Though Mr. Varnedoe allows that the show had some "very particular problems," its stated ambitions did accurately reflect the general sensibilities of its organizer: a pursuit of specifics in generalities, a commitment to objects and the people who make them, a search for connections between high art and the stuff of everyday life.
I cannot pretend, even for the sake of drama, that the creation of that third list was a fraught affair; the general sensibilities and tastes of the panel were too much in accord for trouble, and there were no particularly confrontational or maniacally idiosyncratic temperaments to accommodate.
The initial critical impulse was to carefully consider the merit of each individual segment, plotting his effectiveness against a rubric that was equal parts Stewart, political incisiveness, and general comedic sensibilities, meaning: Is he funny?
We are seeing an all-time high in the need to compete economically, and a general low in sensibility and human relations.
In general, the low sensibility can be attributed to two causes.
Though it appeared a year after Edward Young's The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, it is apparently uninfluenced by that work but reflects the general tendency to exploit sensibility and pathos that coexisted peacefully with 18th-century Rationalism.
He traces the growth of romantic sensibility in general as a craving for continuity of emotional experience, and charts the embodiment of this in music: rather than building to a climax, the initial material becomes filled with a sense of mounting excitement.
What Humboldt is saying, then, is that the mental acts he has described would not have been possible without assistance from the general forms of our sensibility.
Although the broadside ballad represents the adaptation of the folk ballad to the urban scene and middle class sensibilities, the general style more closely resembles minstrelsy, only with a generous admixture of vulgarized traits borrowed from book poetry.
In Dombrowski, Cashman found another veteran general manager with his sensibilities.
