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  • noun Those things that are imponderable.

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  • Check it out to see which she liked best at Fair Weather and The Devil in the White City: Book Review posted at the imponderabilia of actual life.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Franki 2007

  • Indeed, it may be the very perniciously vague, equivocal, quasi-mystical, and/or ineliminably metaphorical imponderabilia of moral discourse that so troubles the error theorist.

    Moral Anti-Realism Joyce, Richard 2007

  • Check it out to see which she liked best at Fair Weather and The Devil in the White City: Book Review posted at the imponderabilia of actual life.

    The Good News in the Kidlitosphere: The June Carnival of Children's Literature Mary Lee 2007

  • Report this comment to the moderators the imponderabilia of actual life Writes:

    Katha Pollitt on Flanagan and Hirshman 2006

  • This comment was written by the imponderabilia of actual life.

    Katha Pollitt on Flanagan and Hirshman 2006

  • In this way he became acquainted with much of the imponderabilia of native life.

    An Agreeable Man Powdermaker, Hortense 1967

  • If we historians were to devote all our attention to the collection of facts and the collating of evidence and to nothing else at all, if we were to neglect the imponderabilia, the spiritual and human sides of life because we have no scientific scale to weigh them in (as indeed we cannot have), we should cease to attract the ablest minds of the rising generation into the army of historians.

    History and Literature 1924

  • The answer, as K. well knows, depends upon too many imponderabilia to be worth the cost of a cable.

    Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Ian Hamilton 1900

  • If we take into calculation the imponderabilia, whose weight can only be guessed at, the scale is inclined slightly in favour of the Triple

    Germany and the Next War Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889

  • Intellectual exercise gives tone to brain and character, and a really deep comprehension of war and its requirements postulates a certain philosophic mental education and bent, which makes it possible to assess the value of phenomena in their reciprocal relations, and to estimate correctly the imponderabilia.

    Germany and the Next War Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889

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