Sentence examples for provisional character from inspiring English sources

Never decorative, it embodies a chair's provisional character.

Summing up the influence of the Scots, Buchan says, "In demanding that experiment not inherited truth define the business of living, the Edinburgh philosophers stamped the West with its modern scientific and provisional character.

By proposing another version of Brazilian history (though not a final one), Mangueira echoed two of the most important elements of the historian's craft: the critique of competing interpretations of the past and its openly provisional character.

If so, its passage sometimes lent his poems the provisional character of a perpetual notebook – no less interesting or distinctive for that, but part of what Derek Mahon called life "in infinite preparation", running on into the final, prolific phase of his work, when rival vocations, the short story and the novel, also made their claims.

The argument is, that under section 15 6), the Commission may prescribe divisions only when, upon full hearing, it is of opinion that those existing are, or will be, unjust, unreasonable or inequitable; that in such event it shall prescribe divisions which are just, reasonable and equitable; and that the provisional character of the order demonstrates that the hearing has not been a full one.

Both articles are of a provisional character, but the first one already includes the terms "thought style" and "incommensurability".

At its zenith the British empire was almost impossibly grand in conception and yet was frequently so "improvised and provisional in character" as to appear almost ramshackle.In this section Pondering the past Play it again An atheist's guide The latest chapter Molten magic ReprintsIn fact, argues Mr Darwin, there was, at least for its first 100 years or so, no single vision of empire, but several.

Simon sent him a draft of a pilot that had a provisional set of characters and was about 80 percent of a whole but missing scenes.

Schwartzman's character is tentative, provisional, making himself up as he goes along; he's like a piece of writing as it's being written — by definition, a work in progress.

Schwartzman's character is tentative, provisional, making himself up as he goes along; he's like a piece of writing as it's being written by definition, a work in progress.

As David and his cohort recede from view, Johnny becomes the novel's protagonist, though he has the provisional feel of a secondary character nudged from the wings into the spotlight.