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Sentences starting with personality

Personality is nothing but the rehabilitation of the prophet, the seer. [9]
Personality again! [9]

Sentences ending with personality

As often occurs with old men, it was only after some seconds that the impression produced by Prince Andrew's face linked itself up with Kutuzov's remembrance of his personality. [2]
The old Master, whose words I have so frequently quoted and shall quote more of, is a dogmatist who lays down the law, ex cathedra, from the chair of his own personality. [6]
Meantime, Sally Sellers, who was as practical and democratic as the Lady Gwendolen Sellers was romantic and aristocratic, was leading a life of intense interest and activity and getting the most she could out of her double personality. [5]
The service, to which she had objected as archaic, became subordinate, spiritualized, dominated by the personality. [9]
Writing them here was like the bursting of an imprisoned stream; it was relaxing the ceaseless eye of vigilance; freeing an imprisoned personality. [11]
You have a very strong personality. [9]
I suppose it's the man's personality. [9]
Althea, however, declared that the blind man's marriage to Daphne was only a question of time, and Proclus added that the easily excited nephew would show himself more pliant than the uncle if Arsinoe exerted upon him the irresistible charm of her personality. [10]
Do you suppose that I do not continue my relations with the "Cracked Teacup,"--the poor old fellow with whom I have so much in common, whose counterpart, perhaps, you may find in your own complex personality? [6]
Modern, science has taught us this much, at least, that we have by no means fathomed the limits even of a transcendent personality. [9]

Short sentences using personality

By his charming personality? [9]
He was a personality. [9]

Sentences containing personality two or more times

The works of other men live, but their personality dies out of their labors; the poet, who reproduces himself in his creation, as no other artist does or can, goes down to posterity with all his personality blended with whatever is imperishable in his song. [6]
It was as a personality he had moved her--a personality apparently not in harmony with his doctrine. [9]

