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This fills all his higher work with a generous appreciativeness, a justness of judgment, a tenderness of feeling, which elevate as well as charm the reader.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Even in Gray’s—‘Pindaric Gray’s’—treatment of classical themes, there is a sort of pervading ennui, or the forced appreciativeness of a gouty, disappointed man.

From Proserpine and Midas by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Nay it may happen that arrangements of lines which would flutter and flurry us on days of quiet appreciativeness, will become in every sense "sympathetic" on days when we ourselves feel fluttered and flurried.

From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Lee, Vernon

His appreciativeness was capable of exercising itself only on utilitarian matters, and recollection of Avice's good qualities alone had any effect on his mind; of her appearance none at all.

From The Well-Beloved by Hardy, Thomas

In the gentleman intellectual altruism and moral appreciativeness are large elements.

From Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College by Thwing, Charles Franklin