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Sentences starting with social

Social animals are impelled partly by a wish to aid the members of their community in a general manner, but more commonly to perform certain definite actions. [1]
Social life had few attractions for Hollowell, for his family were in the West; he appeared to have no relations with any branch of government; he wanted no office, though his influence was much sought by those who did want it. [4]
Social animals mutually defend each other. [1]
Social Aims, 285. [6]

Sentences ending with social

She represented a whole set of new and undetermined values for which he had no precedents, and unlike every woman he had known--including his wife--she had an integrity of her own, seemingly beyond the reach of all influences economic and social. [9]
Jack had his reasons for it, which may have been financial, and Carmen had her reasons, which were probably purely social. [4]
Dr. Lewis had many other tastes, and was a favorite, not only with students, but in a wide circle, professional, antiquarian, masonic, and social. [6]
What had reconciled Hodder to the enterprise most of all, however, was the chapel --in the plan a beautiful Gothic church--whereby he hoped to make the religious progress keep pace with the social. [9]
As in the French Revolution and the wars that followed it, the true significance of this war is social. [9]

Short sentences using social

Relationships, political, religious, social, domestic. [6]
The social arts! [11]

Sentences containing social two or more times

His social prestige was as mysterious as his diplomatic, but it was now unquestioned, and he might be considered as one of the first of a class who are to reconcile social and political life in this country. [4]
And all this talk of political and financial "wickedness" was rubbish; the wickedness they complained of did not reside merely in individuals it was a social disorder, or rather an order that no longer suited social conditions. [9]
As the emperor stepped into the gilded imperial wheelbarrow at the church door, the social democrat stabbed at him fifteen or sixteen times with a harpoon, but fortunately with such a peculiarly social democratic unprecision of aim as to do no damage. [5]
Of all our social contrivances, the formal dinner is probably the cause of more anxiety in the arrangement, of more weariness in the performance, and usually of less satisfaction in the retrospect than any other social function. [4]
In a political point of view it is of course impossible, but it has been hoped by many, and feared by more, that a social state might be created conforming somewhat to the social order in European countries. [4]
We will confine our attention to the higher social animals; and pass over insects, although some of these are social, and aid one another in many important ways. [1]
The celebrated Social Library, halfway up the street, occupied part of Miss Lucretia's little house; or, it might better be said, Miss Lucretia boarded with the Social Library. [9]
The British unions have gradually developed and placed in power leaders educated in social science, who have now come into touch with the intellectual leaders of the United Kingdom, with the sociologists, economists, and social scientists. [9]
To publish a book or to have an article accepted by a magazine may give a sort of social distinction, either as an exhibition of a certain unexpected capacity or a social eccentricity. [4]
Each man had been differently trained, each viewed life from a different stand-point, and yet each had been brought up in the same social atmosphere, in the same social sets, had imbibed the same traditions, been moved generally by the same public considerations. [11]

