Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that
intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.
As he grew up he had learned to know his uncle; Philip was downright and
intolerant, and he could not understand that a man might sincerely say things as a clergyman which he never acted up to as a man.
Besides, they're received everywhere, and I "--she laid special stress on the I--"have never been strict and
intolerant. It's simply that I haven't the time."
(she retained a schoolgirl's cruel contempt for "boys"), and enjoyed herself as best she could with such of the older or more sensible men as were not
intolerant of girls.
An angry flush overspread her features; and she said, in an
intolerant manner, grasping the arm-chair tightly with her hands:
The truth was, that the little Puritans, being of the most
intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother and child, and therefore scorned them in their hearts, and not unfrequently reviled them with their tongues.
Like most young persons of intellect and inexperience, she was hasty and
intolerant in nearly all her judgments, and rather given to being critical in a crude way.
His report of it was clumsy and farcical; but in a large, loose way it was like enough; at least he had caught the note of our self-satisfied,
intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality, and this was not altogether lost in his mocking horse-play.
Briefly, Robert Elsmere, a priest of the Anglican Church, marries a very religious woman; there is the perfection of "mutual love"; at length he has doubts about "historic Christianity"; he gives up his orders; carries his learning, his fine intellect, his goodness, nay, his saintliness, into a kind of Unitarianism; the wife becomes more
intolerant than ever; there is a long and faithful effort on both sides, eventually successful, on the part of these mentally [66] divided people, to hold together; ending with the hero's death, the genuine piety and resignation of which is the crowning touch in the author's able, learned, and thoroughly sincere apology for Robert Elsmere's position.
He was a man of fixed principles, strong prejudices, and regular habits,
intolerant of dissent in any shape, acting under a firm conviction that his opinions were always right, and whoever differed from them must be either most deplorably ignorant, or wilfully blind.
Kept aloof from all practical life as Philip had been, and by nature half feminine in sensitiveness, he had some of the woman's
intolerant repulsion toward worldliness and the deliberate pursuit of sensual enjoyment; and this one strong natural tie in his life,--his relation as a son,--was like an aching limb to him.
It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly
intolerant eye.