Use popular in a sentence
Sentences starting with popular
- Popular wrath does not continue to boil, and many changes will take place in the year before the Legislature meets again. [9]
- Popular sovereignty, by his own words, does not pertain to the few persons who wander upon the public domain in violation of law. [7]
- Popular sovereignty! [7]
Sentences ending with popular
- It looked a wayfarer, like its patrons the river-drivers, with whom it was most popular. [11]
- In America it was equally popular. [6]
- And Evelyn was told that this was one of the penalties a man paid for being popular. [4]
- It is evident, therefore, that Father Damon was dangerously near to being popular. [4]
- For the moment the Lavilettes were popular. [11]
- They instantly became popular. [9]
- She was even popular. [4]
- He was not popular. [11]
- He was a poor Irish peer, with no wide circle of acquaintance, come of a family none too popular. [11]
- I tried it once or twice, but it was not popular. [5]
Short sentences using popular
- What is popular sovereignty? [7]
- He called it Popular Sovereignty. [7]
- The first is popular sovereignty. [7]
- And the new popular song? [5]
- Everlasting popular sovereignty! [7]
Sentences containing popular two or more times
- The exhibition of works of genius will slowly instruct and elevate the popular taste, and in time the cultivated popular taste will reject mediocrity and demand better things. [4]
- So let us stick to this popular sovereignty,--this insidious popular sovereignty. [7]
- In this depressed state of the classical market, Mrs Jarley made extraordinary efforts to stimulate the popular taste, and whet the popular curiosity. [12]
- One was to show, if possible, that the men of our Revolutionary times were in favor of his popular sovereignty, and the other was to show that the Dred Scott decision had not entirely squelched out this popular sovereignty. [7]
- While in this manner he exercised an ever-increasing influence upon the popular understanding, his sympathetic nature endeared him more and more to the popular heart. [7]
- The popular heroine appears on the street in a hundred imitations as soon as the popular mind apprehends her traits in the story. [4]
- It succeeded to a degree which could not fail to gratify any one who would rather have a wide audience than a contracted one, who believes that to be popular is not necessarily to be contemptible--as the ancient Pistol put it, "base, common and popular. [11]
- I say this "Douglas popular sovereignty"; for there is a broad distinction, as I now understand it, between that article and a genuine popular sovereignty. [7]
More example sentences with the word popular in them
- Keep that in your mind and you can make a popular newspaper. [4]
- Mr. Monroe was young, witty, lively, popular with people he met. [9]
- More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations, none in our home popular sentiment, none in our white military force, no loss by it any how, or anywhere. [7]
- When it was written I should not have known what was a popular theme. [11]
- Or, in other words, what effect is popular education having upon the general intellectual habit and taste? [4]
- It is no wonder, therefore, that he was not a popular favorite, although recognized as having very brilliant qualities. [6]
- She was a woman of the people, to adopt a popular phrase. [4]
- History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions, but always in place of them have come realizations more astonishing than the wildest fancies of the dreamers. [4]
- He has a whole lot of assurance, an air of knowing what he's talking about, and apparently he doesn't give a continental whether he's popular or not. [9]
- And going the whole figure, I have no doubt, would be more popular with some thoughtless people than that which has been done, But I cannot assume this reckless position, nor allow others to assume it on my responsibility. [7]
- But popular opinion, when once aroused, will draw a grunt from the most grudging. [9]
- The United States were rescued from the false predicament in which they had been from the beginning, and the great popular heart leaped with new enthusiasm for "Liberty and Union, henceforth and forever, one and inseparable. [7]
- I have no wealthy or popular relations or friends to recommend me. [7]
- But even if we fail to technically restore the compromise, it is still a great point to carry a popular vote in favor of the restoration. [7]
- Then all the way down from the capital to the city ward, we shall have vital popular government, free action, discussion, agitation, life. [4]
- Its natural course was to try for admission into some one of the popular magazines: into "The Sifter," the most fastidious of them all; if that declined it, into "The Second Best;" and if that returned it, into "The Omnivorous. [6]
- Mr. Jeff Thompson was the most popular engineer who could be found for this work. [5]
- Tom's Eastern polish was not popular among the young people. [5]
- The codling told us that a Rebel spy had been caught trying its fords a little while ago, and was now at Camp Curtin with a heavy ball chained to his leg,--a popular story, but a lie, Dr. Wilson said. [6]
- Afterward we walked up and down one of the most popular streets for some time, enjoying other people's comfort and wishing we could export some of it to our restless, driving, vitality-consuming marts at home. [5]
- Although the newspaper unavoidably gives currency to some of these, it is the great corrector of popular rumors. [4]
- It is perfectly true that Mr. Motley did not illustrate the popular type of politician. [6]
- We have seen to-day that every shade of popular opinion is represented here, with Freedom, or rather Free Soil, as the basis. [7]
