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Ames, though absorbed in the cares pertaining to the management of gigantic business interests, yet finds time for the appreciative enjoyment of the amenities and refinements of life. He posesses a cultivated appreciation of music, literature and the drama, and his artistic taste is evinced by his valuable and choice collections of paintings and statuary.
In both ways, we may see more clearly how prevalent ideas and doctrines have arisen as "reflections upon" the life of action, and even account for their qualities and their defects their partial truth or their corresponding inadequacy, according to our own appreciative or depreciative standpoint.
Roger Williams, too, that valiant adventurer "but no, more valiant than wise, and worth his weight in gold," according to the appreciative Leicester was shot through the arm.
Probably only a very small proportion of these girls are strong enough physically or nervously to meet the growing demands of the schools. They may do well for a time, some of them unusually well, for it is the sensitive, high-strung organism that is appreciative and effective.
Besides he had received two letters from her, one written in the course of the fight, gay in tone, expressing an eager interest in her husband's fortunes, keenly appreciative of her husband's brilliancy and bravery. The second, in reply to his telegram of congratulation, had run in another key; an utter weariness and an almost disgusted satiety seemed to have superseded her former interest.
"Senor Fat," broke in the Mexican, sharply, while Larry winced at the distasteful appellation, "she is my Senorita!" "Is she? Well, I can't help it if she falls for me." The speaker cast an appreciative glance at his employer.
If, then, the office of the judge be an essential part of the critical function, the appreciative critic, whatever his other merits, and we shall examine them later, fails at least of perfection. His scheme is not the ideal one; and we may turn back, in our search for it, to a closer view of those which his was to supersede.
I always finish with "Beware!" and Charles always accompanies me, which pleases him very much. He thinks that American audiences are very appreciative, because they stand up and clap and the women wave their handkerchiefs. I tell him they stand up because the next thing they are going to do is to go out. WORCESTER, December, 1871. DEAR MOTHER, Thanks for your letter.
I did, never a more pig-headed man in England than Geoffrey Lindon, or, in a sense, a duller. But, just then, I was not prepared to admit it to his child. 'You know what an absurd objection he has to Paul. There was an appreciative hesitation before she uttered the fellow's Christian name, when it came it was with an accent of tenderness which stung me like a gadfly.
In dealing with ourselves we shall only desire to be faithful, fearless and sincere; in dealing with others we shall try to be patient, tender, appreciative, and hopeful. If we have to blame, we shall blame without bitterness, without the outraged sense of personal vanity that brings anger with it.
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