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Updated: May 23, 2025
So, too, in general, if you think that the folk of old were inappreciative of beauty, you have but to listen to their names of flowers sweet-william, hearts-ease, marigold, meadow-sweet, night-shade for proof that English peasant-life had its graceful side.
The ladies were unmoved, because inappreciative; the lawyer looked savagely envious, the cavalryman and the master approving, and Theodore, frankly admiring, but no one said anything, the little cavalcade rearranged itself, and once more moved on at a footpace until an electric car appeared.
Sometimes I venture to approach him with a plea for wildness, when he good-naturedly shakes a big mellow apple in my face, reiterating his favorite aphorism, "Culture is an orchard apple; Nature is a crab." Not all culture, however, is equally destructive and inappreciative.
So far from seeking to impress her visitor with a pose of social superiority, she behaved to him as though his presence honoured as much as it delighted her; look, tone, bearing, each was a flattery which no obtuseness could fail to apprehend, and Crewe's countenance proved him anything but inappreciative.
I suppose, upon such grounds mainly, that there are wicked publishers, but, in the case of our books that do not sell, I am afraid that it is the graceless and inappreciative public which is far more to blame than the wickedest of the publishers.
After much hesitation, a grammar-school, built by an enterprising landlord for an inappreciative population that had declined to support it, was selected as the most suitable location for the festivities. It lay about a mile from the town, and this was in itself an advantage. To the decoration of the rooms May and Fred diligently applied themselves.
He would rather ask too many questions than run the risk of seeming inappreciative. "Why were there only two young ones in the nest in the pine tree?" he inquired. It was very hard to know sometimes just what would please Uncle Andy, and what wouldn't. But this time it was quite all right. "Now, that's a proper, sensible question," said he. "I was just coming to that.
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