Sentence examples for involuntary character from inspiring English sources

Through a sustained reflection on Adam and Eve, Augustine came to understand that what was crucial in his experience was not the budding of sexual maturity but, rather, its unquiet, involuntary character.

In what may be the earliest very explicit discussion of this issue, Locke (1689, IV, 11) points to two features of our experience in this connection: (i) its involuntary character, i.e., the fact that it simply occurs with no choice or control on the part of the person having the experience; (ii) the systematic order or coherence of that experience.

The unemployed have been distinguished from (non- employment categories because unon- employmentoften found to negatively affecategoriesing due to its involuntary character.

We also recorded how long patients had been under psychiatric treatment (in months), the number of different psychiatrists treating them during that time, and the number of psychiatric admissions specifying their voluntary or involuntary character.

Ms. Catterson imbued her tasks with a melancholy that seemed involuntary, part of her character, and the ballet-trained Ms. Coates, in her balances and leaps, exhibited no average-person effort.

Notions of identity and selfhood - what Richard Sennett, in The Fall of Public Man, calls the "involuntary disclosure of character in public" and "isolation in the midst of visibility to others" - are hilariously, deliberately and accidentally investigated and discarded in frame after abundant frame.

Under the pressure of constant, violent, involuntary psychic contraction (terror, self-loathing) and expansion (rage, grandiosity, mania), character itself shrivels.

The problem with thinking that certain sorts of feelings, such as feelings of pleasure in another person's pain, are sufficient for evil character is that these sorts of feelings might be involuntary and not endorsed by the person who has them.

However, level-scaling, combined with the leveling system has received criticism, as it has the potential to unbalance the game; characters with major skills that increase on an involuntary basis, such as athletics or armor, can find they level too quickly, making the enemies proportionately harder than intended.

Ralph Fiennes is the title character, a man freshly released from a mental institution and plagued by involuntary memories of his traumatic childhood.

And the characters don't so much vent their intense emotions as betray them through involuntary eruptions that they quickly stifle.