accidentals

The "accidentals", the nonthinkers, the delusional are not necessarily lost causes, you know?

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

The "accidentals", the nonthinkers, the delusional are not necessarily lost causes, you know?

Hateful Ignorance Versus Hate As A Sword 2009

Most of them involve "accidentals," matters of punctuation or spelling.

The Big Word in 'Ulysses' Ellmann, Richard 1984

It would be impossible to fill the wall-cases, if properly proportioned, with these few, even given all the favourable conditions of procuring the "accidentals" and varieties, under ten years.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

This use of accent for characterization is also quite distinct from its use with "accidentals," or tones foreign to the prevailing tonality.

Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

In the following examples, the tones marked [accent symbol] are "accidentals," and for that reason should receive a faint stress.

Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

Hither resort those "accidentals" of fancy that make the stage, the drawing-room, and all the schools of artistic endeavor interesting or peculiar.

The Titan Theodore Dreiser 1908

These "accidentals" as the painters say were quite as we wished them to be.

A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

An uncultivated listener, hearing an oratorio of one of the great masters, would detect discords again and again in the strains; and as a matter of fact, what are called "accidentals" in music are discords, but discords inserted to heighten the harmony.

The Ministry of the Spirit 1865

My understanding is that the 'accidentals' of bread and wine remain (a mystery for sure) but not the reality of bread and wine.

Historical Christian 2008