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  • I need fuel so I can sort things out and assimilate them properly.†   (source)
  • It was all easy enough to assimilate.†   (source)
  • They say there's no citizen as patriotic as the new immigrant—and there was no one who tried any harder to be "assimilated" than I tried.†   (source)
  • Modern religion is a collage ....an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.†   (source)
  • Returning to District 8 or assimilating into another district would be impossible.†   (source)
  • During the time I was with him, Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss.†   (source)
  • He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, assimilating the possibilities of irresponsible authority.†   (source)
  • Before Arthur was able to assimilate this the other man spoke and the word PHOUCHG appeared by his neck.†   (source)
  • It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.†   (source)
  • We were to assimilate ourselves into the culture before returning to Lorien when it could again sustain life.†   (source)
  • The quarries dried up after a while but the Italians remained and became assimilated into the town and the state.†   (source)
  • Her body is attempting to assimilate the wash of sensations.†   (source)
  • Wherever they went, the Indo-Europeans assimilated with the local culture, although Indo-European languages and Indo-European religion came to play a dominant role.†   (source)
  • Sean could pretend all he wanted, but Michael simply could not function without the elaborate support system she had built for him: private tutors, constant monitoring, and a steady drip-drip-drip Chinese cultural reeducation program, administered by her, to assimilate him into their world.†   (source)
  • They would have to accomplish their assimilation while somehow coping with the psychological aftermath of extreme trauma.†   (source)
  • Something had gone wrong, and instead of assimilating the red dye, the human body simply passed it along.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to imagine anyone who could have assimilated the daily life of Paris with so much speed and so much joy, and who learned to love her memory of it despite the eternal rain.†   (source)
  • By then her casebook was filled with terms such as introverted, socially inhibited, lacking in empathy, ego-fixated, psychopathic and asocial behaviour, difficulty in cooperating, and incapable of assimilating learning.†   (source)
  • He could barely assimilate the fact that Ajihad was dead and Murtagh missing.†   (source)
  • "And you?" she asked, struck again by how he'd aged, still trying to assimilate the fact of his presence, here with her, in this small room after all these years.†   (source)
  • The three of them put their heads together and decided to encourage Adam to return to Teen Challenge for the six-month voluntary cap to the yearlong program, a segment that helps individuals assimilate back into society.†   (source)
  • They'd proceeded recklessly, beginning the first settlement before we had adequate numbers in place for a full-scale assimilation.†   (source)
  • In this crowd of assimilated, careerist black and Hispanic kids, it is he, Cedric-king of the Ballou nerds, bottom of the Southeast D.C. pecking order-who can claim a particular brand of racial authenticity.†   (source)
  • Neither man quite understood the power of that mental culture which Johnnie was assimilating so avidly.†   (source)
  • Much of the lead from the rest of the statue would later be, as reported, melted down for bullets "to assimilate with the brains of our infatuated adversaries."†   (source)
  • She knew who they were through assimilation, through the ingestion of messages that riddled the streets.†   (source)
  • Iranians proved to be stubborn about assimilating western culture.†   (source)
  • Before the war one of the standard charges made against the Japanese was their clannishness, their standoffishness, their refusal to assimilate.†   (source)
  • Data for assimilation, but later, later.†   (source)
  • Their stories filled my days, and their troubles in assimilating preoccupied my evening hours.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise assimilated the definition and said, "But what's her daddy got to do with it?"†   (source)
  • He watched her assimilate as she poured yet more coffee.†   (source)
  • Many authorities claimed that the nation could no longer assimilate immigrants in such numbers as in the past.†   (source)
  • Remember that Eddis will not be assimilated immediately.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus seemed to assimilate them, or be assimilated by them.†   (source)
  • Without being told, I soon assimilated the elaborate rules that governed the relations between men and women.†   (source)
