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  • I suppose she's trying to cultivate a spirit of humility in Anne by dressing her as she does;   (source)
    cultivate = enhance growth or development of
  • He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts,   (source)
    cultivated = where crops are gown
  • Marek was strong, and Ambrosch worked him hard; but he could never teach him to cultivate corn, I remember.   (source)
    cultivate = grow
  • From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.   (source)
    cultivate = enhance growth or development of
  • he'll begin to cultivate his patch of land, and then your cherry orchard will be happy, rich, splendid.   (source)
    cultivate = make land suitable for growing plants
  • And that cultivates deceit, for I don't tell them I'm awake—O no!   (source)
    cultivates = enhances development of
  • It was the only open and cultivated field for a great distance on either side of the road,   (source)
    cultivated = developed (able to grow crops)
  • He planted them day and night, and cultivated them.†   (source)
  • Dad said the hills around Welch were too steep for cultivating much of anything.†   (source)
  • Finally, through intense indoctrination, beatings, and desensitization, its army cultivated and celebrated extreme brutality in its soldiers.†   (source)
  • Now that they had left the cultivated fields behind them, it was almost impossible to find food.†   (source)
  • There was no use trying to reason with a person who was cultivating one long oily hair on her lip.†   (source)
  • She stared at his forehead, with the cultivated blankness she had once used on Mr. Erskine, and I saw we were in for trouble.†   (source)
  • The dogs' attention spans were long now and they began to show rare, unnameable talents, which Edgar cultivated for hours in lieu of being in the house.†   (source)
  • Even though their condominium has only a tiny garden, they have managed to cultivate an enviable cornucopia of figs, pomegranates, sweet lemons, and herbs.†   (source)
  • He had also predicted the ecological disasters that would come with cultivation of genetically modified crops.†   (source)
  • That independence won Walter some measure of respect and admiration, but it also cultivated contempt and suspicion, especially outside of Monroeville's black community.†   (source)
  • I wondered if it was something she'd actually cultivated deliberately.†   (source)
  • Due to the preponderance of such agricultural methods in the cultivation of illegal substances, we order you to cease and desist immediately....†   (source)
  • What marvels does science cultivate here now?†   (source)
  • Successfully growing crops in Hab with cultivated soil.†   (source)
  • He was the first person in America to cultivate water chestnuts on any considerable scale, having planted fifty acres of them in a former rice paddy south of Savannah.†   (source)
  • Ron had lowered his leaflet on jobs in the Cultivated Fungus Trade and was watching the conversation warily.†   (source)
  • The most respected men, in accordance with the ethos that had evolved on San Piedro, pursued no one and cultivated radio silence.†   (source)
  • I went through a period of obsessively cultivating rare corpse flowers.†   (source)
  • In any case, Alex had cultivated a persona on the job, one that was there to give offenders an equal voice in the legal system, without letting clients get under her skin.†   (source)
  • I just kept quiet; I was cultivating my Canadian friendships, and most of my friends thought that Trudeau could do no wrong, that he was a prince.†   (source)
  • Once the old chemicals have leached from the ground, he talks of cleaning the ponds and raising catfish and giant prawns, of cultivating fancy vegetables on the organic strip, charging premium prices in "Lutz's Corner" of the Hy-Vee.†   (source)
  • At first my mother tried to cultivate some hidden genius in me.†   (source)
  • But friendships were not easy to cultivate.†   (source)
  • He was gallant and cultivated; he recited verses and poems while making love to them.†   (source)
  • I cultivated it, you know?†   (source)
  • He began to cultivate his corpulence and general physical dilapidation.†   (source)
  • The Catholic Church, through its Inquisition, is famous for cultivating Lucifer as the arch-fiend, but the Church's enemies relied no less upon the Old Boy to keep the human mind enthralled.†   (source)
  • Again he laughed —a big man's laugh, rich and rough and at odds with his carefully cultivated voice.†   (source)
  • And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!†   (source)
  • He makes up for it by cultivating a tougher image.†   (source)
  • Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snow's greenhouse.†   (source)
  • Most importantly, we demonstrated to the world that if students were reared in humane, cultivated environments, it was possible for them to grow to be as sensitive and intelligent as any ordinary human being.†   (source)
