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The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Natural individuality appearing as national determinateness was still acknowledged, but was deprived of its abstract isolation.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

So that it would have no value whatsoever, it could not even be grasped by thought in its particular determinateness, if it were not presented as the natural form of that precise thought.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

It is precisely this universality, which belongs exclusively to it, together with the greatest determinateness, that gives music the high worth which it has as the panacea for all our woes.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

All of which fluctuations augured ill for the determinateness of that love, which, however immensely devoted to one cause, could yet hoist and sail under the flags of all nations.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman