deshanksuman/cornercases_fews_wsd huggingface dataset:
Sentence:  The most important [WSD]quality[/WSD] of the meanings is that they should be as definable as possible . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
Sentence:  An elephant or a fox or a swan or a cocopalm or a banana possess in unusually high degree this [WSD]quality[/WSD] of obvious , common-sense , indubitable identity , as do an eye or tooth or nail . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
Sentence:  They isolate out easily , naturally , and unambiguously from the continuum of nature and existence ; and they should be given priority in the basic list as long as they continue to show these [WSD]qualities[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
Sentence:  But first I want to quote him on the relationship that he found between religion and [WSD]politics[/WSD] in this country and what happened to it . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power
Sentence:  He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1 , , evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and [WSD]political[/WSD] life of America . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  French [WSD]Egalitarianism[/WSD] had had only nominal influence in this country before the days of Popularism . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality
Sentence:  We of the liberal led world got all set for peace and [WSD]rehabilitation[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
Sentence:  Only Walter Lippman envisioned the [WSD]possibility[/WSD] of our having `` outlived most of what we used to regard as the program of our national purposes '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  capability of existing or happening or being true
Sentence:  Has not that way been [WSD]lit[/WSD] always by the lamp of liberalism up until the turning back under Eisenhower ? 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  make lighter or brighter
Sentence:  Strategy and tactics of the U. S. [WSD]military[/WSD] forces are now undergoing one of the greatest transitions in history . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a unit that is part of some military service
Sentence:  Our [WSD]military[/WSD] forces must be capable of contending successfully with any contingency which may be forced upon us , from limited emergencies to all-out nuclear general war . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a unit that is part of some military service
Sentence:  [WSD]Quality[/WSD] and combat readiness must take precedence over mere numbers . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a degree or grade of excellence or worth
Sentence:  I strongly recommend to the Congress the avoidance of mandatory floors on the size of the reserve components so that we may have the [WSD]flexibility[/WSD] to make adjustments in keeping with military necessity . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being adaptable or variable
Sentence:  I strongly recommend to the Congress the avoidance of mandatory floors on the size of the reserve components so that we may have the flexibility to make adjustments in keeping with [WSD]military[/WSD] necessity . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military
Sentence:  - About 30 % of the expenditures for the Department of Defense in 1961 are for [WSD]military[/WSD] personnel costs , including pay for active , reserve , and retired military personnel . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  soldiers collectively
Sentence:  - About 30 % of the expenditures for the Department of Defense in 1961 are for military personnel costs , including pay for active , reserve , and retired [WSD]military[/WSD] personnel . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  soldiers collectively
Sentence:  Traditionally , rates of pay for retired [WSD]military[/WSD] personnel have been proportionate to current rates of pay for active personnel . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
Sentence:  The 1958 [WSD]military[/WSD] pay act departed from this established formula by providing for a 6 % increase rather than a proportionate increase for everyone retired prior to its effective date of June 1 , 1958 . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
Sentence:  This section prevents the [WSD]military[/WSD] departments and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization from carrying out certain transactions involving real property unless they come into agreement with the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military
Sentence:  Basic long line communications in Alaska are now provided through Federal [WSD]facilities[/WSD] operated by the Army , Air Force , and Federal Aviation Agency . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Sentence:  The growing communications needs of this new State can best be met , as they have in other States , through the operation and development of such [WSD]facilities[/WSD] by private enterprise . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Sentence:  The decreases , which are largely in construction and in aircraft procurement , are offset in part by increases for research and development and for procurement of other [WSD]military[/WSD] equipment such as tanks , vehicles , guns , and electronic devices . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military
Sentence:  The Department of Defense appropriation acts for the past several years have contained a rider which limits competitive bidding by firms in other countries on certain [WSD]military[/WSD] supply items . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military
Sentence:  The task of providing a reasonable level of [WSD]military[/WSD] strength , without endangering other vital aspects of our security , is greatly complicated by the swift pace of scientific progress . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
Sentence:  The last few years have witnessed what have been perhaps the most rapid advances in [WSD]military[/WSD] technology in history . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military
Sentence:  Notable in this category are the Jupiter and Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles , which have been successfully developed , produced , and deployed , but the relative importance of which has diminished with the increasing [WSD]availability[/WSD] of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being at hand when needed