  • Before long the countryside began to change as cultivated fields yielded to wilder land.†   (source)
  • She had always been prone to jealousy, rage, and bitter hatred, but now she had fuel for all three to last a lifetime, and she cultivated them until— Abandoning herself to her wrath, she slipped into her mother's dressing room.†   (source)
  • I cultivated my beard and extended my ears.†   (source)
  • Doesn't take to cultivation.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure he would, but Mameha assured me that a man doesn't cultivate a relationship with a fifteen-year-old apprentice geisha unless he has her mizuage in mind.†   (source)
  • I'd never seen him so completely freed of that carefully cultivated facade.†   (source)
  • Gerald spends most of his time in his vegetable garden, his nails permanently blackened from his careful cultivation of lettuce and herbs.†   (source)
  • During his recuperation Olmsted ordered bulbs and plants for cultivation in two large nurseries established on the fairgrounds.†   (source)
  • The titles were near as long as books themselves: Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the Manufacture of Wool, and the Cultivation and Manufacture of Flax, by John Wily, or Cato Major, Or His Discourse of Old-Age: With Explanatory Notes, by M. T. Cicero, or Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phillis Wheatley, and countless tracts containing sermons and advice.†   (source)
  • His voice reminded me a little of Willem's, deep, cultivated, the German with only a trace of Dutch accent.†   (source)
  • Marocchino also cultivated a close relationship with news correspondents by wining and dining them during their stay in Mogadishu.†   (source)
  • "We're cultivating the soil, sister," he said.†   (source)
  • Learning how to blend in and go undercover, I cultivated my inner jazz musician and grew a goatee.†   (source)
  • Politics The undesirability of cultivating extremes is also expressed in Aristotle's view of society.†   (source)
  • We were told it had similar terrain to Dajai, a model area where peasants cultivated fruit trees and crops in rocky mountainous conditions.†   (source)
  • The skills cultivated by these people were passed down in secret from one generation to the next and manifested themselves two thousand years later, in Europe, among the kabbalistic sorcerers, ba'al shems, masters of the divine name.†   (source)
  • Marcos maintained that his niece's gift could be a source of income and a good opportunity for him to cultivate his own clairvoyance.†   (source)
  • Painfully, I made the two hundred yards to a flat field which had been cultivated and recently harvested.†   (source)
  • Luma encouraged—or perhaps demanded—that her younger sister, Inam, cultivate self-sufficiency, often against Inam's own instincts or wishes.†   (source)
  • I have a good ear for recognizing styles in music, and I cultivated that.†   (source)
  • She was impressed by its simplicity and seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.†   (source)
  • It's important to cultivate detachment.†   (source)
  • Someone at the botanical gardens in Uppsala would later confirm that it was a plant seldom cultivated in Sweden.†   (source)
  • Every day I reclaimed from the rocky soil of the hill a few more feet of earth to cultivate.†   (source)
  • They insisted the plants were new to them and that they cultivated them as research, for the blossoms.†   (source)
  • I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.†   (source)
  • Working in the yard is Ralph's favorite activity; he likes to weed, to plant, to cultivate.†   (source)
  • They were all Hitler majors, members of the only class I still taught, Advanced Nazism, three hours a week, restricted to qualified seniors, a course of study designed to cultivate historical perspective, theoretical rigor and mature insight into the continuing mass appeal of fascist tyranny, with special emphasis on parades, rallies and uniforms, three credits, written reports.†   (source)
  • When that didn't work, she stressed the tax deduction angle, and—because she had worked hard to cultivate contacts with tax and estate lawyers throughout the South—she often received items before other libraries even found out about them.†   (source)
  • I hear myself speaking in the voice I cultivated as an initiation instructor, but this time I use it in jest.†   (source)
  • New friendships, faulty ground to cultivate and build a future upon.†   (source)
  • And because the taste for obscenity is universal and the appetite for reality rare and hard to cultivate, he had nearly perished in the basement of his private life.†   (source)
  • Not many tourists visit Mount Elgon, so Monet and his friend were probably driving the only vehicle on the road, although there would have been crowds of people walking on foot, villagers who cultivate small farms on the lower slopes of the mountain.†   (source)
