appreciativeness
Example Sentences
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His appreciativeness was capable of exercising itself only on utilitarian matters, and recollection of Avice's good qualities alone had any effect on his mind; of her appearance none at all.
From The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
He had suffered from the modern malady of unlimited appreciativeness as much as any living man of his own age.
From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy
Kendal bad introduced him to her, in a brief encounter at the Salon, and she remembered the appreciativeness of the glance that accompanied the stout middle-aged English gentleman's bow.
From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan
Nay it may happen that arrangements of lines which would flutter and flurry us on days of quiet appreciativeness, will become in every sense "sympathetic" on days when we ourselves feel fluttered and flurried.
From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Vernon Lee
The young man gazed with a free smile, the expression of critical appreciativeness.
From A Life's Morning by George Gissing