  • She'd take a short break, assimilate the notes she'd written, then go back and make certain she had the best seat in the house for Hunter Brown's lecture.†   (source)
  • The rest of the team took some time to assimilate Angel's dream.†   (source)
  • Still trying to assimilate her appearance, he did not answer, but he did return her gaze.†   (source)
  • The emphasis was on assimilating.†   (source)
  • I'd been off in my own thoughts, still assimilating the memories of the last couple of days.†   (source)
  • Edward, the information is coming too fast, I cannot assimilate it.†   (source)
  • Is this my assimilation, so many years in the making?†   (source)
  • Fully assimilated zombies.†   (source)
  • The mass would likely hold onto the improper spirit and gradually assimilate new members into itself.†   (source)
  • It will he some time before you can produce the material, much less assimilate it.†   (source)
  • B. J. Autry was dead of drugs and old Mr. Dale of a stroke, and the various foreign students had either returned to their own countries or else assimilated so successfully that they cooked Thanksgiving dinner for themselves now.†   (source)
  • She said she wanted to marry a nice boy from a good family and have children who would grow up to be fully assimilated French citizens.†   (source)
  • I had no doubts then, and none now, that I spent four years in the loveliest city on the continent and that some indelible mark of civilization, some passionate intimacy with form and beauty, would remain with me always if only I were vigilant enough, if only I were resolute in my intention to assimilate the resonances and intimations of that exquisite city.†   (source)
  • I had passed my limit of taking in or, like a man who goes on stuffing in food after he is filled, I felt helpless to assimilate what was fed in through my eyes.†   (source)
  • Other immigrants come to America looking for freedom from tyranny, acceptance by the culture, assimilation into it, this melting pot.†   (source)
  • Within the outer layers of civil life in that busy Southern town Jews were warmly, thoroughly assimilated and became unexceptional participants: merchants, doctors, lawyers, a spectrum of bourgeois achievement.†   (source)
  • Compare the Babylonian and the Israelite ways of assimilating the foreign.†   (source)
  • She did not doubt that he was assimilating every word, and she wondered if he could manage to read a book with each eye.†   (source)
  • On the way up to two stars and command of an air division, Dutch had been forced to assimilate two years of staff, part of his education.†   (source)
  • He wasn't, in one way, the least bit sorry to have an excuse to rest; to lie back in the lush, sun-hot grass and assimilate all that had happened in the last few days.†   (source)
  • It had been the dream of his life to write with an originality so discreet, so well concealed, as to be unnoticeable in its disguise of current and customary forms; all his life he had struggled foir a style so restrained, so unpretentious that the reader or the hearer would fully understand the meaning without realizing how he assimilated it.†   (source)
  • Its nervous system is decentralized, even its assimilation system.†   (source)
  • A silver ring fish floated by them, undulating, and closing like an iris, instantly, around food particles, to assimilate them.†   (source)
  • They couldn't be assimilated; anyway, most of them prefer it here.†   (source)
  • Within a year of my arrival, even the Union of American Exiles showed signs of "assimilation."†   (source)
  • The novel situation was perforce assimilated in terms of the most available frames of reference.†   (source)
  • Afghans were tough and resilient; Somalis were quiet, proud, and uninterested in assimilation.†   (source)
  • Doesn't that sound more agreeable to the aim of "assimilation into mainstream Canadian life"?†   (source)
  • Phaedrus seemed to assimilate them, or be assimilated by them.†   (source)
  • He, on the other hand, had long ago assimilated the grand scale of the peaks.†   (source)
  • Wasn't quite assimilated into the hivemind of delirium.†   (source)
  • The federal judiciary will unite and assimilate the principles of national justice.†   (source)
  • In time, I knew, Mahtob would assimilate, even against her will.†   (source)
  • To prevent this, Wall wants immigration reduced, to give legal immigrants time to assimilate.†   (source)
  • But the more they assimilated, the less they liked what they saw.†   (source)
  • "In the military they'd teach the men how to assimilate back home," says Kelley.†   (source)
  • Hispanic Immigration: Reconquest or Assimilation?†   (source)
  • Their assimilation into Israeli society was glancing at best.†   (source)
  • In fact, they are assimilating at the same generational rate as other language groups.†   (source)
  • Huntington says that Mexican immigration is unique and contradicts the tradition of assimilation.†   (source)
