1 By-and-by, when you've got a name, you can afford to digress, and have philosophical and metaphysical people in your novels, said Amy, who took a strictly practical view of the subject.
2 Her father liked the metaphysical streak which had unconsciously got into it, so that was allowed to remain though she had her doubts about it.
3 Hunting was equally a devotion, full of metaphysical concepts veiled from Carol.
4 Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
5 Levin felt that it would be improper to enter upon a metaphysical discussion with the priest, and so he said in reply merely what was a direct answer to the question.
6 He would transfer a question to metaphysical heights, pass on to definitions of space, time, and thought, and, having deduced the refutation he needed, would again descend to the level of the original discussion.
7 A metaphysical school of the North, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the word Will.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER 8 This was a case of metaphysics, at least as difficult for Joe to deal with as for me.
9 But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it.
10 Katavasov was very fond of discussing metaphysics, having derived his notions from natural science writers who had never studied metaphysics, and in Moscow Levin had had many arguments with him of late.
11 At length Candide, having always had a taste for metaphysics, made Cacambo ask whether there was any religion in that country.
12 Candide, Martin, and Pangloss sometimes disputed about morals and metaphysics.
13 However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you.
14 But we've talked enough metaphysics.