All 50 Uses of
consequence
in
Anna Karenina
- One must take the consequences….†
Part 1 (definition 1) *
- Consequently the distributors of earthly blessings in the shape of places, rents, shares, and such, were all his friends, and could not overlook one of their own set; and Oblonsky had no need to make any special exertion to get a lucrative post.
Part 1 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- …for others, founded on a consciousness of his own shortcomings; secondly, of his perfect liberalism—not the liberalism he read of in the papers, but the liberalism that was in his blood, in virtue of which he treated all men perfectly equally and exactly the same, whatever their fortune or calling might be; and thirdly—the most important point—his complete indifference to the business in which he was engaged, in consequence of which he was never carried away, and never made mistakes.†
Part 1 (definition 1)
- He was the familiar friend of everyone with whom he took a glass of champagne, and he took a glass of champagne with everyone, and when in consequence he met any of his disreputable chums, as he used in joke to call many of his friends, in the presence of his subordinates, he well knew how, with his characteristic tact, to diminish the disagreeable impression made on them.†
Part 1 (definition 1)
- Levin suddenly blushed, not as grown men blush, slightly, without being themselves aware of it, but as boys blush, feeling that they are ridiculous through their shyness, and consequently ashamed of it and blushing still more, almost to the point of tears.
Part 1 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- "All right, then, the England," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, selecting that restaurant because he owed more there than at the Hermitage, and consequently considered it mean to avoid it.
Part 1 (definition 1)
- Vronsky openly flirted with Kitty at balls, danced with her, and came continually to the house, consequently there could be no doubt of the seriousness of his intentions.
Part 1 (definition 1)
- And strange it was that they were actually talking of how absurd Ivan Ivanovitch was with his French, and how the Eletsky girl might have made a better match, yet these words had all the while consequence for them, and they were feeling just as Kitty did.†
Part 1 (definition 1)
- In the first place he resolved that from that day he would give up hoping for any extraordinary happiness, such as marriage must have given him, and consequently he would not so disdain what he really had.
Part 1 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- His ideas of marriage were, consequently, quite unlike those of the great majority of his acquaintances, for whom getting married was one of the numerous facts of social life.
Part 1 (definition 1)
- With the same complacent smile he told her of the ovations he had received in consequence of the act he had passed.†
Part 1 (definition 1)
- She knew, too, that he was really interested in books dealing with politics, philosophy, and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his nature; but, in spite of this, or rather, in consequence of it, Alexey Alexandrovitch never passed over anything in the world of art, but made it his duty to read everything.†
Part 1 (definition 1)
- He thought it natural because he did it every day, and felt and thought, as it seemed to him, no harm as he did it and consequently he considered modesty in the girl not merely as a relic of barbarism, but also as an insult to himself.
Part 2 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- And believe me, it's of so little consequence….†
Part 2 (definition 2)
- As the head of the family, I am a person bound in duty to guide her, and consequently, in part the person responsible; I am bound to point out the danger I perceive, to warn her, even to use my authority.
Part 2 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- In February he had received a letter from Marya Nikolaevna telling him that his brother Nikolay's health was getting worse, but that he would not take advice, and in consequence of this letter Levin went to Moscow to his brother's and succeeded in persuading him to see a doctor and to go to a watering-place abroad.†
Part 2 (definition 1)
- …called for special attention in spring, and in addition to reading, Levin had begun that winter a work on agriculture, the plan of which turned on taking into account the character of the laborer on the land as one of the unalterable data of the question, like the climate and the soil, and consequently deducing all the principles of scientific culture, not simply from the data of soil and climate, but from the data of soil, climate, and a certain unalterable character of the laborer.
Part 2 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- Thus, in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.†
Part 2 (definition 1)
- Consequently Vronsky had the right to despise Levin, and therefore he was his enemy.
Part 2 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- The majority of the younger men envied him for just what was the most irksome factor in his love—the exalted position of Karenin, and the consequent publicity of their connection in society.†
Part 2 (definition 1)
- There was visiting the watering-place that year a real German Fuerstin, in consequence of which the crystallizing process went on more vigorously than ever.†
Part 2 (definition 1)
- Why, you saved that Levin from disagreeable consequences.†
Part 2 (definition 1)
- "Well, there's really nothing of any consequence; only that Mihail Alexeyevitch" (that was the artist's name) "had meant to leave earlier, and now he doesn't want to go away," said Varenka, smiling.†
Part 2 (definition 2)
- In Sergey Ivanovitch's eyes his younger brother was a capital fellow, with his heart in the right place (as he expressed it in French), but with a mind which, though fairly quick, was too much influenced by the impressions of the moment, and consequently filled with contradictions.
Part 3 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- The better he knew his brother, the more he noticed that Sergey Ivanovitch, and many other people who worked for the public welfare, were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them.