  • Often the members work together, cultivating one family's field one day and another's the next time.†   (source)
  • Hema thought of Shiva, her personal deity, and how the only sensible response to the madness of life in this her thirtieth year was to cultivate a kind of madness within, to perform the mad dance of Shiva, to mimic the rigid masking smile of Shiva, to rock and sway and flap six arms and six legs to an inner tune, a tabla beat.†   (source)
  • "Are there places like this in Sounis," asked Sophos, "where there aren't enough people to farm the cultivated land?"†   (source)
  • Instead, she had met and married Herb, a college classmate of her oldest brother, Glenn; actually, since the two families lived within twenty miles of each other, she had long known him by sight, but the Clutters, plain farm people, were not on visiting terms with the well-to-do and cultivated Foxes.†   (source)
  • But that fall, the hands-off approach we'd both cultivated had spilled over from just a few days here and there to all the time.†   (source)
  • "The mushrooms are elf-cultivated," Father said.†   (source)
  • He'd already begun the cultivation of cotton here and he would have been pleased to see the success it has made.†   (source)
  • He's got his own fancies to cultivate.†   (source)
  • You and I may do what we choose about cultivating the girl's mind—she'll marry a man of her own class, and there it will end.†   (source)
  • The region is well-cultivated, with very attractive plantations, but all their occupants had fled and all the houses had been or were being plundered and destroyed.†   (source)
  • Fourth, it was a sign of her originality, which she consciously cultivated.†   (source)
  • Farmer had cultivated him.†   (source)
  • He did it by cultivating boredom.†   (source)
  • There was genuine empathy in her eyes and in her demeanor, but there was also the cultivated wariness of the Iranian woman.†   (source)
  • And it requires cultivating.†   (source)
  • We cultivated it with our children.†   (source)
  • Born a brunette, she dyed her hair and began cultivating the "dumb blonde" persona that became her calling card.†   (source)
  • Cultivation stopped.†   (source)
  • Hazel sat nibbling and biting, the rich, full taste of the cultivated roots filling him with a wave of pleasure.†   (source)
  • I couldn't sing either, but I would cultivate what Merman had, or try: force of personality.†   (source)
  • Why cultivate a garden with only one plant in it?†   (source)
  • Kara had suggested he try to find a way to cultivate those in the green forest, as he had his fighting skills.†   (source)
  • A drive along two-lane Route 83 in the 1930's of Harlon's youth would reveal a flat, lush land dominated by small farms, large cultivated fields, and the occasional town of 1,000 to 2,000 people.†   (source)
  • How do you know so much about this—what, Immortal Blossom—if its cultivation is limited to the Eden Colony?†   (source)
  • He was in his late sixties, with salt-and-pepper hair and a mustache as clipped and cultivated as the vowels he'd inherited from the private British colonial school he'd attended as boy with Musharraf and many of Pakistan's other future leaders.†   (source)
  • They are punished for their virtue while the rest of the species cultivates and rewards its very worst traits.†   (source)
  • Dapper, cultivated, and acerbic, a leather briefcase tucked under his arm, he is a familiar figure on Broadway as the theater critic for New York magazine.†   (source)
  • 'Cultivate good speech, Miss Simpson,' she'd say, 'and you can marry above yourself.'†   (source)
  • I intend to stay and cultivate it and see if I can get something to grow.†   (source)
  • "We judge through cultivating scientific objectivity," he said with a voice that had a smile in it, and suddenly I saw the hospital machine, felt as though locked in again.†   (source)
  • A smart man would know how to use all of this-how to cultivate it, shape it, perhaps even control it to a certain degree-to spur it on and forward.†   (source)
  • A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.†   (source)
  • ...As to your concern that I would lie to you and take your money, let me assure you I don't cultivate enemies like you and the network your blackbird obviously controls any more than I would make enemies of my clients.†   (source)
  • Is her mind betraying her, cultivating delusion like a hothouse orchid?†   (source)
  • Nicolo asked just before dawn, as they began to walk southward through the cultivated valley twenty or thirty kilometers in length.†   (source)
  • Not without going along way inland, and that would take us into cultivated land and main roads; and I wouldn't know the way.†   (source)
  • Then there is the cultivation of the being.†   (source)
  • They cultivated that land with rice, cotton, taro, and kitchen crops.†   (source)
