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  • He was forcing the next world to seep into my consciousness, stupendous events that seemed matter-of-fact to him, self-evident, reasonable, imminent, true.†   (source)
  • This reading, however, in addition to being self-evident, seemed unlikely for another reason.†   (source)
  • If you had done so, the inappropriateness of someone of your age and standing addressing him as 'William' should have been self-evident to you.†   (source)
  • He was, they decided, not like them at all, and the detached and aloof manner in which he watched the snowfall made this palpable and self-evident.†   (source)
  • This was an idea he had always had, and it was thus self-evident to Descartes that such an idea could not possibly have come from himself.†   (source)
  • I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."†   (source)
  • It was more a statement of truth and wonder than a question-the answer being self-evident-and one he felt uncertain making.†   (source)
  • In a ringing preamble, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the document declared it "self-evident" that "all men are created equal," and were endowed with the "unalienable" rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."†   (source)
  • The matter is probably not quite as self-evident as Fru Giannini is presenting it.†   (source)
  • But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do otherwise; he had learned only that they did.†   (source)
  • Her hair, her skin, were there to see, self-evident, and it was obvious how some other color (or colors) ran deep within her.†   (source)
  • But these words were left intact: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."†   (source)
  • He also said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."†   (source)
  • Since it was able to maintain delta-V such as to decelerate into the system, that ability is self-evident.†   (source)
  • She spread her hands as if it were all self-evident.†   (source)
  • Around the picture-which sometimes blindly reflected the window by its darkness-was a frame enameled with flowers, which was always self-evident-Miss Eckhart's pride.†   (source)
  • I think it's self-evident that you were, if anything, his only hope."†   (source)
  • One would have thought that quite self-evident.†   (source)
  • The more self-evident a thing is to one's reason, the more certain it is that it exists.†   (source)
  • After a few moments, an explanation presented itself that, upon reflection, seemed self-evident.†   (source)
  • She spread her hands out in an astonished gesture to indicate the self-evident.†   (source)
  • If 'e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ….†   (source)
  • The whole action seemed somehow self-evident, being strangely mechanical.†   (source)
  • The boy glanced at him with indignant astonishment, as if the answer were self-evident.†   (source)
  • It's self-evident," Arnold said.†   (source)
  • Her daughter was always off and away in her mind, grappling with some unspoken, self-imposed problem, as though the weary, self-evident world could be reinvented by a child.†   (source)
  • We're talking about looking clearly at the defendant and seeing the truth self-evident in him and in the facts present in this case.†   (source)
  • That God exists was therefore just as self-evident for Descartes as that a thinking being must exist.†   (source)
  • He had precise ideas about where and when a woman should be seen smoking: not in the street, or any other public place, not on entering a room, not standing up, and only when offered, never from her own supply—notions as self-evident to him as natural justice.†   (source)
  • Where, in the initial draft, certain "truths" were described as "sacred and undeniable," a simpler, stronger "self-evident" was substituted.†   (source)
  • I remember being accompanied by them on the first day of school, in my new serge uniform with brass buttons that they had fitted just for me, and how the other boys had let us pass without even a murmur, this prominent family Kurohata (a name, as is self-evident, I've since shortened).†   (source)
  • It was Jefferson who had written them for all time : We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.†   (source)
  • This last was stated without explanation or elaboration, as if the words "profit motive" were the self-evident brand of ultimate evil.†   (source)
  • Once, briefly, a difference in philosophy was touched upon, when Jefferson observed that the "paper transactions" of one generation should "scarcely be considered by succeeding generations," a principle he had earlier stated to 'Madison as "self-evident," that " 'the earth belongs in usufruct to the living': that the dead have neither the power or rights over it."†   (source)
  • The impulse of the habit of reason almost pushed her to speak, to argue, to demonstrate the self-evident-but she looked at their faces and she saw that they knew it.†   (source)
  • You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident.†   (source)
  • You know, there was a time when everyone thought it self-evident that the earth was flat.†   (source)
  • The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.†   (source)
  • That was, indeed, self-evident.†   (source)
  • That Repin can paint so realistically that identifications are self-evident immediately and without any effort on the part of the spectator -- that is miraculous.†   (source)
  • Why then waste words, why utter a thing that every thinking man accepts as self-evident, when the mere utterance of it is a breach of taste?†   (source)
  • The peasant is also pleased by the wealth of self-evident meanings which he finds in the picture: "it tells a story.†   (source)
  • But it's self-evident!" said the Dean.†   (source)
  • True, one could always refuse to face this disagreeable fact, shut one's eyes to it, or thrust it out of mind, but there is a terrible cogency in the self-evident; ultimately it breaks down all defenses.†   (source)
  • His manner implied a self-evident necessity, as if his reason were known to her and there could be nothing improper in this behavior.†   (source)
  • It's self-evident," said Eve Layton.†   (source)
