All 24 Uses of
appreciate
in
War and Peace
- And really you appreciate them less than anyone, and so you don't deserve to have them."†
Chpt 1
- The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully prepared to continue, but just then Anna Pavlovna, who had kept a watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbe, so she hurried to the rescue.†
Chpt 1
- Before Anna Pavlovna and the others had time to smile their appreciation of the vicomte's epigram, Pierre again broke into the conversation, and though Anna Pavlovna felt sure he would say something inappropriate, she was unable to stop him.†
Chpt 1
- Though it was unintelligible why he had told it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pavlovna and the others appreciated Prince Hippolyte's social tact in so agreeably ending Pierre's unpleasant and unamiable outburst.†
Chpt 1
- He is so well known, so much appreciated by everyone.†
Chpt 1 *
- But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Marya Dmitrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual severity.†
Chpt 1
- "Who sacrificed everything for him," chimed in the princess, who would again have risen had not the prince still held her fast, "though he never could appreciate it.†
Chpt 1
- *(2) In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilibin did not forget to pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation.†
Chpt 2
- Mademoiselle Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her off; and here at last was a Russian prince.†
Chpt 3
- Her face wore the proud expression of a surgeon who has just performed a difficult operation and admits the public to appreciate his skill.†
Chpt 3
- At that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss, long past.†
Chpt 4 *
- He could not conceive that a stupid chance, letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left, might deprive him of all this happiness, newly appreciated and newly illumined, and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined misery.†
Chpt 4
- Moreover, Speranski, either because he appreciated the other's capacity or because he considered it necessary to win him to his side, showed off his dispassionate calm reasonableness before Prince Andrew and flattered him with that subtle flattery which goes hand in hand with self-assurance and consists in a tacit assumption that one's companion is the only man besides oneself capable of understanding the folly of the rest of mankind and the reasonableness and profundity of one's own…†
Chpt 6
- She was surrounded by young men who, she fancied, had suddenly learned to appreciate her worth.†
Chpt 8
- Count Rostov approved of this suggestion, appreciating its reasonableness.†
Chpt 8
- "But a large number of monasteries and churches is always a sign of the backwardness of a people," said Napoleon, turning to Caulaincourt for appreciation of this remark.†
Chpt 9
- This reply of Balashev's, which hinted at the recent defeats of the French in Spain, was much appreciated when he related it at Alexander's court, but it was not much appreciated at Napoleon's dinner, where it passed unnoticed.†
Chpt 9
- This reply of Balashev's, which hinted at the recent defeats of the French in Spain, was much appreciated when he related it at Alexander's court, but it was not much appreciated at Napoleon's dinner, where it passed unnoticed.†
Chpt 9
- So little was his rejoinder appreciated that Napoleon did not notice it at all and naively asked Balashev through what towns the direct road from there to Moscow passed.†
Chpt 9
- "No, that's impossible," said he, "for our sovereign appreciated him so highly before."†
Chpt 10
- Princess Mary understood this and appreciated his delicacy.†
Chpt 10
- The clerk glanced round, evidently hoping that his joke would be appreciated.†
Chpt 10
- …"but should it ever be ordained by Divine Providence," he continued, raising to heaven his fine eyes shining with emotion, "that my dynasty should cease to reign on the throne of my ancestors, then after exhausting all the means at my command, I shall let my beard grow to here" (he pointed halfway down his chest) "and go and eat potatoes with the meanest of my peasants, rather than sign the disgrace of my country and of my beloved people whose sacrifices I know how to appreciate."†
Chpt 12
- Here and now for the first time he fully appreciated the enjoyment of eating when he wanted to eat, drinking when he wanted to drink, sleeping when he wanted to sleep, of warmth when he was cold, of talking to a fellow man when he wished to talk and to hear a human voice.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(appreciate as in: I appreciate your help.) to recognize the value or importance of
and/or:
to be grateful for
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(appreciate as in: We hope our home will appreciate) to increase in value