All 13 Uses of
deliberate
in
Tender is the Night
- "This is not as it should be," Dick deliberated.
Chpt 1.15 *deliberated = thought about or discussed
- "I suppose so," said Dick with deliberated indifference.†
Chpt 2.7
- He could not decide whether she was deliberately building a barrier between them or whether this was intended to make an eventual surrender more significant.
Chpt 2.20 *deliberately = intentionally
- Reaching the sea wall she fell into a communicative mood and no one to communicate with; so she stopped and deliberated.†
Chpt 3.6deliberated = thought about or discussed
- Dick Diver looked at her with cold blue eyes; his kind, strong mouth said thoughtfully and deliberately: "You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming."†
Chpt 1.4
- McKisco's contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and their deliberate rudeness, all lifted from the English with no regard paid to factors that make English philistinism and rudeness purposeful, and applied in a land where a little knowledge and civility buy more than they do anywhere else—an attitude which reached its apogee in the "Harvard manner" of about 1900.†
Chpt 1.7
- She changed position in bed deliberately, the first sign of insomnia she had ever had, and tried to think with her mother's mind about the question.†
Chpt 1.9
- His eyes gleamed restlessly in the sun, but his motion was deliberate as he wiped his palm on the seam of his trousers.†
Chpt 1.11
- He withdrew after a short travesty of a French bow; Abe pulled himself to his feet with the deliberation of a locomotive.†
Chpt 1.24
- For him the boundaries of asceticism were differently marked—he could see it as a means to an end, even as a carrying on with a glory it would itself supply, but it was hard to think of deliberately cutting life down to the scale of an inherited suit.†
Chpt 2.4
- Nicole was up in her head now, cool as cool, trying to collate the sentimentalities of her childhood, as deliberate as a man getting drunk after battle.†
Chpt 2.9
- His scientific heredity might have bequeathed him a wider world but he seemed to have deliberately chosen the standpoint of an humbler class, a choice typified by his selection of a wife.†
Chpt 2.13
- Nicole stared at her deliberately and in her grandfather's voice said, slow and distinct: "It's absolutely out to put such ideas in the heads of other people's children.†
Chpt 3.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(deliberate as in: deliberate insult) to do something intentionally (do it on purpose)
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(2)
(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care
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(3)
(deliberate as in: a deliberate thinker) done with great care -- often slowly