serviceableness

Example Sentences

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There are many tendencies toward extreme individualism which need balancing by clearer ideals of social serviceableness.

From The Family and it's Members by Spencer, Anna Garlin

The work that is ready to her hand, the ordinary round of family tasks and serviceableness, repels her.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various

As a writer he is chiefly noted for the even dignity and general serviceableness of his style.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

The formulation of definitions and laws in exclusively mechanical terms is not due to the exhaustive or even preëminent reality of these properties, but to their peculiar serviceableness in a verifiable description of events.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

One remembers that he could still rejoice in the trees, not because they were images of loneliness and meditation, but because of their serviceableness.

From The Cutting of an Agate by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)