All 29 Uses of
deliberate
in
War and Peace
- "You are mistaken," said Boris deliberately, with a bold and slightly sarcastic smile.†
Chpt 1
- "One thing I ask of your excellency," Dolokhov said in his firm, ringing, deliberate voice.†
Chpt 2
- "All I can say, General," said he with a pleasant elegance of expression and intonation that obliged one to listen to each deliberately spoken word.†
Chpt 2
- The colonel deliberately stopped the regiment and turned to Nesvitski.†
Chpt 2
- His eyes narrowed disdainfully, he entered the room of the Minister of War with peculiarly deliberate steps.†
Chpt 2
- He had an intellectual and distinctive head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and habitual to him.†
Chpt 2
- "Very good!" said Bagration in reply to the officer's report, and began deliberately to examine the whole battlefield extended before him.†
Chpt 2
- Prince Vasili was not a man who deliberately thought out his plans.†
Chpt 3
- Rostov was a truthful young man and would on no account have told a deliberate lie.†
Chpt 3
- But before he had thought of anything, Dolokhov, looking straight in his face, said slowly and deliberately so that everyone could hear: "Do you remember we had a talk about cards….†
Chpt 4
- "So you are not afraid to play with me?" repeated Dolokhov, and as if about to tell a good story he put down the cards, leaned back in his chair, and began deliberately with a smile: "Yes, gentlemen, I've been told there's a rumor going about Moscow that I'm a sharper, so I advise you to be careful."†
Chpt 4
- "I have the pleasure of addressing Count Bezukhov, if I am not mistaken," said the stranger in a deliberate and loud voice.†
Chpt 5
- Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting.†
Chpt 5 *
- Great God, help me to walk in Thy paths, (1) to conquer anger by calmness and deliberation, (2) to vanquish lust by self-restraint and repulsion, (3) to withdraw from worldliness, but not avoid (a) the service of the state, (b) family duties, (c) relations with my friends, and the management of my affairs.†
Chpt 6
- The aide-de-camp, an adept in his art, grasping his partner firmly round her waist, with confident deliberation started smoothly, gliding first round the edge of the circle, then at the corner of the room he caught Helene's left hand and turned her, the only sound audible, apart from the ever-quickening music, being the rhythmic click of the spurs on his rapid, agile feet, while at every third beat his partner's velvet dress spread out and seemed to flash as she whirled round.†
Chpt 6
- Had he forced her to prostrate herself to the ground all night, had he beaten her or made her fetch wood or water, it would never have entered her mind to think her position hard; but this loving despot—the more cruel because he loved her and for that reason tormented himself and her—knew how not merely to hurt and humiliate her deliberately, but to show her that she was always to blame for everything.†
Chpt 8
- Though the performance was proceeding, he walked deliberately down the carpeted gangway, his sword and spurs slightly jingling and his handsome perfumed head held high.†
Chpt 8
- Balaga took his seat in the front one and holding his elbows high arranged the reins deliberately.†
Chpt 8
- Four days ago in this room, Wintzingerode and Stein were deliberating," continued Napoleon with the same derisive and self-confident smile.†
Chpt 9
- It was on the very fact of being so young that Petya counted for success in reaching the Emperor—he even thought how surprised everyone would be at his youthfulness—and yet in the arrangement of his collar and hair and by his sedate deliberate walk he wished to appear a grown-up man.†
Chpt 9
- But the farther he went and the more his attention was diverted by the ever-increasing crowds moving toward the Kremlin, the less he remembered to walk with the sedateness and deliberation of a man.†
Chpt 9
- He hardened his heart against the senator who was introducing this set and narrow attitude into the deliberations of the nobility.†
Chpt 9
- This committee came to the conclusion that our failures were due to a want of unity in the command and though the members of the committee were aware of the Emperor's dislike of Kutuzov, after a short deliberation they agreed to advise his appointment as commander in chief.†
Chpt 10
- Dans le doute, mon cher," he paused, "abstiens-toi" *(2)—he articulated the French proverb deliberately.†
Chpt 10
- They waited for him from four till six o'clock and did not begin their deliberations all that time but talked in low tones of other matters.†
Chpt 11
- Then Efim deliberately doffed his hat and began crossing himself.†
Chpt 11
- His voice was calm and deliberate.†
Chpt 11
- The third and most incomprehensible thing is that people studying history deliberately avoid seeing that this flank march cannot be attributed to any one man, that no one ever foresaw it, and that in reality, like the retreat from Fili, it did not suggest itself to anyone in its entirety, but resulted—moment by moment, step by step, event by event—from an endless number of most diverse circumstances and was only seen in its entirety when it had been accomplished and belonged to the…†
Chpt 13
- But people who talk like that either do not know what they are talking about or deliberately deceive themselves.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care