Word Finder - sweetness

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The condition of being sweet or sugary.

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A pleasant disposition; kindness.

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Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.

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Term of address for one's sweetheart.

It seemed to show spontaneity and great sweetness of character.

There was an unguarded sweetness to her and her nervous chatter.

In his luminous subtlety and his broad undulating sweetness, his relationship with Virgil has long been manifest; he was himself aware of it.

Luminous dark eyes sparkled and flamed beneath his thick, black brows, and his large mouth and prominent nether lips were as capable of gentle sweetness as of power and set resolve.

From the peculiar use which is made of the produce of an irrigated meadow, and from the conditions to which it is subjected, it is necessary to include in our mixture of seeds some that produce an early crop, some that give an abundant growth, and some that impart sweetness and good flavour, while all the kinds sown must be capable of flourishing on irrigated soil.

Lorenzo recommended the young Leonardo, who went to Milan accordingly (at some uncertain date in or about 1483), taking as a gift from Lorenzo and a token of his own skill a silver lute of wondrous sweetness fashioned in the likeness of a horse's head.

And when he had blessed them, all began to sing; and the whole forest was filled with sweetness and joy because of their wonderful melodies.

His mother, Lady Magdalen Herbert, a woman of great good sense and sweetness of character, and a friend of John Donne, exercised great influence over her son.

The sweetness of the sweet sherries is partly due to an inherent property of the wine (apart from any sugar they may contain) and partly to natural or added sugar.

The gentle sweetness of thought, and the exquisite harmony of wording in his poems, more than justify the popular verdict.

She took it, grateful for the warmth and sweetness.

Through all his Stoical training Aurelius preserved the natural sweetness of his nature.

Her raw sweetness threatened his resolve to keep his distance.

His full-length of Lady Mary Coke is remarkable for the skill and delicacy with which the white satin drapery is managed; while in the portrait of his brown-eyed wife, the eldest daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Evelick, in the Scottish National Gallery, we have a sweetness and tenderness which shows the painter at his highest.

The public and the critics alike were entranced with the "sweetness" and the "purity" of the treatment.

His writings are marked by vigour and vitality of style, as well as by the highest qualities of the historian who recreates the past from the original sources; he had no sympathy with either legal or historical pedantry; and his death at Grand Canary on the, 9th of December 1906 deprived English law and letters of one of their most scholarly and most inspiring representatives, notable alike for sweetness of character, acuteness in criticism, and wisdom in counsel.

Of these, the Song of Songs, in exquisite poetry, extols the power and sweetness of pure and faithful human love.

You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

It is by this process that the degree of sweetness required to suit the particular class of wine being made is attained.

He explains that though absolute good is discerned by the intellect, the " sweetness and flavour " of it is apprehended, not by the intellect proper, but by what he calls a " boniform faculty "; and it is in this sweetness and flavour that the motive to virtuous conduct lies; ethics is the " art of living well and happily," and true happiness lies in " the pleasure which the soul derives from the sense of virtue."

You can also try adding a slice of lime to cut some of the sweetness.

Mrs. Thrale rallied him, soothed him, coaxed him, and if she sometimes provoked him by her flippancy, made ample amends by listening to his reproofs with angelic sweetness of temper.

He was famed in antiquity for the richness and splendour of his imagination and his style, although Quintilian censures his redundancy and Hermogenes remarks on the excessive sweetness that results from his abundant use of epithets.

Ambrosius Stub (1705-1758) was a lyrist of great sweetness, born before his due time, whose poems, not published till 1771, belong to a later age than their author.

It was under these conditions that Spenser gave his romantic epic to the world, a poem which derived its allegory from the middle ages, its decorative richness from the Italian Renaissance, its sweetness, purity, harmony and imaginative splendour from the most poetic nation of the modern world.

In his rebellion against the sweetness of Swedish convention he proved himself somewhat indifferent to beauty of form, returned to " early national " types of versification, and concentrated his attention on dismal and distressing conditions of life.

Vieira was a man of action, while the oratorian Manoel Bernardes lived as a recluse, hence his sermons and devotional works, especially Luz e Calor and the Nova Floresta, breathe a calm and sweetness alien to the other, while they are even richer treasures of pure Portuguese.

The So of the invalidish Antonio Nobre is intensely Portuguese in subjects, atmosphere and rhythmic sweetness, and had a deep influence.

It has a very full-bodied flavor and delicate sweetness as a medium roast.

Both the Carnation and the Pink, from the beauty and sweetness of their bloom and the cheerful effect of their foliage in winter, are well deserving of cultivation in all gardens where soil and climate suit these flowers.

Instead of striving for the traditional dry, crisp Pinot Gris of France or following the lead of other wine producers who reduced the dryness and played up the sweetness of the grapes, Tremani's Pinot Gris is dry.

The difference comes down to the fact that sweetness is a matter of taste.

Wines of the same type are stored in vats or soleras, and the contents of the soleras are kept as far as possible up to a particular style of colour, flavour and sweetness.

He also made many songs of the terrors of the coming judgment, of the horrors of hell and the sweetness of heaven; and of the mercies and the judgments of God."

The long vault has a certain keynote of its own, which, when firmly struck, excites harmonics, including tones of incredible depth and sweetness.

The warm liquid in her mouth didn't taste like blood; it was virtually flavorless, tainted by a sweetness hard to quantify.

The nose is rich with heavenly sweetness, golden syrup on Scotch pancakes, toffee and honey baklava.

A little balsamic vinegar can be added at this stage for some extra sweetness.

The meat thus prepared stayed moist and the sauce had a hint of sweetness that did not cloy.

During grilling, the marinade forms an herb crust that underscores the sweetness of the lamb.

Then the sweetness comes in with toffee, brandy snaps, crêpes and malt extract.

That heart now threatens, like the ripe fig he grows on the Tyne, to overwhelm his work with sweetness.

One minute she was sweetness and light, and the next she became a screaming harridan as she publicly berated Sir Laurence.

As it is, she has an oeuvre mostly doomed to waste its sweetness on the desert air of the video store.

Disregarding such perversion, we have to realize that the sweetness underlying Divinity is one only.

At a later date the aroma of the rambler roses disguising the cubicles, emitted sweetness into the air!

Keep in mind that non-nutritive sweeteners carry more intense sweetness than sugar.

Already in this play Ford exhibits the singular force of his pathos; the despondent misery of the aged Meleander, and the sweetness of the last scene, in which his daughter comes back to him, alike go to the heart.

As puppies, however, bulldogs are highly intelligent and unusually docile and affectionate, and if well trained retain throughout life an unusual sweetness of disposition, the universal friendliness of which makes them of little use as guardians.

But he was, in fact, of a great simplicity in temperament, affectionate, shy, still exquisitely sensitive in extreme old age to the influences of beauty, melancholy and sweetness.