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Alfred Whitehead once suggested that art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our esthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

We should try to avoid imposing our own beliefs on others.

I'm afraid I would be imposing on my grandparents if I didn't pay rent while I was staying with them.

Discussion question: State the case for and against imposing a trade embargo against a nation's government in order to bring about political change.

The effects of these imperfections are manifested in different ways, according to the temper and disposition of the several minds of men, some they incline to gross ignorance and stupidity, and others to a presumptuous imposing on other mens Opinions, and a confident dogmatizing on matters, whereof there it no assurance to be given.

Still larger and more imposing is the magnificent white species, Agaricus maximus, Fr.

It is a large and imposing plant found in sandy soil and especially among the pines.

' It was agreed that Eleanor had better make as royal and imposing an appearance as possible, so instead of the plain camlet riding kirtles that she and Lady Lindsay had worn, she donned a heraldic sort of garment, a tissue of white and gold thread, with the red lion ramping on back and breast, and the double tressure edging all the hems, part of the outfit furnished at her great-uncle's expense in London, but too gaudy for her taste, and she added to her already considerable height by the tall, veiled headgear that had been despised as unfashionable.

The eight years, which had seemed to bring so many changes to the growing boy, had not changed the place at all; it appeared a little dwarfed, perhaps, grown smaller and less imposing; the gaunt old buildings, which had towered to the sky in the imagination of the small child, had dwindled, in the eyes of the youth, to mere ordinary dwellings.

-We had enjoyed an exciting and adventurous day, and I myself was not sorry to have something still left to do, while we had the satisfaction of being the first to set foot on this, the most imposing and mightiest giant of the Alps-the ‘inaccessible’ Mont Cervin.

The alternations of sun and frost have made wondrous havoc on the southern face of the Matterhorn; but they have left brown-red masses of the most imposing magnitude behind-pillars, and towers, and splintered obelisks, grand in their hoariness-savage, but still softened by the colouring of age.

Viewed from the Bel Alp the many-peaked Dom is a most imposing mountain; it has there no competitor.

To see such a mighty host of birds rise en masse from the water is a most imposing, nay, even a thrilling sight.

When I got to the top and looked over, the scene became grand, imposing, indescribable.

The flight of this species is very imposing, witnessed to perfection as the bird passes to or from its feeding or fishing grounds, and its nightly retreat in some distant wood; or perhaps, better still, when mobbed by some Gull, or mobbing one in return.

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