  • He had the shaggy appearance of a hippie, a look he cultivated after serving in the Navy during the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • The fields were cultivated, and goats and sheep grazed peacefully behind fences.†   (source)
  • After a mile or so I reached cultivated land, with the house in sight across three or four fields.†   (source)
  • In the first place this family has stayed out of politics and cultivated its own garden for over a hundred years — I see no reason for you to break that fine record.†   (source)
  • While the tzaddik cared for the conduct of the world, for the obtaining of heavenly grace, and especially for Israel's preservation and glorification, his adherents had to cultivate three kinds of virtues.†   (source)
  • He had cultivated this deafness for as many years as he had been married to Auntie.†   (source)
  • I will cultivate virtue.†   (source)
  • Most of the time, they were direct carry-overs from the five undoubtedly formative years he had spent as a regular panelist on "It's a Wise Child," when, rather than seem to flaunt his somewhat preposterous ability to quote, instantaneously and, usually, verbatim, almost anything he had ever read, or even listened to, with genuine interest, he cultivated a habit of furrowing his brow and appearing to stall for time, the way the other children on the program did.†   (source)
  • There was an open valley below him, partly cultivated, then a long bare rise to the Union line.†   (source)
  • Germany is fertile, cultivated and populous.†   (source)
  • It is the case that I have not been a man who has cultivated the relations that would make such a homecoming full and sanguine and joyous, and if anything occurs to me it is deep-felt gratitude to Liv Crawford and to Renny Banerjee as well, not only for the work and the ride home and the help with my things, but for the simple fact that they are present, walking the floors, pulling knobs, speaking and moving and filling the house with the most pleasing, ordinary reports.†   (source)
  • His only weapons against her were silence, truculence; he cultivated an occasional brooding intensity.†   (source)
  • Bungalows fronted the road, and behind the bungalows, like the folds of a hand fan, lay pastures and cultivated cropland.†   (source)
  • Every word in this letter was true, if rash; but Gilbert had carefully cultivated this candor in Napoleon.†   (source)
  • There was always work to do, whether it was cultivating, plowing, breaking in new crop land, or tilling the spring-thawed garden.†   (source)
  • I could parachute you into County Limerick this very day, Mr. McLean, and it is very likely that within a single year you'd be cultivating potatoes, courting an ugly Irish wench, and running guns for the IRA.†   (source)
  • Beyond this lay the fields, the clear cultivated land bordered by the forest.†   (source)
  • I cultivate this beard not for the usual given reasons of skin trouble or pain of shaving, nor for the secret purpose of covering a weak chin, but as pure unblushing decoration, much as a peacock finds pleasure in his tail.†   (source)
  • Tried to cultivate a faith in the literal truth of everything he wrote, even the idiocies and contradictions.†   (source)
  • Then in his soft and cultivated voice he said: "Are you ready to go?"†   (source)
  • "Cultivating my own gardens," said Sam.†   (source)
  • My father tried to cultivate Malinowski, but Malinowski detested my father.†   (source)
  • He had cultivated the habit of leaving his .45 automatic on the hall table and pocketing it as he left the house, as a man would put on his hat.†   (source)
  • The Gromekos were cultivated, hospitable, and great connoisseurs and lovers of music.†   (source)
  • Listening is an art to be cultivated; and the symphonies of the desert or the forest demand a finer ear than do the symphonies of the composers.†   (source)
  • Before long the city thinned out into the darkened evidences of the kind of flea-bitten semi-rurality which always peculiarly depressed him: mean little homes, and other inexplicably new and substantial, set too close together for any satisfying rural privacy or use, too far, too shapelessly apart to have adherence as any kind of community; mean little pieces of ill-cultivated land behind them, and alongside the road, between them, trash and slash and broken sheds and rained-out billboards: he passed a late, late streetcar, no passengers aboard, far out near the end of its run.†   (source)
  • He had a small still back in the farthest reaches of the place, on Mrs. McIntyre's land to be sure, but on land that she only owned and did not cultivate, on idle land that was not doing anybody any good.†   (source)
  • I'll cultivate my mind some other time.†   (source)
  • Did he dream of making her disloyal to that hopelessness that he saw very well she'd been cultivating down here?†   (source)
  • His own social circles in Boston—the rich, the cultivated and the influential—all turned against him.†   (source)
