Sentence examples for inchoate state from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, I spent much of "Storytelling" in some inchoate state of indignation, feeling as cartoonishly agape as the reaction shots of the audience for the premiere of "Springtime for Hitler," even at sections where the Manhattan cinéastes at the screening tittered knowingly.

A seminal reason, according to James, has two characteristics: it is (1) an inchoate state of the form to be, and (2) an active principle.

He takes his notion of potency, being a form in an inchoate state of actuality, as sufficient to avoid the problem of the simultaneous, fully actual presence of contraries in one and the same subject.

In the same way as a plant germinates from a seed, the vegetative and sensitive souls (the principle of life) exist in an inchoate state in the semen separated from the father, and they are educed from this matter by the action of the corporeal spirit (the power of the principle of life D43Q 37, 37; QLIIS 85, 239).

Augustine, for example, had suggested in his literal commentary on Genesis that the matter of the world could have been made all at once, whereas in his Confessions (Confessiones) he had suggested that there might be an indeterminate and inchoate initial state of matter.

The Middle East, powerful a half-millennium earlier, when Europe was a bundle of inchoate, backward states and unworthy of attention, did not.

The structure is now visible; what is inchoate is here stated; we are not so various or so mean; we have made oblongs and stood them upon squares.

On the other, aromatherapy — mono-themed smells, generally built in minimalist (if not inchoate) style and structure, meant simply to hypnotize like the single, pulsing tone of a Buddhist bowl, lulling into a state of non-thought.

An inchoate movement rather than a state, now controlling an area about the same size as Jordan, it will almost certainly never be defeated in the conventional military sense.

What happens in writing according to Ricoeur [ 8] is the "full manifestation of something that is in a virtual state, something nascent and inchoate, in living speech, namely the detachment of meaning from the event…writing is the full manifestation of discourse" (p.25).

The song builds to an image of inchoate chaos -- an "orphan ship of state, drifting, driverless" -- and the music invokes some of the torrential quality of the hurricane-battered Charleston of "Porgy and Bess," with its grieving widow's dirge of "My Man's Gone Now".