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Jaric stared awkwardly at his hands, afraid to smile, fearful that if he acknowledged the forester's praise something inex-plicable might intrude and ruin the moment.

Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

Good'this gave him a chance to figure out an ap - plicable verse.

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

Good'this gave him a chance to figure out an ap - plicable verse.

Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

Cooper espoused a strict psychological materialism and trans - lated Broussais 'On Irritation and Insanity (1831) to support his conviction that mental processes are ex - plicable in terms of the motions of the nervous system.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968

In contrast to Newton, the romantic mind tends to make of both repulsion and attraction forces which, though working in exactly opposite directions, have the same nature; just as inex - plicable on the physical plane as they appear similar to psychical forces — Love and Hate — a view which

COSMIC IMAGES H 1968

The work of art — the tragedy or music — is a stimulus for various responses, all ex - plicable in natural terms.

CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968

The views of causation among the literate peoples of the ancient world exhibited the almost universal tend - ency of antiquity as well as of modern pre-literate cultures, to interpret natural phenomena in terms ap - plicable only to the arrangement of human society, or at least to the actions of intelligent agents.

CAUSATION JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

Furthermore, Herder's heuristic principle of treating every manifestation of culture as essentially autonomous, though interrelated in the two - dimensional sense indicated, also implies that the ap - plicable mode of causality is that of multiple causation.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK M. BARNARD 1968

Concord and Merrimack Rivers, they argue, are ex - plicable only by reference to the Indian discipline.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CARL T. JACKSON 1968

Those scenes, begun without any warning, ended abruptly in a sobbing flight and a bang of the door; stirred the house with a sudden, a fierce, and an evanescent disturbance; like those inex plicable whirlwinds that rise, run, and vanish without apparent cause upon the sun-scorched dead level of arid and lamentable plains.

An Outcast Of The Islands 1896