  • It could not, for his mind refused to assimilate it.†   (source)
  • The woman gave her jocular woodpecker yodel, and explained that they'd removed all the brain functions that had nothing to do with digestion, assimilation, and growth.†   (source)
  • Finally, a process of assimilation took place: the story was changed so it made more sense to those spreading the rumor.†   (source)
  • It was an operation that was so timely, drastic, and effective that two months after the armistice, when Colonel Aureliano Buendia had recovered, his most dedicated conspirators were dead or exiled or had been assimilated forever into public administration.†   (source)
  • But Lorenzo Daza had an infinite capacity for assimilating humiliations, and he continued his ingenious strategies for arranging casual encounters with Juvenal Urbino, not realizing that it was Juvenal Urbino who went out of his way to let himself be encountered.†   (source)
  • We can exchange energy with other living beings, we can use that energy to move our bodies or to fuel a spell, and we can even store that energy in certain objects for later use, but we cannot assimilate the fundamental forces of nature.†   (source)
  • Mae and Eamon had expected a reaction to this revelation, and they both paused to allow the crowd to assimilate this information.†   (source)
  • If they did their homework right, they realized, they could be the ones to level and sharpen and assimilate the cutting-edge ideas of youth culture and make them acceptable for the Majority.†   (source)
  • Since it was nigh impossible to keep large groups of armed warriors at the ready over extended periods of time-as Nasuada had learned, feeding that many inactive people was a logistical nightmare-the Varden had begun taking jobs, starting farms, and otherwise assimilating into their host country.†   (source)
  • Fornatee had been in the United States for seven years, longer than most of his teammates, and was perhaps the most assimilated member of the team.†   (source)
  • They took the cultural cues from the Innovators — cues that the mainstream kids may have seen but not been able to make sense of—and leveled, sharpened, and assimilated them into a more coherent form.†   (source)
  • The refugees were assimilating, to varying degrees, into American culture, and the natives—at least those who dared to interact meaningfully with the newcomers—were changing as well.†   (source)
  • The object of the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme was to get Americans "assimilated" quickly; they reasoned that we Americans should begin the process of our assimilation by dropping the subject of the United States.†   (source)
  • In the case of the Chinese scholar's vacation, according to Allport, the facts of the situation didn't make sense to the people of the town; so they came up with an interpretation that did make sense — that the scholar was a spy — and, to make that new interpretation work, discordant details were leveled out, incidents were sharpened to fit the chosen theme, and the episode as a whole was assimilated to the preexisting structure of feeling and thought characteristic of the members of the group among whom the rumor spread.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, Feltz believed, two groups of people would pay the price for this collective failure: the refugees themselves, and the residents of Clarkston, a small town with few resources and no expertise in handling the cultural assimilation of a group of traumatized and impoverished East African farmers into the American South.†   (source)
  • The object of the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme was to get Americans "assimilated" quickly; they reasoned that we Americans should begin the process of our assimilation by dropping the subject of the United States.†   (source)
  • The Toronto Anti-Draft Programme favored "assimilation into mainstream Canadian life"; they considered the Union of American Exiles "too political"—by which they meant, too activist, too militantly anti-United States.†   (source)
  • Writing to an Italian friend, Philip Mazzei, during the debate over the Jay Treaty, Jefferson had described America as a country taken over by "timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty," and by leaders who were assimilating "the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model."†   (source)
  • Before Enrique could assimilate how badly his encounter with Gloria had gone and before he could formulate a response to Juan's snipe, Ricardo stepped in front of the tall stranger and said, "I'll show you, puerco.†   (source)
  • Maybe he'd been hearing it all along at the assimilated edge, music blended with the room tone, the airplanes drifting into Newark, the faint wail of bullet traffic on the speedways out there—a moderated sorrow, piano work that had the texture of something old and gentled over, a pressed rose faded in a book.†   (source)