More example sentences with the word social in them

The social law you sketch when reduced to its bare elements, is remorseless. [11]
She had not yet learned to use the word patronize in the social sense, and she was at a loss to describe the attitude of Mrs. Duncan and her daughter, though her instinct had registered it. [9]
Indeed, for many years, if there was any exception to the general toleration it was in the social ostracism of those who held and expressed extreme opinions in regard to immediate emancipation, and were stigmatized as abolitionists. [4]
During the latter years of his life he became increasingly interested in social questions, some of which partook of a semi-political character. [4]
The man who wrote these beautiful lines: 'Inconstancy in a woman, because of the present social conditions, is sometimes pardonable. [9]
There, his talents would make him an admiral, and doubtless give him the social position he secretly coveted. [9]
Charley said he would go with me,--Charley, my Captain's beloved friend, gentle, but full of spirit and liveliness, cultivated, social, affectionate, a good talker, a most agreeable letter-writer, observing, with large relish of life, and keen sense of humor. [6]
What could one woman do against the accepted demoralizations of her social life? [4]
It was not without regret that he did this, for his cousin was a very charming woman, and devoted exclusively to the most exclusive social life. [4]
It is only within the past few years that our colleges and universities have begun to teach modern economics, social science and psychology--and this in the face of opposition from trustees. [9]
Agreements entered into with the government by union leaders will not hold him if at any time he fails to be satisfied that the present world conflict will not result in a greater social justice. [9]
Their testimony coincides with that of careful students of the economic and social conditions. [4]
She felt--she knew--that with her husband a portion of her own being had been riven from her, but she could not yet perceive that this last portion was nothing less than the very foundations of her whole moral and social being. [10]
Some there were who gazed at the Rothfield with longing eyes, but who had no intention of committing social suicide. [9]
These social qualities, which Miss Sally first discovered by accident, gradually made such an impression upon her, that she would entreat Mr Swiveller to relax as though she were not by, which Mr Swiveller, nothing loth, would readily consent to do. [12]
The big dinner-parties which are commonly made to pay off social debts are generally of the sort that one would rather contribute to in money than in personal attendance. [4]
I remember that when Leverrier discovered the Milky Way, he and the other astronomers began to theorize about it in substantially the same fashion which M. Bourget employs in his seasonings about American social facts and their origin. [5]
He dressed well when in the city,--even elegantly,--he had many of the lesser social accomplishments, was a good dancer, and compared favorably in all such matters with the more dashing young fellows in society. [6]
I don't know what's the reason, but these material tokens of a social decay afflict me terribly; a tipsy woman isn't dreadfuler than a haggard old house, that's once been a home, in a street like this. [5]
The original members were selected by an invitation from the American Social Science Association, which acted under the power of its charter from the Congress of the United States. [4]
Their social differences were nothing to him. [6]
The intellectual interests were first with her, but she might be equal to sacrificing them; she had the best heart, but she might know how to harden it; if she was eccentric, her social orbit was defined; comets themselves traverse space on fixed lines. [8]
This conclusion agrees well with the belief that the so-called moral sense is aboriginally derived from the social instincts, for both relate at first exclusively to the community. [1]
He is a well set up young man of about twenty-seven, bronzed from his life in a training camp, of an adventurous and social nature. [9]
She was pretty well paid, to be sure, and in answer to Selene's enquiry, he had stated the amount she earned and mentioned the name of the rich manufacturer to whom she had sold her social standing for gold. [10]
It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal, if its intellectual faculties were to become as active and as highly developed as in man, would acquire exactly the same moral sense as ours. [1]
She explained as well as she could the social destitution of these opulent people, and she had of course to name Beaton as the source of her knowledge concerning them. [8]
Think of the weary hours you have given to a rite that should be the highest social pleasure! [4]
We compare the weakened impression of a past temptation with the ever present social instincts, or with habits, gained in early youth and strengthened during our whole lives, until they have become almost as strong as instincts. [1]
The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. [1]
A neighbour he was, but more in a Scriptural than social sense. [11]
What he held was that the artificial differences springing from the social union were disproportionate to the capacities springing from the original constitution; and that society, as now organized, tends to make the gulf wider between those who have privileges and those who have none. [4]
Yet that man was so heedless as not to reflect that all the social customs of civilised peoples are entitled to respectful observance, and that no man with a right spirit of courtesy in him ever has any disposition to transgress these customs. [5]