Sentence:  These examples underscore the importance of even more searching evaluations of new major development programs and even more penetrating and far ranging analyses of the [WSD]potentialities[/WSD] of future technology . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  an aptitude that may be developed
Sentence:  - The deterrent power of our Armed Forces comes from both their nuclear retaliatory [WSD]capability[/WSD] and their capability to conduct other essential operations in any form of war . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally
Sentence:  - The deterrent power of our Armed Forces comes from both their nuclear retaliatory capability and their [WSD]capability[/WSD] to conduct other essential operations in any form of war . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally
Sentence:  The first [WSD]capability[/WSD] is represented by a combination of manned bombers , carrier based aircraft , and intercontinental and intermediate range missiles . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally
Sentence:  The second [WSD]capability[/WSD] is represented by our deployed ground , naval , and air forces in essential forward areas , together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally
Sentence:  The Strategic Air Command is the principal element of our long range nuclear [WSD]capability[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally
Sentence:  By 1965 , several or all of these systems will have been fully tested and their [WSD]reliability[/WSD] established . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being dependable or reliable
Sentence:  Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint [WSD]little[/WSD] pine board tourist courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  He can even be a mild voiced [WSD]little[/WSD] town guy with big town ideas and level gray eyes and a heart even Houdini could n't figure out , how it is unlocked . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  The toilet had n't had a sincere scrubbing in years and there were things written on the walls of the [WSD]little[/WSD] boxed in place because you could n't keep the public out - entirely . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  The two [WSD]little[/WSD] bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out , by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching , whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  It was assumed that the sampling procedure was purely random with respect to the [WSD]personality[/WSD] variables under investigation . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
Sentence:  The parent was asked to describe the child 's typical behavior in certain standard situations in which there was an opportunity to observe tendencies toward perfectionism in demands upon self and others , irrational conformity to rules , orderliness , [WSD]punctuality[/WSD] , and need for certainty . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time
Sentence:  Children scoring high in compulsivity were those who gave evidence of tension or [WSD]emotionality[/WSD] in situations where there was lack of organization or conformity to standards and expectations , or who made exaggerated efforts to achieve these goals . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  emotional nature or quality
Sentence:  [WSD]Reliability[/WSD] and validation work with the Children 's Anxiety Scale by Castaneda , et al. demonstrated results closely similar to the findings with the adult scale . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being dependable or reliable
Sentence:  In theory , compulsive behavior is a way of diminishing anxiety , and one might expect a negative association except for the [WSD]possibility[/WSD] that for many children the obsessive-compulsive defenses are not sufficient to quell the amount of anxiety they suffer . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
Sentence:  The child with high anxiety may first direct his anxiety released energy toward achievement , but because his distress severely reduces the [WSD]abilities[/WSD] of discrimination and memorization of complex symbols , the child may fail in his initial attempts to master the problem . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
Sentence:  The late R. G. Collingwood , a philosopher whose work has proved helpful to many students of [WSD]literature[/WSD] , once wrote `` We are all , though many of us are snobbish enough to wish to deny it , in far closer sympathy with the art of the music-hall and picture-palace than with Chaucer and Cimabue , or even Shakespeare and Titian . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  By an effort of historical sympathy we can cast our minds back into the art of a remote past or an alien present , and enjoy the carvings of cavemen and Japanese colour prints ; but the [WSD]possibility[/WSD] of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries , and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  capability of existing or happening or being true
Sentence:  One might argue that the ultimate purpose of [WSD]literary[/WSD] scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public , of the newspaper critic , and of the creative artist himself . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  There results a study of [WSD]literature[/WSD] freed from the tyranny of the contemporary . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  The study of ideas in [WSD]literature[/WSD] is one of these . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  Most students of [WSD]literature[/WSD] , whether they call themselves scholars or critics , are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  Most students of literature , whether they call themselves scholars or critics , are ready to argue that it is possible to understand [WSD]literary[/WSD] works as well as to enjoy them . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  imaginative or creative writing
Sentence:  But the historian of [WSD]literature[/WSD] need not confine his attention to biography or to stylistic questions of form , `` texture '' , or technique . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  It is through such reflection that [WSD]literature[/WSD] approaches philosophy . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the humanistic study of a body of literature
