unmathematical love

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  • adjective Not mathematical.
  • adjective Not inclined toward mathematics.

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Examples

  • She was the only woman that the decidedly unmathematical Voltaire ever found whose intelligence matched his own, and he became her devoted lover for fifteen years.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

  • She was the only woman that the decidedly unmathematical Voltaire ever found whose intelligence matched his own, and he became her devoted lover for fifteen years.

    Émilie, marquise du Châtelet Young Geoffrion 2009

  • He's got a loving family, a Manhattan pied-à-terre and patience enough to explain math to the unmathematical.

    The Elegant Variation: TEV 2007

  • He's got a loving family, a Manhattan pied-à-terre and patience enough to explain math to the unmathematical.

    THE INDIAN CLERK: FURTHER READING # 3 TEV 2007

  • On the other hand, as I have indicated, it may not be as unmathematical as it may appear, and perhaps had appeared to Blake.

    Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001

  • I had a similar experience with Avi Shmida, even if he as a natural scientist is not quite as unmathematical.

    Reinhard Selten - Autobiography 1995

  • Then he set out on an odyssey lasting several years to find the planet of eternal life, an artificial planet guided by a race who lived in a spiritually collective existence and who caused their artificial planet home to orbit in a strange, unmathematical path around a number of fixed stars.

    Menace of the Mutant Master Mahr, Kurt 1976

  • There is a genuine artistic abandon, a deep, joyous emotion written in the curving and unmathematical arrangements of houses, buildings, and avenues; a sense of intensity, of divine belief in an inner certainty.

    The Voyage of the Space Beagle Van Vogt, A. E. 1950

  • But I'll never forgive you, you most unscientific and unmathematical artist, for having given me so many shocking misfits lately, until I have looked like a scarecrow in a cornfield; even now you are smelling like a distillery.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • I shall give you a full, true, and particular account of the discovery, rise, and progress of this place, with a religious adherence to _dates_ which will rather astonish your unmathematical mind.

    The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

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