All 44 Uses of
disposition
in
War and Peace
- The eldest princess paused in her reading and silently stared at him with frightened eyes; the second assumed precisely the same expression; while the youngest, the one with the mole, who was of a cheerful and lively disposition, bent over her frame to hide a smile probably evoked by the amusing scene she foresaw.†
Chpt 1
- Dispositions for Bagration.†
Chpt 2 *
- Prince Andrew, without replying, asked the prince's permission to ride round the position to see the disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent to execute an order.†
Chpt 2
- We went with Weyrother to survey the dispositions.†
Chpt 3
- But it was the first time he had heard Weyrother's name, or even the term "dispositions."†
Chpt 3
- Weyrother had been twice that evening to the enemy's picket line to reconnoiter personally, and twice to the Emperors, Russian and Austrian, to report and explain, and to his headquarters where he had dictated the dispositions in German, and now, much exhausted, he arrived at Kutuzov's.†
Chpt 3
- If at first the members of the council thought that Kutuzov was pretending to sleep, the sounds his nose emitted during the reading that followed proved that the commander in chief at that moment was absorbed by a far more serious matter than a desire to show his contempt for the dispositions or anything else—he was engaged in satisfying the irresistible human need for sleep.†
Chpt 3
- Weyrother, with the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutuzov and, having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the impending battle, under a heading which he also read out: "Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz, November 30, 1805."†
Chpt 3
- "Dispositions for an attack on the enemy position behind Kobelnitz and Sokolnitz, November 30, 1805."†
Chpt 3
- The dispositions were very complicated and difficult.†
Chpt 3
- The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions.†
Chpt 3
- Dohkturov, a little man, sat opposite Weyrother, with an assiduous and modest mien, and stooping over the outspread map conscientiously studied the dispositions and the unfamiliar locality.†
Chpt 3
- Langeron's objections were valid but it was obvious that their chief aim was to show General Weyrother—who had read his dispositions with as much self-confidence as if he were addressing school children—that he had to do, not with fools, but with men who could teach him something in military matters.†
Chpt 3
- "Gentlemen, the dispositions for tomorrow—or rather for today, for it is past midnight—cannot now be altered," said he.†
Chpt 3
- The dispositions for the next battle are planned by him alone.†
Chpt 3
- According to the dispositions….†
Chpt 3
- "The dispositions!" exclaimed Kutuzov bitterly.†
Chpt 3
- They differed from them in speech, dress, and disposition.†
Chpt 10
- Prince Andrew's last stay at Bogucharovo, when he introduced hospitals and schools and reduced the quitrent the peasants had to pay, had not softened their disposition but had on the contrary strengthened in them the traits of character the old prince called boorishness.†
Chpt 10
- This disposition on the left flank increased Pierre's doubt of his own capacity to understand military matters.†
Chpt 10
- After giving these and other commands he returned to his tent, and the dispositions for the battle were written down from his dictation.†
Chpt 10
- These dispositions, of which the French historians write with enthusiasm and other historians with profound respect, were as follows: At dawn the two new batteries established during the night on the plain occupied by the Prince d'Eckmuhl will open fire on the opposing batteries of the enemy.†
Chpt 10
- These dispositions, which are very obscure and confused if one allows oneself to regard the arrangements without religious awe of his genius, related to Napoleon's orders to deal with four points—four different orders.†
Chpt 10
- In the disposition it is said first that the batteries placed on the spot chosen by Napoleon, with the guns of Pernetti and Fouche; which were to come in line with them, 102 guns in all, were to open fire and shower shells on the Russian fleches and redoubts.†
Chpt 10
- All this, like the other parts of the disposition, was not and could not be executed.†
Chpt 10
- So not one of the orders in the disposition was, or could be, executed.†
Chpt 10
- But in the disposition it is said that, after the fight has commenced in this manner, orders will be given in accordance with the enemy's movements, and so it might be supposed that all necessary arrangements would be made by Napoleon during the battle.†
Chpt 10
- Moreover, the assertion made by various writers that his cold was the cause of his dispositions not being as well planned as on former occasions, and of his orders during the battle not being as good as previously, is quite baseless, which again shows that Napoleon's cold on the twenty-sixth of August was unimportant.†
Chpt 10
- The dispositions cited above are not at all worse, but are even better, than previous dispositions by which he had won victories.†
Chpt 10
- The dispositions cited above are not at all worse, but are even better, than previous dispositions by which he had won victories.†
Chpt 10
- These dispositions and orders only seem worse than previous ones because the battle of Borodino was the first Napoleon did not win.†
Chpt 10
- The profoundest and most excellent dispositions and orders seem very bad, and every learned militarist criticizes them with looks of importance, when they relate to a battle that has been lost, and the very worst dispositions and orders seem very good, and serious people fill whole volumes to demonstrate their merits, when they relate to a battle that has been won.†
Chpt 10
- The profoundest and most excellent dispositions and orders seem very bad, and every learned militarist criticizes them with looks of importance, when they relate to a battle that has been lost, and the very worst dispositions and orders seem very good, and serious people fill whole volumes to demonstrate their merits, when they relate to a battle that has been won.†
Chpt 10
- The dispositions drawn up by Weyrother for the battle of Austerlitz were a model of perfection for that kind of composition, but still they were criticized—criticized for their very perfection, for their excessive minuteness.†
Chpt 10
- His troops were the same, his generals the same, the same preparations had been made, the same dispositions, and the same proclamation courte et energique, he himself was still the same: he knew that and knew that he was now even more experienced and skillful than before.†
Chpt 10
- On the morning of the fourth of October Kutuzov signed the dispositions.†
Chpt 13
- The dispositions drawn up by Toll were very good.†
Chpt 13
- As in the Austerlitz dispositions, it was written—though not in German this time: "The First Column will march here and here,"†
Chpt 13
- Everything had been admirably thought out as is usual in dispositions, and as is always the case, not a single column reached its place at the appointed time.†
Chpt 13
- When the necessary number of copies of the dispositions had been prepared, an officer was summoned and sent to deliver them to Ermolov to deal with.†
Chpt 13
- Meantime, according to the dispositions which said that "the First Column will march" and so on, the infantry of the belated columns, commanded by Bennigsen and directed by Toll, had started in due order and, as always happens, had got somewhere, but not to their appointed places.†
Chpt 13
- The battle of Tarutino obviously did not attain the aim Toll had in view—to lead the troops into action in the order prescribed by the dispositions; nor that which Count Orlov-Denisov may have had in view—to take Murat prisoner; nor the result of immediately destroying the whole corps, which Bennigsen and others may have had in view; nor the aim of the officer who wished to go into action to distinguish himself; nor that of the Cossack who wanted more booty than he got, and so on.†
Chpt 13
- Toll wrote a disposition: "The first column will march to so and so," etc. And as usual nothing happened in accord with the disposition.†
Chpt 15
- Toll wrote a disposition: "The first column will march to so and so," etc. And as usual nothing happened in accord with the disposition.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(disposition as in: a kind disposition) someone's normal mood, personality, or typical way of behaving