More example sentences with the word personality in them

A nicer analysis would detect many alien elements mixed with his individuality, but the family traits predominated over all the external influences, and the personality stood out distinct from the common family qualities. [6]
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]
This was the woman whom the world thought composed; who had triumphed over its opposition, compelled it to bow before her; who presented to it that self-possessed, unified personality by which he had been struck at their first meeting. [9]
It was furnished with delightful old-fashioned things that seemed to express, at every turn, the aristocratic and uncompromising personality of the owner who had lived so long in their midst. [9]
May I ask whether you only feel his personality repugnant to you, or whether actual circumstances have given rise to your aversion--nay, if I have judged rightly, to a very bitterly hostile feeling against him? [10]
But his perceptions were as keen as Nelson Langmaid's, and like Langmaid, he had gradually become conscious of a certain baffling personality in the new rector of St. John's. [9]
Quite apart from wealth or position, personality plays a part more powerful than all else in the eyes of every woman who has a soul which has substance enough to exist at all. [11]
For this purpose we placed Cleopatra in the centre of a larger group of people, whom she influences, and who enable her personality to be displayed in the various relations of life. [10]
Mr. Edison is wasting his time in objective experiments, while we are in the deepest ignorance as to our electric personality or our personal electricity. [4]
But now--now there was the old unschooled simplicity, the unique and lonely personality, the homely soul and body bending to one root-idea, losing themselves in a wave of duty. [11]
At first he was almost appalled, for never since life began had his personality been so displayed. [11]
This was why Valmond interested her--not as a man, a physical personality, but as a mystery to be probed, discovered. [11]
I am not vain enough to believe that it was love, that it was solely the spell of my own personality which drew him to me in that disastrous hour. [10]
I have not tried to keep my own personality out of these stories. [6]
It gave a touch of the bizarre to a distinguished head, it lent an air of the singular to a personality which had flare and force--an almost devilish force. [11]
If I choose to write for them, I do no injury to those for whom my personality is an object of indifference. [6]
If it comes to stand between me and the thought, or the personality behind the thought, I grow more and more suspicious. [4]
It was wonderful to see how his single personality pervaded this torpid little village; he seemed to be the centre of all its activities. [6]
His own letter to Howells, later, probably does not give the real reason of his failure, but it will be amusing to those who recall the erratic personality of George Francis Train. [5]
And then occurred to her his explanation of personality as the medium by which all truth is revealed, by which the current of religion, the motive power in all history, is transmitted. [9]
It is easier to go on in the subordination of one's personality to the strictly conventional life. [4]
Nature, who seems to be fond of trios, has given us three dogmatists, all of whom greatly interested their own generation, and whose personality, especially in the case of the first and the last of the trio, still interests us,--Johnson, Coleridge, and Carlyle. [6]
Through it all there was the personality that had been recently so much in her thoughts. [4]
His personality dominated them as aforetime with some new accent to it; his voice was like that of one given up from the dead, yet come back from the wars alive and loving. [11]
The true prophet, the true apostle, then, was one inspired and directed by the Spirit, the laying on of hands was but a symbol,--the symbol of the sublime truth that one personality caught fire from another. [9]
In this article the reader will find a full exposition of the doctrine of plural personality illustrated by striking cases. [6]
He himself felt the pull of the young clergyman's personality, and instinctively strove to resist it: and was more than ever struck by Mr. Hodder's resemblance to the cliff sculpture of which he had spoken at the vestry meeting. [9]
At first, in the Park, I saw only a kindly old gentleman, with a wonderful, restful personality, who had been a dear friend of my mother's. [9]
One must have the mordant in his own personality or he will not take the color of his subject. [6]
But Morgan was the main attraction, the conspicuous personality here; she was head chief of this household, that was plain. [5]
To sum up: The feeling, it is conceded, is not engendered by the mere conduct of the materializee; it is conceded that it does not arise from any pang which the personality of the materializee could assuage. [5]
As he uttered the conventional phrase and took her hand, he asked himself whether her personality justified his interest. [9]
It was not the confessional that attracted her, that was sure; perhaps not altogether the service, though that was soothing in certain moods; but it was the noble personality of Father Damon. [4]
His personality pervaded the characters and times which he portrayed, so that there was a discord between the actor and his costume. [6]
Gradually, out of the chaotic melee in which these titans were engaged had emerged one group more powerful than the rest and more respectable, whose leader was the Personality to whom I have before referred. [9]
They wished heartily that the new rector who had developed this disquieting personality would peacefully resign and leave them to the former, even tenor of their lives. [9]
Yet I apprehend that no person living has any personal regard for Shakespeare, or that his personality affects many,--except they stand in Stratford church and feel a sort of awe at the thought that the bones of the greatest poet are so near them. [4]
I find everywhere that it is a distinctive personality which makes me want to linger round a spot, more than an important historical event. [6]
He knew, also, that he could have no authority, save personality and success. [11]
It was plain that Balashev's personality did not interest him at all. [2]
He recalled his talk with Gerald Whitely, and how his brother-in-law had lost his temper when they had got on the subject of personality . [9]
The moments of suspense were trying to his nerves, and he had a shrewd notion that this making men wait was a favourite manoeuvre of Eldon Parr's; nor had he underrated the benumbing force of that personality. [9]
But I am sure that the likeness of Mademoiselle must be a true one, for it has the stamp of a remarkable personality, though Helene can be only eighteen. [9]
Had that personality suddenly lost its power over him? [9]
Something had been subtracted from his personality which left it poorer, something had been added which made it less appealing. [11]
It is not so with the more dynamic personality of the over-sea citizen. [11]
Nor was she so ignorant of life as such a guarded personality might be thought. [4]
At any rate, so completely did Phelps absorb this paper and this personality that he was popularly known as "Greeley" in the region where he lived. [4]
The matter of simplicity, then, comes into literary style, into building, into dress, into life, individualized always by one's personality. [4]
Did he show signs of a reversion to that other personality, the Chiltern she had not known, yet glimpses of whom she had had? [9]
