All 6 Uses of
neutral
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- On Sundays he was a man of misty views, rather given to postponing, and hampered by his best clothes and umbrella: upon the whole, one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section,—that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.†
Chpt 1-3
- The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath—in fact, he never barked even at the sheep except to order, when it was done with an absolutely neutral countenance, as a sort of Commination-service, which, though offensive, had to be gone through once now and then to frighten the flock for their own good.†
Chpt 4-6
- Bathsheba tried to preserve an absolutely neutral countenance, and all the motion she made was that of closing lips which had previously been a little parted.†
Chpt 19-21
- Be neutral, Mr. Boldwood!†
Chpt 19-21 *
- Gabriel was not angry: he was simply neutral, although her first command had been so haughty.†
Chpt 19-21
- The clashes of feeling in all directions confounded one another, produced a neutrality, and there was motion in none.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(neutral as in: played at a neutral site) not favoring any side in a contest, war, disagreement, or other dispute