  • When this obstacle is overcome, as it will be soon, I'm sure, there is hope that the Walking Flowers might also be assimilated.†   (source)
  • He skims through a section about how the Jews arrived, giving up their religious orthodoxy to adopt a sort of liberal cosmopolitanism, giving over, in a way, to the same assimilatory currents that Franklin is being swept forward by.†   (source)
  • He accepted the idea that immigrant children wanted to attend school—and might therefore want to assimilate and contribute to the country—but he argued that it was a bad idea to educate them, as it overtaxed the education system and drained resources from long-standing citizens.†   (source)
  • what the onslaught of Iranian students did assimilate was a realization that the people could have a voice in determining their form of government, and it was this growth in political acumen that eventually brought about the shah's downfall.†   (source)
  • Much like the assimilated Jewish kids drawn to orthodox Sabbath services at Hillel House, Brown offers Chiniqua-who was reluctant to attend militant black rallies in Harlem or troll clubs on 125th Street-a sterling opportunity to reestablish her racial bona fides and validate her blackness.†   (source)
  • "Actually," the Seeker broke in, "it is very clearly stated in all recruitment propaganda that assimilating the remaining adult human hosts is much more challenging than assimilating a child.†   (source)
  • "Assuming that Rafi will be there," she said, subjugating the issue of assimilation to the question of survival.†   (source)
  • The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.†   (source)
  • Against her will she was assimilating.†   (source)
  • The racial dynamic of this group will soon evolve along the same grid as in classes of previous years: the kids eventually move past the initial division of black versus Hispanic to a solidarity along the deeper fault line-minority versus Caucasian-as they realize that they'll all face similar challenges assimilating into the white professional class.†   (source)
  • I think it's the overwhelming presence of these irrational elements crying for assimilation that creates the present bad quality, the chaotic, disconnected spirit of the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • We assumed assimilation was the answer.†   (source)
  • At present we are also snowed under with a lot of stylishness in the arts ...thin art ...because there's very little assimilation or extension into underlying form.†   (source)
  • The persistence of the dialect reflects, in part, the growing resistance of some young blacks to assimilate and their efforts to use language as part of a value system that prizes cultural distinction.†   (source)
  • Mexicans, he argues, do not assimilate and become truly American, because they do not embrace American values and ideals: they do not share the work ethic inherited from America's Anglo-Protestant culture; they do not have the same hunger for education; proportionately fewer go to college; fewer have incomes above $50,000 a year; fewer hold managerial positions.†   (source)
  • In his study of the history of immigration and language, The English-Only Question, Dennis Baron wrote: Settled Americans have been reluctant to accept newcomers, regarding them as socially, economically, and racially inferior, more insistent on special concessions like bilingual ballots, and on government handouts, and less willing to assimilate than earlier generations had been.†   (source)
  • So the census data do not provide evidence of a massive shift away from English acquisition, the first step in becoming assimilated.†   (source)
  • Pocho means a Mexican born in the United States and considered by real Mexicans to be so assimilated that they call him "American."†   (source)
  • David Brooks, a columnist in the New York Times, wrote that the most persuasive evidence is against Huntington, because "Mexicans are assimilating."†   (source)
  • Previous ethnic groups arrived in waves that began and ended, giving time for the immigrants to be assimilated, whereas the Mexican wave is continuous.†   (source)
  • For example, Spanish appears to be losing ground in San Antonio, where the very old Hispanic population has now been in large part assimilated into the Anglo community.†   (source)
  • That statistic raises the question, Will the traditional pattern of assimilation by the second and third generations repeat itself with Spanish-speaking immigrants today, or are their concentrated numbers too large?†   (source)
  • We examine the facts behind this anxiety: the rate at which Hispanic immigrants are assimilating into mainstream English compared with other immigrant groups in the past; the evidence that Spanish is a threat and the risks some see in playing on this fear.†   (source)