- And, then, as to the wisdom of the popular decisions by the ballot in this country. [4]
- I merely desire to say that my unimportant adventure is not narrated in answer to the popular demand, and I do not wish to be held responsible for its variation from the typical character of such experiences. [4]
- It is needless to say he is not popular now on Back River. [5]
- When we came to Munich, the great annual fair was in progress; and the large Maximilian Platz (not to be confounded with the street of that name) was filled with booths of cheap merchandise, puppet-shows, lottery shanties, and all sorts of popular amusements. [4]
- It meant nothing to him to be the father of the most popular man in college. [9]
- He then seeks to give a reason that would not apply to his popular sovereignty in the Territories. [7]
- It never occurred to General Cass to call his discovery by the odd name of popular sovereignty. [7]
- It is ventured to affirm this even of Virginia and Tennessee; for the result of an election held in military camps, where the bayonets are all on one side of the question voted upon, can scarcely be considered as demonstrating popular sentiment. [7]
- It is popular to admire the Arno. [5]
- If at any time there was any idea that it could be controlled only by those who represented names honored for a hundred years, or conspicuous by any social privilege, the idea was swamped in popular feeling. [4]
- At the same time he did some hurried, nervous things that had a popular charm, and that sold in plaster reproductions, to the profit of another. [8]
- Out of these three points--drawing within the range of popular sovereignty the question of the Lecompton Constitution--he makes his principal assault. [7]
- There is in this some thing so repugnant to humanity, so uncharitable, so cold-blooded and feelingless, that it, never did nor ever can enlist the enthusiasm of a popular cause. [7]
- He therefore launched this shaft of ridicule, and got it to pass as an arrow of wisdom shot out of a popular experience in remote ages. [4]
- His essays of this kind will never be popular in the sense in which are his other writings. [4]
- We see how this is in the great number of plays adapted from popular novels. [4]
- No doubt the thing was popular in some quarters, and would have been more so if it had been a general declaration of emancipation. [7]
- Unquestionably, the popular thing in this world is novelty. [5]
- I am recalling these details to show that the amusement was popular and cheap. [4]
- The truth is, these copies were so common, so universal, in the shops and everywhere, that they presently became as intolerable to the wearied eye as the latest popular melody usually becomes to the harassed ear. [5]
- But last year there was not a Douglas popular sovereign in Illinois who did not say it. [7]
- At that instant there pushed forward into the clear space beside Charley Steele the great figure of Jake Hough, the horse-doctor, the strongest man, and the most popular Englishman on the river. [11]
- In a word, the whole thing, at a dash of the pen, is at last put in the power of Congress; for if they do not have this popular sovereignty until Congress organizes them, I ask if it at last does not come from Congress? [7]
- Due publication of the whole matter was made in the paper, and the popular assayer left town "between two days. [5]
- The basis of the vast proprietary medicine business is popular ignorance and credulity. [4]
- Had they seen the thing done, there would have been sensation, but no mystery; but night, secrecy, distance, mystery, all begot, not a reaction in Mazarine's favour, but a protest against the thing being done under cover, as it were, unhelped by popular observation. [11]
- I knew Charles the Second very well--one of the most popular comedians in the English section--draws first rate. [5]
- It possesses essentially the same character to the north, although the shore is occasionally higher and bolder, as at the picturesque promontory of Magnolia, and Cape Ann exhibits more of the hotel and popular life. [4]
- But what is the relation of our general intellectual life to popular education? [4]
- The sub-lieutenants (of the press) stick a too popular writer and speaker with an epithet in England, instead of with a rapier, as in France.--Poh! [6]
- Some who attain the position of classics are subject to variations in popular and even in scholarly favor or neglect. [4]
- The Greeley of the popular heart was clad as Bennett said he was clad. [4]
- With other signs, the popular elections then just past indicated uneasiness among ourselves, while, amid much that was cold and menacing, the kindest words coming from Europe were uttered in accents of pity that we are too blind to surrender a hopeless cause. [7]
- 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]
- Was not this the origin of popular sovereignty as applied to the American people? [7]
- It is not the most popular poet who is necessarily the greatest; Wordsworth never had half the popularity of Scott or Moore. [6]
- In spite of the intensity of his own anguish, Hodder was conscious of a curious detachment; and for months afterward particular smells, the sight of a gasoline stove, a certain popular tune gave him a sharp twinge of pain. [9]
- The novel is the common recreation of ladies of rank, and where is the young woman in this country who has not tried her hand at a romance or made a cast at a popular magazine? [4]
- Ever alive to the bent of the popular mind, she had chosen a perfect occasion to take them into her confidence--however little or much she would abide by her words, or intended the union of which she spoke. [11]