As she talked, she seemed to be probing the centre of a flower which she had caught from a basket at the window, and her whole personality was alight and vivifying, her good temper and spirit complete. [11]
Mr. Cooke being seen only on rare and fleeting occasions, there gradually got abroad a most curious misconception of that gentleman's character, while over his personality floated a mist of legend which the Celebrity took good care not to dispel. [9]
It had always seemed to Prince Andrew before that he was antipathetic to the Emperor and that the latter disliked his face and personality generally, and in the cold, repellent glance the Emperor gave him, he now found further confirmation of this surmise. [2]
Yet it all seemed to me so futile, despite the wonder of his personality, that I could make nothing of him, and though always fascinated by his character I was held back from exploiting it, because of the hopelessness of it all. [11]
She did not resist her desire for Ditmar because she believed, in the orthodox sense, that it was wrong, but because it involved a loss of self-respect, a surrender of the personality from the very contemplation of which she shrank. [9]
It was a personality which would anywhere have taken place and held it. [11]
It is this personality which gives the final value to every work of art as well as of literature. [4]
Yet, paradoxically, the personality remained,--was more elusive than before. [9]
One cannot fight over the battles of Marengo or Austerlitz with Napoleon without feeling as if he himself had a fractional claim to the victory, so real seems the transfer of his personality into that of the conqueror while he reads. [6]
As he betrayed or revealed his personality in his first novel, so in this first effort in another department of literature he showed in epitome his qualities as a historian and a biographer. [6]
David was at once conscious of a complex personality, of a man in whom two natures fought. [11]
The wrinkled, hospitable old darky actually seemed to radiate something of the personality with which he had so long been associated, and Hodder was conscious of a surge of relief, a return of confidence at sight of him. [9]
I suspect many of us are conscious of a second personality in our complex nature, which has many traits resembling those found in the writers of the letters addressed to Mr. De Horgan. [6]
On the afternoon of the day that old Louis agreed to give him wages, and went to smoke a pipe with the Notary, Charley scribbled down his thoughts on this matter of personality and habit. [11]
From the glory of the crown of hair to the curve of the high instep of a slim foot it was altogether a personality which hinted at history--at tragedy, maybe. [11]
There were periods of calm when it seemed as though a new and bewildered personality were emerging, amazed to find in life a kindly thing, gazing at the world as one new-born. [9]
It had never occurred to her, until now, when she saw him out of the element with which she had always associated him, that Peter Erwin had a personality. [9]
You know I'm not given to sentimentality, but I was never so impressed by the growth in any personality as I was this morning by his. [9]
It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames. [6]
He was a new presence; the personality had a changed significance. [11]
The head and neck, the whole personality, had an air of distinction and destiny. [11]
He was too much absorbed in observing the famous man's personality. [2]
He has a most extraordinary personality. [9]
He commanded by more than official authority--by personality and achievement. [11]
There was, then, more than beauty and wit and great social gift, gaiety and charm, in this delicate personality? [11]
There is no more impressive and revealing moment with man or woman than when you stand in a room empty of their actual presence, but having, in every inch of it, the pervasive influences of the absent personality. [11]
But this intelligent Me, who steps forward as the senior partner in our dual personality, turns out to be a terrible bungler. [3]
Strange as it may seem, an aerial hint of his personality in the far distance always awakens in my mind pleasant remembrances and tender reflections. [6]
For he had managed, in the course of a long political career, to combine in exact proportions these elements which, in the public mind, should up the personality of a chief executive. [9]
He was at least a head taller than any man there, and though he was not so upright as he had been, the lines of his figure were still those of a commanding personality. [11]
But he had learned to look upon himself very much as he would upon an intimate not himself,--upon a different personality. [6]
I shouldn't have known how to change the lights for Margaret, although I think I had as distinct an impression of her personality as had my wife. [4]
Human personality presented itself to Emerson as a passing phase of universal being. [6]
Do not think it was your personality, your looks that induced me to think of you, to listen to you. [11]
Beginning simply enough, it took more and more the character of a rhapsody, until, as if lifted off his feet by the deepened and stronger undercurrent of his thought, the writer dropped his personality and repeated the words which "a certain poet sang" to him. [6]
Yet Emerson's personality is seen in its many intellectual and serious poems, and in the small number of its purely religious selections. [6]
Mr. Brice's personality is prepossessing, his words are spoken sharply, and he has a singular emphasis at times which seems to drive his arguments into the minds of his hearers. [9]
I never get into a very large and lofty saloon without feeling as if I were a weak solution of myself,--my personality almost drowned out in the flood of space about me. [6]
Nor did Alison interrupt his silence, but sat with the stillness which at times so marked her personality, her eyes trustfully fixed on him. [9]
But the man intended no harm to her, for, while she sang, something seemed to smooth away the active evil of his countenance, and to dispel a threatening alertness that marked the whole personality. [11]
And yet--oh paradox!--the instrument continued to improve, to grow stronger, to develop individuality and personality day by day! [9]
There is no influence comparable in human life to the personality of a powerful man, so long as he is present to his generation, or lives in the memory of those who felt his influence. [4]
Fresh from the inevitably deep impressions which her father's personality had stamped upon her, she wondered if Austen could cope with the argument before which she had been so helpless. [9]
What we liked in him, I think, was his simple acceptance of a position that required neither explanation nor apology--a social condition that banished a sense of his own personality, and left him perfectly free to be absolutely truthful. [4]
His personality had impressed itself upon his world, first by its idiosyncrasies and afterwards by its enigmatical excesses. [11]
Sometimes he treats his own personality as interchangeable with objects in nature,--he would put it off like a garment and clothe himself in the landscape. [6]
The rebellion in his own blood against the fine instinct of his Quaker faith and upbringing made him grasp the personality before him. [11]
He suddenly beheld his daughter transformed, a new personality who had been thinking, and thinking along paths which he had never cared to travel. [9]
In spite of his absent-mindedness and good nature, Pierre's personality immediately checked any attempt to ridicule him to his face. [2]
He always held himself in a kind of reserve with his friend, as if he had said, "Let us respect our personality, and not make a 'mess' of friendship. [4]

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