The quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning.
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Examples for "suddenness"
Examples for "suddenness"
1
The conspirators were overwhelmed by the suddenness and fury of the attack.
2
We often underestimate the suddenness, even the randomness, of the change itself.
3
The suddenness of her appearance and something in her expression startled him.
4
The suddenness of the move gave them just the start they needed.
5
Speed, suddenness, the level of pain involved -these are all variables.
1
The query came with such grave abruptness that Heald hesitated in reply.
2
He smiled at the abruptness with which the President of the C.L.S.
3
The rector was almost taken aback by the abruptness of the request.
4
The general instantly regretted that he had spoken with such cruel abruptness.
5
The weather had changed with the usual abruptness of our capricious climate.
1
The British had attacked without considering what results might follow their precipitancy.
2
The hand was withdrawn, evidently with some distressing consciousness of its precipitancy.
3
He did not, however, rush up to her with Alick's tactless precipitancy.
4
But such is the perennial foolishness and precipitancy of the Jardines.
5
We were in danger of ruining all by a needless precipitancy.
1
There was a desperate precipitance in the reply of Forrester:-
2
She knew that there was no precipitance-noinconsequence-withHim.
3
Those who had so long danced and disputed round his immobility were left breathless by his precipitance.
4
Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul.
5
A little over-precipitance may ruin all.
1
Mrs. Landry rose with precipitousness, and the beautiful lady, very red, followed.
2
The knoll fell away in bushy precipitousness to the plain below.
3
Their great anxiety to trade for powder indicated their lack of that article and partly explained the precipitousness of their retreat.
4
There is a river there called the Kaoma, running into the lake, the sides of which are similar in precipitousness to the rocks before us.'
1
It was to this that Zen had referred in speaking of Transley's precipitateness.
2
It is owing to a natural crudity and precipitateness of the imagination, which assimilates nothing properly to itself.
3
There would be no excuse; she could never again plead that she had been the victim of Transley's precipitateness.
4
In the corridor that morning Vona had shown that too much precipitateness alarmed her; he might go too far in five more stanzas.
5
She had found him cursing, had kept him at bay, and he had already had evidence of the danger of precipitateness in her case.