And yet he was singularly modest and deferential in social intercourse. [7]
At first he was preoccupied, and answered absently across the table the questions of the Englishman and the Austrian about American politics, and talked to the lady of social prominence on his right not at all; nor to Mrs. Pomfret'--who excused him. [9]
And although Clement was particularly good-looking, and would have been called a distinguishable youth anywhere, Mr. Bradshaw considered himself far more than his match, in all probability, in social accomplishments. [6]
This particular question was one which he purposed to make the subject of his address as president of the Social Science Association, at its annual meeting in 1901. [4]
Of honors there was no lack, nor of the adulation of social and literary circles. [4]
The moral aristocracy was mowed down in the name of uniformity; the social aristocracy is mowed down in the name of equality. [4]
Skillfully with this was insinuated the notion of the false and contemptible social pride and exclusiveness of Stanhope's relations, which Mrs. Bartlett Glow represented as implacable while she condemned it as absurd. [4]
The social atmosphere was distasteful; its elements were out of harmony with her ideals. [4]
Liverpool, where he was compelled to pass most of his time, had few attractions for him, and his low spirits did not permit him to avail himself of such social advantages as were offered. [4]
Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the time of the Tudors. [5]
Conversation As It Was By The Social Fire-side In The Time Of The Tudors from Ye Diary of Ye Cupbearer to her Maisty Queen Elizabeth. [5]
The virgin birth was an established fact in nature, and had its place in the social economy of the bee. [9]
Besides, her talk was always an education in the fine lights and shadows of this social life. [11]
A feather bed was a sign of social position; it was as much the dais to his honour as is the woolsack to the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords. [11]
Even while the war is in progress has that internal democratic process of evolution been going on, presaging profound changes in the social fabric. [9]
I have long wanted a good chance for getting acquainted with the social sphere several grades below that to which I am accustomed, and I have no doubt that I shall find matter for half a dozen new stories among those connections of mine. [6]
If, however, he walked along the shore at bathing times he might be enlightened, and he would see besides a certain simplicity of social life which sophisticated Europe has no parallel for. [4]
Celebrities in every walk of life, persons of social and official rank, writers for the press, assembled there on terms hardly possible in any other home in Vienna. [5]
Rolfe identified these visitors, and one morning called her attention to one who he said was the nation's foremost authority on social science. [9]
At St. Petersburg, Vienna, and elsewhere he had been vaguely conscious of these social changes; but they did not come within the ambit of his daily life, and so it had not mattered. [11]
It is a very hard thing to say, and I did not say it even to my wife, but I had a painful impression that she was valuing people by the money they had, by the social position they had attained. [4]
He made himself very agreeable by abundant details concerning the religious, political, social, commercial, and educational progress of the South American cities and states. [6]
There was the usual division of the scholars into a first and second set, according to the social position, mainly depending upon the fortune, of the families to which they belonged. [6]
It is considered useful as "a pick me up," and it serves an admirable purpose in the social system. [6]
What was the use of trying to enforce social intercourse under such conditions? [6]
People who get up in the world by service to others--through letters, or art, or science--may have their modest little misgivings as to their social value, but people that rise by money--especially if their gains are sudden--never have. [8]
There was an unusual lock of benignity upon his firmly moulded features, and an air of ease which rather surprised Mr. Bradshaw, who did not know all the social experiences which had formed a part of the old Master's history. [6]
The experiment of universal suffrage must render the waters of political and social life more or less turbid even if they remain innoxious. [6]
Though it was unintelligible why he had told it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pavlovna and the others appreciated Prince Hippolyte's social tact in so agreeably ending Pierre's unpleasant and unamiable outburst. [2]
Perhaps we shall understand some day that the social body, also, is subject to the operation of cause and effect. [9]
There is that undefined something, more like a machine than an aggregate of human sensibilities, which is set going in a "season," or at a watering-place, or permanently selects itself for certain social manifestations. [4]
They are of two sorts: the domestic story, entirely unidealized, and as flavorless as water-gruel; and the spiced novel, generally immoral in tendency, in which the social problems are handled, unhappy marriages, affinity and passional attraction, bigamy, and the violation of the seventh commandment. [4]
Mr. Edison should turn his attention from physics to humanity electrically considered in its social condition. [4]
To tell the truth, he had made the acquaintance of the Social Library and Miss Lucretia, and that lady had sung the praises of her favorite. [9]
