suddenness

Example Sentences

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Suddenness rather than promptness has always marked his decisions.

From The Peace Negotiations A Personal Narrative by Lansing, Robert

Suddenness is their characteristic in embolism, while they are gradual and progressive in the case of thrombosis.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

But, as I was saying, the simple imaginative Mind may have its rewards in the repetition of its own silent Working coming continually on the Spirit with a fine Suddenness.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney

Suddenness in the emotions prompted him to distrust.

From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Dawson, Coningsby

Fig. 13.—Influence of Suddenness on the Efficiency of Stimulus The curves a, b, c, d, are responses to vibrations of the same amplitude, 30°.

From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir