The phrase "dwelt upon" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English. It means to think or speak at length about something. This phrase is often used to emphasize the extent to which someone is focused on a particular topic or idea. Example: The speaker dwelt upon the importance of education in shaping the future of our society. In this sentence, "dwelt upon" is used to show that the speaker spent a significant amount of time discussing the topic of education.
Darwin thus emphasised human unity and dwelt upon superficial differences, while acquiescing in the contemporary assumption that some races were superior to others.
This suggests a possible First Principle of Manners, one not dwelt upon in "Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?": discretion.
LIFE in New York has its own math: a series of formulas to help inhabitants make sense of an urban environment that might lead to madness if dwelt upon too long.
The detail needed at this point (but which will not be unduly dwelt upon) is that the effects of penetration and shielding are so pronounced that the 4s orbital is so substantially lowered in energy by its ability to penetrate close to the nucleus that it lies lower than the 3d orbitals, even though those orbitals belong to a shell of lower principal quantum number.
The second approach, dwelt upon in this work, also offers descriptions of systems that should become available with improvements to the manufacturing processes mentioned above.
Some of the feedback dwelt upon research methods and potential applicability of research findings.
Norris was heavily influenced by Malebranche, and goes so far as advising his own children that Malebranche's Search after Truth should "always be read, studied, dwelt and fed upon till it be digested, made your own, and converted as it were into the very Substance of your Souls" (Spiritual Counsel 501).
The article dwelt at length on the influence upon Mrs Huffington of a teacher turned Californian guru, called John-Roger, who is credited with the credo, 'use everything to your advantage.' News of Mrs Huffington's summer baby seeped into Liz Smith's gossip column in the tabloid New York Daily News when the pregnancy still had 8 1/2 months to run.
Eggleston's images are filled with uncanny moments, untold stories, the sense of a world observed, dwelt on and - just as significantly - dwelt in.
The increasingly polarised situation in South Africa after the 70s led to the semi-allegorical and strained July's People (1981), a revisiting of the master-servant relationship upon which so much of her work dwelt.
You cannot come upon the ruins of the old great monasteries of England, beside their waters, in some lovely valley, now remote, without feeling that here is one of the choice spots of the earth, where the spirit dwelt.