  • Steven Camarota, research director of the Center for Immigration Studies (which wants immigration limited), said the numbers raise a troubling question: "Is the level of immigration so high that it's overwhelming the assimilation process?†   (source)
  • The movement sees efforts at bilingual education in schools and government concessions to non-English speakers, such as election ballots in foreign languages, as wrongheaded, because they slow the acquisition of English and hence assimilation.†   (source)
  • Few cities had any intemperate demand for professional oyster-shuckers, but the people were somehow assimilated.†   (source)
  • Poor creatures, they certainly couldn't have known that that warm, assimilating, Jew-loving, humanistic bosom of Germany would turn to fire and ice and cast you out.†   (source)
  • miscarriage each for a different reason, deliberately as others might the ritual of birth, dedicated not to continuity but to some kind of interregnum; an aging night-watchman, nibbling at a bar of Ivory Soap, who had trained his virtuoso stomach to accept also lotions air-fresheners, fabrics, tobaccos and waxes in a hopeless attempt to assimilate it all, all the promise, productivity, betrayal, ulcers, before it was too late; and even another voyeur, who hung outside one of the city's still-lighted windows, searching for who knew what specific image.†   (source)
  • My assimilation into the mainstream of island life quickened after the Halloween trip, although I was not aware of it at that time.†   (source)
  • This truth was not quickly or easily assimilated by Randy Bragg, although he was better prepared for it than most.†   (source)
  • Working only three days a week allowed Sophie to keep body and soul together, in a manner of speaking, while also granting her extra days to improve her English at a free class at Brooklyn College and in general to become assimilated into the life of that vivid, vast and bustling borough.†   (source)
  • This last was a poser for me, who had not assimilated the old woman's conduct lessons.†   (source)
  • If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level.†   (source)
  • If anything turned out for disappointment in the town of Cluxambuqua the grief was somehow assimilated by the overwhelming immanence of the Andes and by the weather of quiet joy that flowed in and about the side-streets.†   (source)
  • I marked the ease with which my mind adjusted itself to assimilate the message—it might be (one has these fancies) to assume command of the British Empire; I observed my composure; I remarked with what magnificent vitality the atoms of my attention dispersed, swarmed round the interruption, assimilated the message, adapted themselves to a new state of affairs and had created, by the time I put back the receiver, a richer, stronger, a more complicated world in which I was called upon to act my part and had no doubt whatever that I could do it.†   (source)
  • as might exist between two people who, regardless of sex or age or heritage of race or tongue, had been marooned at birth on a desert island: the island here Sutpen's Hundred; the solitude, the shadow of that father with whom not only the town but their mother's family as well had merely assumed armistice rather than accepting and assimilating.†   (source)
  • Her mouth was dry as she assimilated this knowledge and she swallowed and looked into his eyes, trying to find some clue.†   (source)
  • It is the greatness of a selfless young spirit that assimilates all things and returns them to the world from which they came, enriched by the gentle brilliance of its own talent.†   (source)
  • For His ignoble idea is to eat the cake and have it; the creatures are to be one with Him, but yet themselves; merely to cancel them, or assimilate them, will not serve.†   (source)
  • The archetypes to be discovered and assimilated are precisely those that have inspired, throughout the annals of human culture, the basic images of ritual, mythology, and vision.†   (source)
  • But maybe I was wrong in that surmise, and maybe I could not have hurried the massive deliberation of that current in which we were caught and suspended, or hurried Anne Stanton's pensive and scholarly assimilation of each minute variation which had to be slowly absorbed into the body of our experience before another could be permitted.†   (source)
  • People had been coming in all day from the country, but they were assimilated in the town and you did not notice them.†   (source)
  • She could have known no more about it than the town knew because the ones who did know (Sutpen or Judith: not Ellen, who would have been told nothing in the first place and would have forgot, failed to assimilate, it if she had been—Ellen the butterfly, from beneath whom without warning the very sun-buoyed air had been withdrawn, leaving her now with the plump hands folded on the coverlet in the darkened room and the eyes above them probably not even suffering but merely filled with baffled incomprehension) would not have told her anymore than they would have told anyone in Jefferson or anywhere else.†   (source)