Part 3 (definition 1)
- Official duties, which had always been of great consequence in Alexey Alexandrovitch's eyes, seemed of special importance to his mind at this moment.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- She felt that the position in the world that she enjoyed, and that had seemed to her of so little consequence in the morning, that this position was precious to her, that she would not have the strength to exchange it for the shameful position of a woman who has abandoned husband and child to join her lover; that however much she might struggle, she could not be stronger than herself.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- The unexpected young visitor, whom Sappho had invited, and whom she had forgotten, was, however, a personage of such consequence that, in spite of his youth, both the ladies rose on his entrance.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- And in consequence of this, Vronsky, who had been in the habit of living on the scale of forty-five thousand a year, having only received twenty thousand that year, found himself now in difficulties.†
Part 3 (definition 1)
- Anna said, restraining her tears, and obviously attaching no sort of consequence to what he said.†
Part 3 (definition 2)
- The delight he had experienced in the work itself, and the consequent greater intimacy with the peasants, the envy he felt of them, of their life, the desire to adopt that life, which had been to him that night not a dream but an intention, the execution of which he had thought out in detail —all this had so transformed his view of the farming of the land as he had managed it, that he could not take his former interest in it, and could not help seeing that unpleasant relation between…†
Part 3 (definition 1)
- He says, too, that education may be the consequence of greater prosperity and comfort, of more frequent washing, as he says, but not of being able to read and write….†
Part 3 (definition 1)
- His whole life had been spent in administrative work, and consequently, when he did not approve of anything, his disapproval was softened by the recognition of the inevitability of mistakes and the possibility of reform in every department.
Part 4 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- I want a divorce, but the form in which it is possible is of great consequence to me.†
Part 4 (definition 2)
- From your words I may consequently conclude that a divorce may be obtained?
Part 4 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- In consequence of this, in the higher spheres, and even in society, all was chaos, and although everyone was interested, no one could tell whether the native tribes really were becoming impoverished and ruined, or whether they were in a flourishing condition.†
Part 4 (definition 1)
- Consequently Stepan Arkadyevitch deemed it his duty to call upon him in his non-official dress.
Part 4 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- It is old; but do you know, when you grasp this fully, then somehow everything becomes of no consequence.†
Part 4 (definition 2)
- And consequently, not being able to believe in the significance of what he was doing nor to regard it with indifference as an empty formality, during the whole period of preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame at doing what he did not himself understand, and what, as an inner voice told him, was therefore false and wrong.
Part 5 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- At that meeting Vronsky perceived that Golenishtchev had taken up a sort of lofty, intellectually liberal line, and was consequently disposed to look down upon Vronsky's interests and calling in life.
Part 5 (definition 1)
- Now he was delighted and excited at the visit of these people of consequence, Russians, who had come in their carriage.†
Part 5 (definition 2)
- But other people's criticisms, whatever they might be, had yet immense consequence in his eyes, and they agitated him to the depths of his soul.†
Part 5 (definition 1)
- He only remembered his face as he remembered all the faces he had ever seen; but he remembered, too, that it was one of the faces laid by in his memory in the immense class of the falsely consequential and poor in expression.
Part 5 (definition 2) *consequential = important
- The abundant hair and very open forehead gave an appearance of consequence to the face, which had only one expression—a petty, childish, peevish expression, concentrated just above the bridge of the narrow nose.†
Part 5 (definition 2)
- He went on with his work, but he felt now that the center of gravity of his attention had passed to something else, and that consequently he looked at his work quite differently and more clearly.
Part 5 (definition 1)consequently = resultantly (as a result)
- …that the poverty of Russia arises not merely from the anomalous distribution of landed property and misdirected reforms, but that what had contributed of late years to this result was the civilization from without abnormally grafted upon Russia, especially facilities of communication, as railways, leading to centralization in towns, the development of luxury, and the consequent development of manufactures, credit and its accompaniment of speculation—all to the detriment of agriculture.†
Part 5 (definition 1)
- He still filled a position of consequence, he sat on many commissions and committees, but he was a man whose day was over, and from whom nothing was expected.†
Part 5 (definition 2)
- He imagined his father's having suddenly been presented with both the Vladimir and the Andrey today, and in consequence being much better tempered at his lesson, and dreamed how, when he was grown up, he would himself receive all the orders, and what they might invent higher than the Andrey.†
Part 5 (definition 1)
- In spite of all his social experience Vronsky was, in consequence of the new position in which he was placed, laboring under a strange misapprehension.†
Part 5 (definition 1)
- She knew that to him, although he was the primary cause of her distress, the question of her seeing her son would seem a matter of very little consequence.†
Part 5 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (consequence as in: a direct consequence of) a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
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(2) (consequence as in: of little consequence) importance or relevance