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Notes from the Underground
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- I am sure you are fancying that ... However, I assure you I do not care if you are.... It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect.†
Chpt 1.1however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- But the reason why he wants sometimes to go off at a tangent may just be that he is PREDESTINED to make the road, and perhaps, too, that however stupid the "direct" practical man may be, the thought sometimes will occur to him that the road almost always does lead SOMEWHERE, and that the destination it leads to is less important than the process of making it, and that the chief thing is to save the well-conducted child from despising engineering, and so giving way to the fatal…
Chpt 1.9however = regardless of how
- Our romantic would rather go out of his mind—a thing, however, which very rarely happens—than take to open abuse, unless he had some other career in view; and he is never kicked out.†
Chpt 2.1however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- That, however, only happened to me once.†
Chpt 2.1
- By degrees, however, I grew used to that too.†
Chpt 2.2
- Everything, however, passed satisfactorily by a lazy and fascinating transition into the sphere of art, that is, into the beautiful forms of life, lying ready, largely stolen from the poets and novelists and adapted to all sorts of needs and uses.†
Chpt 2.2
- I had to call on Anton Antonitch, however, on Tuesday—his at-home day; so I had always to time my passionate desire to embrace humanity so that it might fall on a Tuesday.†
Chpt 2.2
- I had hated him, however, even in the lower forms, just because he was a pretty and playful boy.†
Chpt 2.3
- I hated the abrupt self-confident tone of his voice, his admiration of his own witticisms, which were often frightfully stupid, though he was bold in his language; I hated his handsome, but stupid face (for which I would, however, have gladly exchanged my intelligent one), and the free-and-easy military manners in fashion in the "'forties."†
Chpt 2.3
- Owing to its rarity, perhaps, any external event, however trivial, always made me feel as though some radical change in my life were at hand.
Chpt 2.3 *however = regardless of how
- I went to the office, however, as usual, but sneaked away home two hours earlier to get ready.†
Chpt 2.3however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- It had not occurred to the waiter, however, to bring them in at once when I arrived.†
Chpt 2.4
- There was not a word about the marriage, however, but the story was adorned with generals, colonels and kammer-junkers, while Zverkov almost took the lead among them.†
Chpt 2.4
- I love thought, Monsieur Zverkov; I love true comradeship, on an equal footing and not ...H'm ...I love ...But, however, why not?†
Chpt 2.4
- She could not, however, have been called a beauty, though she was tall, strong-looking, and well built.†
Chpt 2.5 *
- I was drunk when I came here, though," I hastened, however, to say in self-defence.†
Chpt 2.6
- VIII It was some time, however, before I consented to recognise that truth.†
Chpt 2.8
- I was particularly pleased with a certain lightness, almost carelessness (strictly within the bounds of politeness, however), which was apparent in my style, and better than any possible arguments, gave them at once to understand that I took rather an independent view of "all that unpleasantness last night"; that I was by no means so utterly crushed as you, my friends, probably imagine; but on the contrary, looked upon it as a gentleman serenely respecting himself should look upon it.†
Chpt 2.8
- But, however, "Liza will very likely come all the same," was the refrain with which all my reflections ended.†
Chpt 2.8
- One day passed, however, another and another; she did not come and I began to grow calmer.†
Chpt 2.8
- I pretend not to understand (I don't know, however, why I pretend, just for effect, perhaps).†
Chpt 2.8
- I conquered myself, however, and raised my head; I had to do so sooner or later ...and I am convinced to this day that it was just because I was ashamed to look at her that another feeling was suddenly kindled and flamed up in my heart ...a feeling of mastery and possession.†
Chpt 2.9
- I did not hate her so much, however, when I was running about the room and peeping through the crack in the screen.†
Chpt 2.10
- I gave a spiteful grin, which was forced, however, to KEEP UP APPEARANCES, and I turned away from her eyes.†
Chpt 2.10
- [The notes of this paradoxalist do not end here, however†
Chpt 2.10however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using "though", "in spite of that", "in contrast", "nevertheless", etc.
- However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me.†
Chpt 1.1
- I am by no means such a mirthful person as you imagine, or as you may imagine; however, irritated by all this babble (and I feel that you are irritated) you think fit to ask me who I am—then my answer is, I am a collegiate assessor.†
Chpt 1.1
- One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy—is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms.†
Chpt 1.7
- I had however one other acquaintance of a sort, Simonov, who was an old schoolfellow.†
Chpt 2.2
- He was always bad at his lessons and got worse and worse as he went on; however, he left with a good certificate, as he had powerful interests.†
Chpt 2.3
- However, I knew I should go and should not pay him his wages.†
Chpt 2.3
- However, I told him at once what my salary was.†
Chpt 2.4
- Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.†
Chpt 2.6
- However bad it may be at home, anyway they are your father and mother, and not enemies, strangers.†
Chpt 2.6
- However you beg you won't get a drink of water without abuse: 'Whenever are you going off, you nasty hussy, you won't let us sleep with your moaning, you make the gentlemen sick.'†
Chpt 2.7
- Nothing but filth and mud, however you knock at your coffin lid at night, when the dead arise, however you cry: 'Let me out, kind people, to live in the light of day!†
Chpt 2.7
- Nothing but filth and mud, however you knock at your coffin lid at night, when the dead arise, however you cry: 'Let me out, kind people, to live in the light of day!†
Chpt 2.7
- However, he persisted in saying nothing, and that infuriated me.†
Chpt 2.8
- However ...would you like tea?†
Chpt 2.9
- Tomorrow I should have defiled her soul and have exhausted her heart, while now the feeling of insult will never die in her heart, and however loathsome the filth awaiting her—the feeling of insult will elevate and purify her ...by hatred ...h'm!†
Chpt 2.10
Definitions:
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(however as in: However, complications may...) though (or another expression that connects contrasting ideas)Based on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 exists, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrast and but.
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(however as in: However much she tried...) to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
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(however as in: However you do it, get it done!) in whatever way
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and arguably incorrectly), however can be used to intensify the word how, as when one says "However did you find her?" Grammarians would suggest using two words for that usage: "How ever did you find her?"