  • You might almost say he followed assimilation with his thoughts; all through his body that death had already moved in on, to the Washington of his brain, to his sex and to his studying eyes.†   (source)
  • I marked the ease with which my mind adjusted itself to assimilate the message—it might be (one has these fancies) to assume command of the British Empire; I observed my composure; I remarked with what magnificent vitality the atoms of my attention dispersed, swarmed round the interruption, assimilated the message, adapted themselves to a new state of affairs and had created, by the time I put back the receiver, a richer, stronger, a more complicated world in which I was called upon to act my part and had no doubt whatever that I could do it.†   (source)
  • The soul gravitates after death to the story appropriate to its relative density, there to digest and assimilate the whole meaning of its past life.†   (source)
  • The values and distinctions that in normal life seem important disappear with the terrifying assimilation of the self into what formerly was only otherness.†   (source)
  • We are taken from the mother, chewed into fragments, and assimilated to the world-annihilating body of the ogre for whom all the precious forms and beings are only the courses of a feast; but then, miraculously reborn, we are more than we were.†   (source)
  • The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream, discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.†   (source)
  • I shall not be dragged back by the arms, and none shall lay violent hold upon my hands.... As in the much later Buddhist image of the Bodhisattva within whose nimbus stand five hundred transformed Buddhas, each attended by five hundred Bodhisattvas, and each of these, in turn, by innumerable gods, so here, the soul comes to the fullness of its stature and power through assimilating the deities that formerly had been thought to be separate from and outside of it.†   (source)
  • In the first are encountered the instructive experiences of life; in the second these are digested, assimilated to the inner forces of the dreamer; while in the third all is enjoyed and known unconsciously, in the "space within the heart," the room of the inner controller, the source and end of all.†   (source)
  • In a word: the first work of the hero is to retreat from the world scene of secondary effects to those causal zones of the psyche where the difficulties really reside, and there to clarify the difficulties, eradicate them in his own case (i.e., give battle to the nursery demons of his local culture) and break through to the undistorted, direct experience and assimilation of what C. G. Jung has called "the archetypal images."†   (source)
  • Americans had manifestly assimilated much of the leisure of the Mexicans.†   (source)
  • Lily made a movement which showed her imperfect assimilation of this example.†   (source)
  • It would be no small business to remain herself, and yet to assimilate such an establishment.†   (source)
  • He was assimilating something from this valley of gleams and shadows.†   (source)
  • She might have been a help to Helen if she had not assimilated Western ways so swiftly.†   (source)
  • You're quite right, and it's not quite assimilated into the system.†   (source)
  • After eating, his food shows until it is assimilated.†   (source)
  • Kells was slow in assimilating the truth and his action corresponded with his mind.†   (source)
  • The moment was one of subtle and vital assimilation.†   (source)
  • From this strange girl he was assimilating more.†   (source)
  • It was discovered at a time when men were beginning to equalize and assimilate their conditions.†   (source)
  • —A name is a centre; profound assimilation.†   (source)
  • Middlemarch, in fact, counted on swallowing Lydgate and assimilating him very comfortably.†   (source)
  • Others have but to read an idea of somebody else's, and they can immediately assimilate it and believe that it was a child of their own brain.†   (source)
  • 'Scientific people,' proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, 'know very well that Time is only a kind of Space.†   (source)
  • Douglass, in his old age, still bravely stood for the ideals of his early manhood,—ultimate assimilation through self-assertion, and on no other terms.†   (source)
  • Neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them.†   (source)
  • It was something assimilated from the white man which made the Indian unhappy and alien in his own home—something meant to be good for him and his kind that had ruined him.†   (source)
  • Instead of working wickedness by night and growing more debased in the assimilating of it by day, she shall take her place with the other Angels.†   (source)
