Sentence example with the word 'inquisitiveness'

inquisitiveness

Definition n. a state of active curiosity

Last update: June 24, 2015


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The father's literary tastes, general inquisitiveness, and powers of intrigue reappeared in Napoleon, who, however, derived from his mother Letizia (a descendant of the Ramolino and Pietra Santa families) the force of will, the power of forming a quick decision and of maintaining it against all odds, which made him so terrible an opponent both in war and in diplomacy.   [Please select]

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Jabe had asked no questions, inquisitiveness being contrary to the backwoodsman's code of etiquette; but his silence had been full of interrogation.   [Please select]

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This inquisitiveness is vastly stimulated by jealousy, suspicion, or any hint that we ourselves are directly or indirectly involved.   [Please select]

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He now hoped that his new apprentice, with the hand of a master-workman, would go clip, clip through madame's inquisitiveness.   [Please select]

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At last, as he walked to and fro, he began to exercise his natural inquisitiveness.   [Please select]

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Again her tone changed, the irrepressible undercurrent of native humour, native inquisitiveness and familiarity welling out unconsciously.   [Please select]

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Inquisitiveness has little place in the region of the city, and they gained the opposite footpath unnoticed by the casual passer-by.   [Please select]

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But, if you'll pardon my inquisitiveness, I'd like to ask why you are making this wild goose chase half around the world.'   [Please select]

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There was a loon on the Big Squattuk lake, where I camped one summer, which was full of inquisitiveness as a blue jay.   [Please select]

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Sophy possessed many amiable qualities, and did not want for sense, but every better feeling was lost in her extreme inquisitiveness.   [Please select]

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