- We join in the amusement of the popular lampoon; we visit the prison-house; we stand by the scaffold; we are present at the battle and the siege. [6]
- We are aware that this is not a very popular doctrine. [7]
- Now, I think that there is a real popular sovereignty in the world. [7]
- And the idea that she, too, might prefer the sanction of the law, the gilded cage as a popular song which once had taken his fancy illuminatingly expressed it--seemed utterly incongruous with the freedom and daring of her spirit, was a sobering shock. [9]
- He was certain that it would arrest the attention of the critics and of the public, whether it became popular or not. [11]
- I thought afterwards that it was a very courageous thing for him to do, because he was so popular with the mill people, and they had such a feeling against us. [9]
- The reader can test this by taking up his Shakespeare after a thorough investigation of the customs, manners, and popular life of the Elizabethan period. [4]
- We use the term in its popular sense, in the meaning, somewhat vague, it is true, which it has had since the middle of the eighteenth century. [4]
- There is a tacit understanding in every community of men of letters that they will not disturb the popular fallacy respecting this or that electro-gilded celebrity. [6]
- But I am surprised that you should have jumped at a conclusion which is the result of a popular and unfortunately prevalent opinion that the Northeastern Railroads meddled in any way with the government or politics of this State. [9]
- If a popular superstition is correct, I was predestined to journey. [10]
- The twins had suddenly become popular idols along with Pudd'nhead Wilson, and haloed with a glory as intense as his. [5]
- These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon, under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity; trusting then, as now, that Congress would readily ratify them. [7]
- And if your story does not take the popular fancy, where will you be then? [4]
- I did not stop to think whether it was a happy theme or not, or whether it had popular elements. [11]
- These driblets of splendor only feed the popular impatience. [4]
- Concerts of this sort, generally with more popular music and a considerable dash of Wagner, in whom the Munichers believe, take place every night in several cafes; while comic singing, some of it exceedingly well done, can be heard in others. [4]
- There is nothing so popular for the moment as the fall of a favourite. [11]
- The name of Sir Walter Raleigh is intimately associated with Carolina and Virginia, and it is the popular impression that he personally assisted in the discovery of the one and the settlement of the other. [4]
- There were even signs of a reaction against the administration in the fall elections of 1862, seemingly justifying the opinion, entertained by many, that the President had really anticipated the development of popular feeling. [7]
- The shops and shows represent the taste of the million, and although there is a similarity in all these popular coast watering-places, each has a characteristic of its own. [4]
- It illustrates our sheeplike habit of expressing ourselves in the familiar phrase or popular slang of the day that at the instant the only thing King could think of to send was this: "Hold the fort, for I am coming. [4]
- Being the whole Seventh Cavalry's reptile, he doesn't belong to anybody in particular, and hasn't any military duties; so he comes and goes as he pleases, and is popular with all the house cats and other authentic sources of private information. [5]
- How a stray sentence, a popular saying, the maxim of some wise man, a line accidentally fallen upon and remembered, will sometimes help one when he is all ready to be vexed or indignant! [6]
- I did not see the three objects which a popular saying alleges are always to be met on the Pont Neuf: a priest, a soldier, and a white horse. [6]
- To Bliss he says: "It is a thing which I manufactured by pasting a popular comic picture into the middle of a celebrated Biblical one--shall attribute it to Titian. [5]
- No; the judge says popular sovereignty don't pertain to them then. [7]
- Your aunt Sally says he hates to go into the pulpit he's so ashamed; and the people have begun to cool toward him, and he ain't as popular now as he used to was. [5]
- You make the same mistake in a less degree, when you bend to the popular ignorance and conceit so far as to direct your college education to sordid ends. [4]
- Is not that running his Popular Sovereignty down awfully? [7]
- We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it; and I presume I shall make a garden next year that will be as popular as possible. [4]
- Yet a small riding-whip is the most popular article with the miscellaneous New-Englander at all great gatherings,--cattle-shows and Fourth-of-July celebrations. [6]
- Crumbs from the rich man's table don't avail any more to open the pearly gates even of popular esteem in this world. [4]
- Perhaps a fancied resemblance of the two men in the popular mind had something to do with this transfer of name. [4]
- Now something in regard to the Lecompton Constitution more specially; for I pass from this other question of popular sovereignty as the most arrant humbug that has ever been attempted on an intelligent community. [7]
- To those who reflect upon the means and end of popular government, nothing seems more stupid than in grand generalities to deprecate party spirit. [6]
- I am not referring to these things as a moralist at all, but simply in their relation to popular discontent. [4]
- Vane, who was recently made manager of Ready Money Ranch, is one of the most popular young men in the county. [9]
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