Sentence:  In this essay , we are , along with most historians , interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas , that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of [WSD]literature[/WSD] where they recur continually . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself , including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; also secondary notions such as the [WSD]perfectibility[/WSD] of man , the depravity of man , and the dignity of man . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the capability of becoming perfect
Sentence:  One might , indeed , argue that the history of ideas , in so far as it includes the [WSD]literatures[/WSD] , must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  One might , indeed , argue that the history of ideas , in so far as it includes the literatures , must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of [WSD]literary[/WSD] achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  We need not , to be sure , expect to find such ideas in every piece of [WSD]literature[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  An idea , of the sort that we have in mind , although of necessity readily available to imagination , is more general in connotation than most poetic or [WSD]literary[/WSD] images , especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  Thus the student of [WSD]literature[/WSD] may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  In recent years , we have come increasingly to recognize that ideas have a history and that not the least important chapters of this history have to do with thematic or conceptual aspects of [WSD]literature[/WSD] and the arts , although these aspects should be studied in conjunction with the history of philosophy , of religion , and of the sciences . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  When these fields are surveyed together , important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence , a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions , primarily [WSD]literary[/WSD] , religious , and philosophical , but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even , to some extent , with science . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and [WSD]literature[/WSD] of that age one of his central and major concerns , by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  We may thus trace the notion of individual autonomy from its manifestation in religious practice and theological reflection through practical [WSD]politics[/WSD] and political theory into literature and the arts . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs
Sentence:  We may thus trace the notion of individual autonomy from its manifestation in religious practice and theological reflection through practical politics and [WSD]political[/WSD] theory into literature and the arts . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  We may thus trace the notion of individual autonomy from its manifestation in religious practice and theological reflection through practical politics and political theory into [WSD]literature[/WSD] and the arts . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  No one will deny that such broad developments and transitions are of great intrinsic interest and the study of ideas in [WSD]literature[/WSD] would be woefully incomplete without frequent reference to them . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  Still , we must remember that we cannot construct and justify generalizations of this sort unless we are ready to consider many special instances of influence moving between such areas as theology , philosophy , [WSD]political[/WSD] thought , and literature . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  Still , we must remember that we cannot construct and justify generalizations of this sort unless we are ready to consider many special instances of influence moving between such areas as theology , philosophy , political thought , and [WSD]literature[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring [WSD]literary[/WSD] influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  This Court agreed with the trial court `` that considerations of price , [WSD]quality[/WSD] and service were not overlooked by either du Pont or General Motors '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a degree or grade of excellence or worth
Sentence:  The purpose of this provision was thus explained in the Court 's opinion : `` Section 7 is designed to arrest in its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of competition from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole or any part of the stock of a competing corporation , but also to arrest in their incipiency restraints or monopolies in a relevant market which , as a reasonable [WSD]probability[/WSD] , appear at the time of suit likely to result from the acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of any other corporation . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
Sentence:  We repeat , that the test of a violation of 7 is whether , at the time of suit , there is a reasonable [WSD]probability[/WSD] that the acquisition is likely to result in the condemned restraints . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
Sentence:  By October the [WSD]little[/WSD] colony about Fort Douglas ( present-day Winnipeg ) numbered 100 . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a [WSD]military[/WSD] force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders ' empire . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a unit that is part of some military service
Sentence:  The mercenaries were [WSD]little[/WSD] interested in farming and added nothing to the output of the farm plots on which all work was still done with hoes as late as 1818 . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  not much
Sentence:  Observing their distressing condition , Colonel Snelling allowed these half starved immigrants to settle on the [WSD]military[/WSD] reservation . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
Sentence:  He knew that anything a brainy [WSD]little[/WSD] lady like her had to say would be plumb important , as well as pleasin ' to the ear , and he did n't want to miss a word of it . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  He slid in at her side , tucked a cigar into his mouth , and [WSD]politely[/WSD] proffered one to her . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in a polite manner
