structive

If plants were sen - tient in the way of humans, would they prove as difficult and ob - structive to the efforts of their tenders?

Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

More than the other two, Euripides is concerned with the irrational, de - structive power of human passion as such.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES H. KAHN 1968

This view has been called “con - structive skepticism.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY G. VAN LEEUWEN 1968

This would be a “positive” form of criticism, constructive (and not merely de - structive) in its results, like the kind which had enabled

HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

Revolution became a de - structive force which threatened the security, the property, even the life of every individual.

REVOLUTION FELIX GILBERT 1968

And in the Clouds, Socrates is presented either as impiously searching out knowledge about the moon and clouds or else as teaching a de - structive and rather foolish sophistry.

SENSE OF THE COMIC EDWARD G. BALLARD 1968

Sanchez 'version of skepticism had some influ - ence on seventeenth-century thinkers, and his “con - structive” skepticism seems to have supplied the sub - structure of the via media between skepticism and dogmatism later offered by Pierre Gassendi.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RICHARD H. POPKIN 1968

Generally critical, as in Shadwell's The Lanca - shire Witches (1685), it could be more explicitly con - structive.

DEISM ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

The other premiss, of more recent vintage, was positive because it called for solutions to the causes of war and con - structive machinery to resolve conflicts.

INTERNATIONAL PEACE WARREN F. KUEHL 1968

Hence, instead of trying to find a general definition to cover the conflicting beliefs and widely divergent interests of all pragmatistic phil - osophies, the historian of ideas will find it more in - structive to trace various components of the various doctrines historically held by pragmatists.

PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968