Sentence examples for gross forms from inspiring English sources

"At Leipzig," observes one character, "all goods -- silk, coins, shares in mines -- lose their hard dull gross forms and liquefy, and give up their true nature, as ores in an alchemist's furnace sweat mercury".

Newton was an alchemist, and one character compares finance to alchemy: "all goods—silk, coins, shares in mines lose their hard dull gross forms and liquefy, and give up their true nature, as ores in an alchemist's furnace sweat mercury".

In that respect, our study echoes the findings of the post-WWII literature, in which associations were noted between gross forms of human rights violation and psychotic-like symptoms, for example, amongst survivors of concentration camps [ 16].

Since then, clinicians in the field of traumatic stress have argued that gross forms of human rights violations can lead to a fundamental loss of trust amongst survivors, resulting in a tendency towards suspicion and even paranoia, phenomena that are not encompassed by contemporary criteria for PTSD [ 17].

Or the filarial worm, which lodges itself in human lymph nodes and causes a particularly gross form of elephantiasis.

The diagram shows how the combination of core sizes and wavespeeds at the top of the outer core relative to V S at the base of the mantle affect the gross form of the seismic wave arrivals.

Boen wants people to view the tent-rental project as a comment on gentrification and not a gross form of poverty tourism.

This is thought to be one (gross) form of sperm selection.

Appendages II V are largely homonomous in gross form, possessing an anterior spur at the distal margin of each podomere and an armature of paired, ventral, mediodistal cuticular projections.

Murray made the following statement: "Summarising, it may be said that the gross form of those kinds of elements which have been mentioned (mainly parts of the limb skeleton) is developed by self-differentiation, that is, under the direction of factors intrinsic in each developing element.

In the early stages, when the development of gross form is proceeding, it is doubtless essential that extrinsic forces such as the growth pressure of other elements, etc. shall not deviate far from the normal conditions; it would be absurd to suggest that the intrinsic factors could produce a normal skeleton however unfavourable the extrinsic factors might be.