  • Powell found him charging through the rock garden of his desert home vigorously destroying desert flowers under the impression that he was cultivating, and conducting simultaneous conversations with a score of depressed people who followed him about like puppies.†   (source)
  • Between the huts were irregular patches of ill-cultivated mealies, and pumpkin vines trailed everywhere through plants and bushes and up over the walls and roofs, with the big amber-colored pumpkins scattered among the leaves.†   (source)
  • I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.   (source)
  • They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.   (source)
  • the land was cultivated.   (source)
    cultivated = ready for growing crops
  • A flag will cultivate a spirit of patriotism, Marilla.   (source)
    cultivate = enhance growth or development of
  • You ought to cultivate your imagination, you know.   (source)
  • "It would be if you'd only cultivate it," said Anne cheeringly.   (source)
  • It was a large garden, only half cultivated, with bushes, as big as summer-houses, of Marshal Niel roses, lime and orange trees, clumps of bamboos, and thickets of high grass.   (source)
    cultivated = with plants cared for by humans
  • I suppose she's trying to cultivate a spirit of humility in Anne by dressing her as she does; but it's more likely to cultivate envy and discontent.   (source)
    cultivate = enhance growth or development of
  • As a result Diana had abstained from any further imitative flights of imagination and did not think it prudent to cultivate a spirit of belief even in harmless dryads.   (source)
  • But Josie Pye, if deficient in some qualities that make for popularity, had at least a natural and inborn gift, duly cultivated, for walking board fences.   (source)
    cultivated = developed
  • It was limited to Diana and Anne at first, but soon it was extended to include Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis and one or two others who felt that their imaginations needed cultivating.   (source)
    cultivating = enhancement or growth
  • It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves.†   (source)
  • As a poet, I did not cultivate directness.†   (source)
  • Most of us, I think, shy away from this kind of cultivation of acquaintances.†   (source)
  • Simon watches Lydia as she glides across the room; she has that oiled walk they cultivate.†   (source)
  • I have not thought about cultivation since Before.†   (source)
  • How did this curse come to me, when it's God's own will to cultivate the soil!†   (source)
  • Is this the attitude you wish to cultivate in the rest of the Re'lar?†   (source)
  • They do, however, claim that we are not cultivated and refined to the same extent.†   (source)
  • This is the logic the reformers applied to the cultivation of young minds.†   (source)
  • The idea was not to cultivate the meaningless.†   (source)
  • But since you want to appear cultivated, you must do it like this.†   (source)
  • As his greed increased he also began to cultivate the land on which the roofleaf grew.†   (source)
  • They can only cultivate potential that is already there.†   (source)
  • He sees cultivated cactus on both sides.†   (source)
  • She helped cultivate them and truly gave them more skills than soccer.†   (source)
  • You must cultivate ecological, literacy among the people.†   (source)
  • Your work, your war work, is to cultivate your talent, and go in the direction it demands.†   (source)
  • Lareau calls the middle-class parenting style "concerted cultivation."†   (source)
  • And he stays, cultivating me like a small inheritance of land where his future resides.†   (source)
  • The fairy tale genre was passionately cultivated by the Romantics.†   (source)
  • "You deliberately cultivate this air, this bravura," she charged.†   (source)
  • These are key characteristics of the strategy of concerted cultivation.†   (source)
  • Rice has been cultivated in China for thousands of years.†   (source)
  • But in practical terms, concerted cultivation has enormous advantages.†   (source)
  • His parents believe in concerted cultivation.†   (source)
  • His childhood was the embodiment of concerted cultivation.†   (source)
  • Hardship is wonderful for cultivating power.†   (source)
  • The ground was fertile but too rough to cultivate and too dry.†   (source)
  • Genuine, rich coffee ground from beans cultivated on Roarke's plantation in South America.†   (source)
  • He also lived out a fantasy that he had probably cultivated since childhood.†   (source)
  • Before nasty humans cultivated us, we were wild.†   (source)
  • It was all part of that professional manner she cultivated: I'm capable.†   (source)
  • They cultivate a plant-like growth that they milk for its sap.†   (source)
  • He had built up a well-oiled network cultivated with equal portions of carrot and stick.†   (source)
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