serviceableness

Example Sentences

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There are many tendencies toward extreme individualism which need balancing by clearer ideals of social serviceableness.

From The Family and it's Members by Spencer, Anna Garlin

That the useful is not always perceived as beautiful is due to the fact that the design which has shaped the work must be regarded apart from the material serviceableness of the object itself.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge

It is shabby to offer Him the mere hull of the boat when the storms of passion have carried its serviceableness away.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

The hat should be plain, the hair compactly done, and the whole effect of the costume trim serviceableness and grace, rather than prettiness.

From The Etiquette of To-day by Ordway, Edith B.

One remembers that he could still rejoice in the trees, not because they were images of loneliness and meditation, but because of their serviceableness.

From The Cutting of an Agate by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)