ratiocinations in a sentence
Examples
- Lewis'impersonation came complete with a satyr's cosmic boredom and an ability to read people that functioned as a dry Vegas version of Sherlock Holmesian ratiocination.
- Is music's coy retreat from the powers of ratiocination really to be punished by pelting it with terms like phonology, semiotics, semantics, syntax, pragmatics and metaphor?
- Dupin reappeared in " The Purloined Letter ", which Poe called " perhaps the best of my tales of ratiocination " in a letter to James Russell Lowell in July 1844.
- The story, set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, is often compared with Poe's " tales of ratiocination " as an early form of detective fiction.
- Other recent exhibits include " Poe in Comics ", " Poe Face to Face : Early Portraits and Daguerreotypes of Edgar Allan Poe " and " Ratiocination : Poe the Detective ".
- Almost anything we look at in the US constitution arose because of a political compromise, not from ratiocination of the optimal solution, or for any mathematical or game-theoretic reasons.
- In December 1829, Poe released " Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems " in Baltimore before delving into ratiocination " . though it was not a financial success.
- :Don't think that Sherlock Holmes was intended to represent professional police crime-solving techniques, but rather an idiosyncratic individual with sharp powers of observation and " ratiocination ".
- There is Poe the working writer ( less generously referred to as hack ) and frequent magazine contributor, and there is Poe the inventor of the detective story and the science-fiction tale and tales of ratiocination.
- :* " No man ever gained spiritual freedom, power and happiness by a process of logic, by " a priori " ratiocination, by metaphysics, by reading books or by listening to lectures.