  • They agreed with every sentence; they had heard it before, they had always heard it, this was what the world lived by; it was self-evident—like a puddle before one's feet.†   (source)
  • It's self-evident.†   (source)
  • It's self-evident.†   (source)
  • As this proposition was self-evident, no one denied its justice.†   (source)
  • History seems to assume that this force is self-evident and known to everyone.†   (source)
  • Every prejudice that will answer these purposes is self-evident.†   (source)
  • The impossibility of keeping him concealed in the chambers was self-evident.†   (source)
  • In conclusion, the general observed that his wife took as great an interest in the prince as though he were her own son; and that she had commenced to be especially affectionate towards Aglaya was a self-evident fact.†   (source)
  • To take the first example to hand, I very clearly perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted even so self-evident a thing as that.†   (source)
  • How could there be any objection to the pressures of a daily schedule so gentle and so self-evident; indeed, there could have been no reason whatever to object, even if the consul's critical abilities had not been diminished by a condition that he could not actually call sickness, but that consisted of both fatigue and agitation, accompanied by a sense of being simultaneously feverish and chilled.†   (source)
  • He had heard that statement so often, and he could not see why it was true; they did not know the conditions as he did, why should they accept it as self-evident that their greater age gave them greater wisdom?†   (source)
  • You cannot fail to discover that the beliefs which to you are self-evident to the foreigner are absurd.†   (source)
  • "For if," said he, with the sort of self-evident proposition which many a clearer head does not always avoid, "we are too long going over the house, we shall not have time for what is to be done out of doors.†   (source)
  • I do not think that the system of interest, as it is professed in America, is, in all its parts, self-evident; but it contains a great number of truths so evident that men, if they are but educated, cannot fail to see them.†   (source)
  • …have hither to occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course, We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted,…†   (source)
  • It was a maxim about Middlemarch, and regarded as self-evident, that good meat should have good drink, which last Dagley interpreted as plenty of table ale well followed up by rum-and-water.†   (source)
  • He added as a self-evident proposition, engendering low spirits, "But you can't marry, you know, while you're looking about you."†   (source)
  • When governments display so much weakness, and laws so much inconstancy, the danger is self-evident, but it is no longer possible to avoid it; to be effectual, measures must be taken to discover its approach.†   (source)
  • And I wondered at the time that such simple and self-evident ideas should be so slow to occur to our minds.†   (source)
  • The gravity of events was self-evident.†   (source)
  • For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.†   (source)
  • Both Cap and the Sergeant saw the truth of this, which would have been nearly self-evident even to one unaccustomed to vessels.†   (source)
  • The matter is absolutely self-evident.†   (source)
  • By every civilized and peaceful method we must strive for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly to those great words which the sons of the Fathers would fain forget: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."†   (source)
  • A little too self-evident.†   (source)
  • That is self-evident on the face of it.†   (source)
  • You will remember, perhaps, how desperately the Prefect laughed when I suggested, upon our first interview, that it was just possible this mystery troubled him so much on account of its being so very self-evident.†   (source)
  • I cannot conceive that a truth which is so self-evident should not already have been more generally admitted in Europe; it is comprehensible that the persons who hope to bring about revolutions by means of the press should be desirous of confining its action to a few powerful organs, but it is perfectly incredible that the partisans of the existing state of things, and the natural supporters of the law, should attempt to diminish the influence of the press by concentrating its…†   (source)
  • Doctor Herzenstube roundly declared that the abnormality of the prisoner's mental faculties was self-evident.†   (source)
  • These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.†   (source)
  • Why take pains to prove that an Ape is not a Newton when it is self-evident that he is not a man?†   (source)
  • Edward was, of course, immediately convinced that nothing could have been more natural than Lucy's conduct, nor more self-evident than the motive of it.†   (source)
  • His pleasing manners and good sense were self-evident recommendations; and having never heard evil of him, it was not their way to suppose any evil could be told.†   (source)
  • That the crown is this overbearing part in the English constitution, needs not be mentioned, and that it derives its whole consequence merely from being the giver of places and pensions, is self-evident, wherefore, though we have been wise enough to shut and lock a door against absolute monarchy, we at the same time have been foolish enough to put the crown in possession of the key.†   (source)
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.†   (source)
  • It is in reality a self-evident position: For no nation in a state of foreign dependance, limited in its commerce, and cramped and fettered in its legislative powers, can ever arrive at any material eminence.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Dashwood, not less watchful of what passed than her daughter, but with a mind very differently influenced, and therefore watching to very different effect, saw nothing in the Colonel's behaviour but what arose from the most simple and self-evident sensations, while in the actions and words of Marianne she persuaded herself to think that something more than gratitude already dawned.†   (source)
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