serviceableness

Example Sentences

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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

He finds now that the form itself—over and above the practical serviceableness of the bowl—gives him pleasure.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge

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

But it is by no means yet certain that they have lost serviceableness as, at least, outworks of the stronghold.

From Miracles and Supernatural Religion by Whiton, James Morris

They have no connection with life, either by penetrating, by serviceableness, deep into that of the individual; or by spreading, by cheapness, over a wide surface of the life of the nations.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon