Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
F., fr. L. sensibilis, fr. sensus, sense
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Fr.,—L. sensus—sentīre, to feel.
In literature:
He was sensible, too, of a decay of his hearing, perhaps his other faculties might fall off and he not be sensible of it.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson
It also promotes a sickly sensibility.
"The Ladies' Vase" by An American Lady
He was sensible and well-read.
"Mark Hurdlestone" by Susanna Moodie
By what sign shall the public recognise the man of sensibility, always supposing that it is a man of sensibility the public wants?
"Art" by Clive Bell
I'm very sensible indeed, you know.
"None Other Gods" by Robert Hugh Benson
I merely want you to follow your extremely sensible and well-balanced head.
"The Title Market" by Emily Post
It is throughout thoroughly broad, refreshingly sensible and profoundly convincing.
"The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28" by Various
The dying part loses sensibility to touch and becomes cold and shrivelled.
"Manual of Surgery" by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
Is it possible for a person to exercise a feeling "as strong as death," and yet not be sensible of it?
"A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females" by Harvey Newcomb
Until then he had been only eloquent; he now showed that he possessed sensibility.
"History of the Girondists, Volume I" by Alphonse de Lamartine
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In poetry:
In SENSIBILITY'S lov'd praise
I tune my trembling reed,
And seek to deck her shrine with bays,
On which my heart must bleed!
"To Sensibility" by Helen Maria Williams
Yet tho' a fool I should appear,
A thousand faults revealing;
And thousand cares that wait on thee,
Sweet sacred sensibility,
O let me still be feeling.
"A Fragment" by Elizabeth Bath
He never the mental delights shall partake,
Which refin'd sensibility knows;
Those only can taste them who wait at her shrine,
Or can tell of the bliss she bestows.
"The Reflections Of A Serious Moment" by Elizabeth Bath
Sweet Sensibility! thy kindling ray,
Shall blend its light with Reason's milder beam;
And oft shall Pity's trembling glance convey
To Mis'ry's dark abode a cheering gleam.
"To The Author's Brother. On the choice of a Wife in the Year 1789" by Maria Logan
Have we a nation to save? In the first place
Saving ourselves is the sensible plan,--
Surely the spot where there's shooting's the worst place
Where I can stand, says the sweet little man.
"The Sweet Little Man" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ther's nobbut one friend 'at a chap can depend on,
If he's made up his mind to succeed in the strife;
A chap's but hissen 'at he can mak a friend on,
Unless he be blest wi' a sensible wife.
"Work Lads!" by John Hartley
In news:
" With the consumer design sensibility of the Misfit Shine – it's not hard to see this tribe of " misfits " – including ...
"It's very complicated to take a 400-plus-page rule book and shrink it down to something sensible," NCAA President Mark Emmert said in The Indianapolis Star last month.
In Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility," the characters never stopped talking.
Some sensible ideas for reviving America's entrepreneurial spirit.
Halloween tips for the sensibly paranoid.
Columbia's EEZ proposal continues to evolve sensibly .
Try sensibly using your senses.
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly ) Meeting.
Cut gas costs by maintaining vehicle, driving sensibly .
Beyond that, developing a clear idea of what a free and shared society should look like before it is practical is both sensible and wise.
Re- Imagine a Jazz Sensibility.
He left most of us in a trance but not before he had jolted my Indian sensibilities.
Physicists find that 'balloon' theory is most sensible of three proposed possibilities.
Finlandia, Hancock host forum on sensible campus growth.
Sensible people can make for spirited debate Joe Butkiewicz OPINION.
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In science:
When the continuum limit is to be ensured for each state, one requires in a sense that the classical equations are sensible at arbitrarily small scales, and corrections could only come from quantum uncertainties.
Quantum Riemannian Geometry and Black Holes
As we will see in the next section, the SP solution carries, however, sensible physical information only in a limited interval y ∈ [0, y∗ ].
Message passing for vertex covers
This defines a range y ∈ (0, y∗) where the SP equation provide a potentially sensible solution, with y∗ given by the marginality condition Σ(y∗ ) = 0.
Message passing for vertex covers
This is a generic problem for background-independent theories, but some systematic way of dealing with these different descriptions of physics needs to be found for us to sensibly interpret and analyze multiple vacua within a single formulation of string field theory.
String Field Theory
Consequently, in order to derive sensible information-theoretic relations regarding the information dynamics in a random-unitary evolution, one has to single out the random-unitary Kraus representation minimizing H (pi).
On the minimum number of unitaries needed to describe a random-unitary channel
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