Even the partial transmission of virtuous tendencies would be an immense assistance to the primary impulse derived directly and indirectly from the social instincts. [1]
But now in town, when entertainment must be more general, she and the Armours were prepared for social interchange. [11]
On coming to town, he found his country-acquaintance in a social position which seemed to discourage his continued intimacy. [6]
Comments upon other topics than those to which his department was originally devoted, especially upon social questions, were made a distinct feature. [4]
In these days, too, if a person of good family and high social standing steals anything, they call it kleptomania, and send him to the lunatic asylum. [5]
She was amused, too, by the thought that Lise's envy would be modified by the prospect of a heightened social status; since Lise, it will be remembered, had her Providence likewise. [9]
Their--their doctrine is too simple, it does not seem as if life, the social order is to be so easily solved. [9]
And when she told me we had a common acquaintance in Mrs. Hambleton Durrett--whom she thought so lovely!--I knew that she had taken Nancy as an ideal: Nancy, the social leader of what was to Mrs. George a metropolis. [9]
He was purposing to spend the winter in Southern California, coming back to the East in ample time to attend the annual meeting of the Social Science Association. [4]
He awoke, too, to some of the social gaieties about him, and found pleasure in the things that in the hour of his gloom had seemed mainly mockery. [5]
Their business is to so mix the real wrongs of our social life with imaginary hardships, and to heighten the whole with illusory and often debasing theories, that discontent will be engendered. [4]
This argument, reduced to plain terms, is simply this: that the mass of mankind are unfit to decide properly their own political and social condition; and that for the mass of mankind any but a very limited mental development is to be deprecated. [4]
Colonel Sprowle's compliments to Mr. Langdon and requests the pleasure of his company at a social entertainment on Wednesday evening next. [6]
Yet nobody seemed to mind it; and there was, indeed, a general air of social enjoyment and good feeling. [4]
An instant, then to me, your low good-bye-- Good-night, good-bye; and then the social reign, The lights, the songs, the flowers--and the pain. [11]
He never sought to make friends, had a thorough contempt for social trifling, and shrugged his shoulders at the "swagger" of some of the other officers. [11]
This invitation promised to lend fresh distinction to her social position, and open a sphere of activity which suited her taste. [10]
The standard objected to is the narrow insular one (the term "insular" is used purely as a geographical one) that measures life, social conditions, feeling, temperament, and national idiosyncrasies expressed in our literature by certain fixed notions prevalent in England. [4]
I had hoped to hunt up and talk with a hundred steamboatmen, but got so pleasantly involved in the social life of the town that I got nothing more than mere five-minute talks with a couple of dozen of the craft. [5]
It adds nothing to human knowledge, it solves none of the problems of life, it touches none of the questions of social science, it is not a philosophical treatise, and it is not a dozen things that it might have been. [4]
Washington is getting to have a character of its own; it seems as if it wouldn't be much without its official life, yet the process is going on here that is so marked all over the country--the divorce of social and political life. [4]
They have drawing-rooms to foster social pretence, and they have dining-rooms and bedrooms; but they have no room where the family can all come together and feel the sweetness of being a family. [8]
If Germany continues to destroy shipping on the seas, if we are not able to supply our new armies and the Allied nations with food and other things, the increasing social ferment will paralyze the military operations of the Entente. [9]
It is important to bear in mind that the statesmen of our Revolution were inaugurating a political and not a social revolution, and that the gravamen of their protest was against the authority of a distant crown. [4]
Flitting about were to be seen the social heroes who had a notoriety thirty and forty years ago in the newspapers. [4]
And not less to be dreaded than monotony from the governmental point of view, is the obliteration of variety in social life and in literary development. [4]
One was forced to acknowledge her perfection in the part she had chosen as the arbitress of social honours. [9]
Two or three times, however, her face suddenly flushed with the memory of the scene in the Manor, and her first real awakening to her social insufficiency; for she of all the family had been least careful to see herself as others might see her. [11]
Is it not time to look the facts squarely in the face, and conform to them in our efforts for social and political amelioration? [4]
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]
The South was tied to a republic, but it was not republican, either in its politics or its social order. [4]
Our city was throwing off its social conservatism; wealth (which implied ability and superiority) was playing a greater part, entertainments were more luxurious, lines more strictly drawn. [9]
He must go through it, cruel as it was, with the easy self-command which belongs to a gentleman in the most trying social exigencies. [6]

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