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2 The hand was withdrawn, evidently with some distressing consciousness of its precipitancy .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 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.
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 There was a desperate precipitance in the reply of Forrester:-
2 She knew that there was no precipitance - no inconsequence - with Him .
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.
6 At least, therefore, I did not assume the character of needless precipitance merely to show off before the ladies.
7 I started- Iwasout of breath- Igasped ,atthis frightful precipitance - I was going to open with warmth against it.
8 There seem no more big things of that kind available-sothat I almost regret the precipitance of Commander Peary and Captain Amundsen.
9 The old man trusts wholly to slow contrivance and gradual progression; the youth expects to force his way by genius, vigour, and precipitance .
10 Till the Highlanders lost their ferocity, with their arms, they suffered from each other all that malignity could dictate, or precipitance could act.
11 They were such timid folk, these sheep; their fears passed easily into destructive precipitances .
12 There was a desperate precipitance in the reply of Forrester:-
13 She knew that there was no precipitance - no inconsequence - with Him .
14 Those who had so long danced and disputed round his immobility were left breathless by his precipitance .
15 Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul.
16 A little over - precipitance may ruin all.
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