enthusiasm in a dozen congenial pursuits, and prejudices perhaps. [4]
- The lecture was on the whole acceptable, and a credit to our culture and civilization.--The reporter goes on to state that there will be no lecture next week, on account of the expected combat between the bear and the barbarian. [6]
- Ages of culture on the island have gone deeper than the surface, and they have simpler and more natural manners than we. [4]
- These are some of the ways in which culture can serve men. [4]
- In all branches of culture, their heathen predecessors went far beyond them. [6]
- How the Americans of culture and refinement will admire him for thus speaking in their name! [5]
- Notwithstanding the prevalent notion that the French poets are the sympathetic heirs of classic culture, it appears to me that they are not so imbued with the true classic spirit, art, and mythology as some of our English poets, notably Keats and Shelley. [4]
- If Ruth did not find so much luxury in the house as in her own home, there were evidences of culture, of intellectual activity and of a zest in the affairs of all the world, which greatly impressed her. [5]
- But culture was not a weed that grew overnight; it was a leaven that spread slowly and painfully, first inoculating a few who suffered and often died for it, that it might gradually affect the many. [9]
- There is more nonsense talked about culture than about anything else. [4]
- Now she was no more, and the culture of plants had lost half its charm since her eyes could no longer watch their thriving. [10]
- Certainly, he was never qualified to delineate those fine artificialities of life which we are likely to associate with culture, and perhaps it was something of this sort that caused the hesitation confessed in the letter that follows. [5]
- He has by nature that calmness and indifference which your people of culture have acquired. [4]
- It is a natural gift, and it seems that no amount of culture can attain it, any more than learning can make a poet. [4]
- Yet culture in music certainly distinguishes the civilization of this age. [4]
- Horapollo had been much attracted by the young physician's wide culture and earnest studiousness; he had conceived a warm liking for him, the warmest perhaps that he had ever felt for any fellow-human since the death of his own family. [10]
- Women like the Model are a natural product of a chilly climate and high culture. [6]
- But by what mediation shall the culture that is now the possession of the few be made to leaven the world and to elevate and sweeten ordinary life? [4]
- Is it a means of anything but superficial culture and fragmentary information? [4]
- By culture I mean that fine product of opportunity and scholarship which is to mere knowledge what manners are to the gentleman. [4]
- It seems to me that the millennium is to come by an infusion into all society of a truer culture, which is neither of poverty nor of wealth, but is the beautiful fruit of the development of the higher part of man's nature. [4]
- Culture, like fine manners, is not always the result of wealth or position. [4]
- Or, to put it in still another way, in regard to character and culture generally, the growth of Miss McDonald could be measured by that of Evelyn. [4]
- Jean thinks she is studying too, but I don't know what it is unless it is the horses; she spends the day under their heels in the stables--and that is but a continuation of her Hartford system of culture. [5]
- I suppose it is not altogether the fault of the majority that the true relation of culture to common life is so misunderstood. [4]
- Here was an instance of a democratic culture growing in isolation, resentful of all external interference. [9]
- The sanctuary was indeed the centre of Hellenic culture in the city of Alexander; what marvel then, that the heathen should believe that with the overthrow of Serapis and his temple, the earth, nay the universe itself must sink into the abyss? [10]
- What we seek in him are the primal and original traits, unmixed with the sophistications of society, and unimpaired by the refinements of an artificial culture. [4]
- Potter has no imagination, and no great deal of culture, perhaps, but he has a historical mind and a good memory, and so he is the person I depend upon mainly to post me up when I get back from a scout. [5]
- For the editorial, if it is to hold its place, must be more and more the product of information, culture, and reflection, as well as of sagacity and alertness. [4]
- Speaking so, the historians of culture involuntarily contradict themselves, and show that the new force they have devised does not account for what happens in history, and that history can only be explained by introducing a power which they apparently do not recognize. [2]
- No matter what his culture or ignorance, no matter what his pursuit, no matter what his character, the subject I refer to is one of which he rarely ceases to think, and, if opportunity is offered, to talk. [6]
- It needs the highest culture and the finest breeding to prevent the conversation from running into mere persiflage on the one hand--its common fate--or monologue on the other. [4]
- By simple processes he drew from Gregory his aims and ambitions, and found the real courage and power behind the front of irony--the language of manhood and culture which was crusted by free and easy idioms. [11]
- Yes, and I have shoveled silver tailings in a quartz-mill a couple of weeks, and acquired the last possibilities of culture in that direction. [5]
- They have not half the general culture of the lawyers, nor a quarter of that of the ministers. [6]
- What influence Shakespeare had upon the culture and taste of his own time and upon his immediate audience would be a most interesting inquiry. [4]
- There was a good deal of religion in these rural communities and occasionally some culture. [4]
- The universal historians give contradictory replies to that question, while the historians of culture evade it and answer something quite different. [2]
- The most usual generalizations adopted by almost all the historians are: freedom, equality, enlightenment, progress, civilization, and culture. [2]
- Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom. [2]
- Without his fresh enthusiasm and his gallant devotion to learning, to art, to culture, the world would be dreary enough. [4]
- Howells writes: "In England, rank, fashion, and culture rejoiced in him. [5]
- Such is the effect produced by real manly dignity, superior culture and the consciousness of a right to freedom, on the mind even of a tyrant. [10]
- There is no doubt of the value of manual training as an aid in giving definiteness, directness, exactness to the mind, but mere technical training alone will be barren of those results, in general discriminating culture, which we hope to see in America. [4]
- We have had discussed lately the relation of culture to religion. [4]
- But Froebel's purpose did not require the culture of physical strength. [10]
- This meant the development of a new culture, one to be founded on the American tradition of equality of opportunity. [9]
- It was a culture, in the first place, not harnessed to an obvious Cause: something like that struck her. [9]
- When the sheep culture was introduced, it presently brought famine to the parrot by exterminating a kind of grub which had always thitherto been the parrot's diet. [5]
- It was a culture that contained tolerance and charity, that did not label a portion of mankind as its enemy, but seemed, by understanding all, to forgive all. [9]
- A woman of culture skims over that like a bird, never touching it with the tip of a wing. [4]
- A top-dressing of culture on a field with no depth of soil may for a moment stimulate the promise of vegetation, but no fruit will be produced. [4]
- Even the diamond culture is not without its romantic episodes. [5]
- The spread of culture implied the recognition of leadership: democratic leadership, but still leadership. [9]
- The history of culture explains to us the impulses and conditions of life and thought of a writer or a reformer. [2]
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