  • Here the class was reciting a lesson from an abstruse text-book on economics, reciting it by rote, with so obvious a failure to assimilate it that the waste of labour was pitiful.†   (source)
  • A field-man is a personality afield; a field-woman is a portion of the field; she had somehow lost her own margin, imbibed the essence of her surrounding, and assimilated herself with it.†   (source)
  • Amory's mind was working slowly, trying to assimilate what had happened and separate from the chaotic imagery that stacked his memory the bare shreds of truth.†   (source)
  • And even in terms of the objects and faces that made up the details of a day, Hans Castorp had to learn at every step to take a closer, less casual look at accustomed facts and faces and assimilate new things with youthful receptivity.†   (source)
  • Carley wondered whether Glenn's casual, easy tone had been adopted for her benefit or was merely an assimilation from this Western life.†   (source)
  • She felt her own development—the beginning of a bitter and hard education—an instinctive assimilation of all that nature taught its wild people and creatures, the first thing in elemental life—self-preservation.†   (source)
  • It helped her to assimilate and arrange the practical details of cattle-raising as put forth by the blunt Stillwell.†   (source)
  • When we've assimilated the foreigners we got here now and learned 'em the principles of Americanism and turned 'em into regular folks, why then maybe we'll let in a few more.†   (source)
  • The novelist's happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial sections, things, that is, which the spirit can assimilate to itself.†   (source)
  • I was learning, as all young and inexperienced persons learn, by assimilation and imitation, to put ideas into words.†   (source)
  • She must remain herself, for his sake as well as her own, since a shadowy wife degrades the husband whom she accompanies; and she must assimilate for reasons of common honesty, since she had no right to marry a man and make him uncomfortable.†   (source)
  • The destruction of the body by fire—what a neat, hygienic, dignified, and indeed heroic idea that was in comparison with letting it decompose miserably on its own and be assimilated by lower forms of life.†   (source)
  • Madeline was assured of the splendid physical fitness to which this ranch life had developed her, and that she was assimilating something of the Western disregard of danger.†   (source)
  • The doctor here will bear me out that on one occasion I tried to kill him for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with my own body of his life through the medium of his blood, relying of course, upon the Scriptural phrase, 'For the blood is the life.'†   (source)
  • The liberalizing tendencies of the latter half of the eighteenth century brought, along with kindlier relations between black and white, thoughts of ultimate adjustment and assimilation.†   (source)
  • I was touched by my friend's kindness in having procured the book for me; and as everyone is obliged to find some reason for his passion, so much so that he is glad to find in the creature whom he loves qualities which (he has learned by reading or in conversation) are worthy to excite a man's love, that he assimilates them by imitation and makes out of them fresh reasons for his love, even although these qualities be diametrically opposed to those for which his love would have sought, so long as it was spontaneous—as Swann, before my day, had sought to establish the aesthetic basis of Odette's beauty—I, who had at first loved Gilberte, in Combray days, o†   (source)
  • This habit of assimilating what pleased me and giving it out again as my own appears in much of my early correspondence and my first attempts at writing.†   (source)
  • At that moment, with her blood hot and racing, she would have gloried in the violence which she had so deplored: she would have welcomed the action that had characterized Stewart's treatment of Don Carlos; she had in her the sudden dawning temper of a woman who had been assimilating the life and nature around her and who would not have turned her eyes away from a harsh and bloody deed.†   (source)
  • And then the thing that struck into Joan's heart was the fact that her grace and charm of person, revealed by this costume forced upon her, had aroused Jim Cleve's first response to the evil surrounding him, the first call to that baseness he must be assimilating from these border ruffians.†   (source)
  • The free Negroes of the North, inspired by the mulatto immigrants from the West Indies, began to change the basis of their demands; they recognized the slavery of slaves, but insisted that they themselves were freemen, and sought assimilation and amalgamation with the nation on the same terms with other men.†   (source)
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