All 9 Uses of
deliberate
in
The Lords of Discipline
- When the court deliberates, it will have to decide about the efficacy of the way our room worked.†
Chpt 4.41 *deliberates = thinks about or discusses
- At the front sally port, the Officer of the Guard, with deliberate clumsiness, performed an elaborate ceremony locking the front gate.†
Chpt 2.16
- He could jump higher, run faster, shoot better, pass more accurately ....it was as though God had deliberately set out to make a basketball player when he designed the body of Jimmy Mance.†
Chpt 3.30
- They did not speak but moved with extreme deliberation around the house, stabbing viciously and at random into the dark yielding thicknesses of the azalea hedge.†
Chpt 4.38
- Mark turned the prone and bleeding body of Cain Gilbreath overon the sand, went down with his knees on Gilbreath's arms, and began hitting his face with deliberate, brutal punches.†
Chpt 4.38
- No deliberation is necessary.†
Chpt 4.41
- The court will be cleared for the deliberation of the honor committee.†
Chpt 4.41
- He picked up the papers he had just signed expelling me from school and began tearing them up, deliberately and carefully.†
Chpt 4.47 *
- Instead, with great deliberation, I flung the glass of water in Tradd's face.†
Chpt 4.48
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