Sentence:  It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own [WSD]volition[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention
Sentence:  The primary [WSD]quality[/WSD] of that view seems , now , to have been its quietness , but that cannot at the time have impressed us . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
Sentence:  Other flowers we might gather as we pleased : myrtle and white violets from beneath the lilacs ; the lilacs themselves , that bloomed so prodigally but for the most part beyond our reach ; snowballs ; hollyhock blossoms that , turned upside down , make pink petticoated ladies ; and the [WSD]little[/WSD] , dark blue larkspur that scattered its seed everywhere . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
Sentence:  And the cast shell of a locust , straw colored and transparent , weighing nothing , fragile but entire , with eyes like bubbles and a gaping [WSD]slit[/WSD] down its back . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a long narrow opening
Sentence:  Thus shielded , we played many foolish games in comfortable unselfconsciousness ; even when the fences became a part of the game - when a vine embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty 's enchanted castle , or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire , even then we paid [WSD]little[/WSD] heed to those who went by on the path outside . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  In the heat of the summer , the garden [WSD]solitudes[/WSD] were ours alone ; our elders stayed in the dark house or sat fanning on the front porch . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a state of social isolation
Sentence:  He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social , cultural , or [WSD]literary[/WSD] traditions than he was within the traditions - or possibly the regulations - governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford , Mississippi , thirty-five years ago . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  It is to say rather , I believe , that he has brought to bear on the history , the traditions , and the lore of his region a critical , skeptical mind - the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in [WSD]literary[/WSD] form and technique . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern , I rather think , for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the [WSD]political[/WSD] and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  His own testimony is that he has read very [WSD]little[/WSD] in the history of the South , implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  not much
Sentence:  His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding , it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief [WSD]literary[/WSD] authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  His repeated experimentation with the techniques of fiction testifies to an independence of mind and an [WSD]originality[/WSD] of approach , but it also shows him touching at many points the stream of literary development back of him . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the ability to think and act independently
Sentence:  His repeated experimentation with the techniques of fiction testifies to an independence of mind and an originality of approach , but it also shows him touching at many points the stream of [WSD]literary[/WSD] development back of him . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  The planter aristocracy has appeared in [WSD]literature[/WSD] at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern [WSD]literature[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with [WSD]actuality[/WSD] , as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago , and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the state of actually existing objectively
Sentence:  The chief [WSD]literary[/WSD] antecedents of the Snopes clan appeared in the realistic , humorous writing which originated in the South and the Southwest in the three decades before the Civil War . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  There is evidence to suggest , in fact , that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them - or to make them as indelicate as they are - by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the [WSD]polite[/WSD] letters of the South . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  marked by refinement in taste and manners
Sentence:  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet , a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states , published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle , in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye gouging physical combat , and in the shockingly [WSD]unliterary[/WSD] speech of his characters , he set an example followed by many after him . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  marked by lack of affectation or pedantry
Sentence:  Others who wrote of low characters and low life included Thomas Bangs Thorpe , creator of the Big Bear of Arkansas and Tom Owen , the Bee-Hunter ; Johnson Jones Hooper , whose character Simon Suggs bears a close kinship to Flem Snopes in both his willingness to take cruel advantage of all and sundry and the sharpness with which he habitually carried out his will ; and George Washington Harris , whose Tennessee hillbilly character Sut Lovingood perpetrated more unmalicious mischief and more unintended pain than any other character in [WSD]literature[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  creative writing of recognized artistic value
Sentence:  Such a comparison reminds us that in employing low characters in his works Faulkner is recording [WSD]actuality[/WSD] in the South and moreover is following a long established literary precedent . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the state of actually existing objectively
Sentence:  Such a comparison reminds us that in employing low characters in his works Faulkner is recording actuality in the South and moreover is following a long established [WSD]literary[/WSD] precedent . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  Such characters , with their low existence and often low [WSD]morality[/WSD] , produce humorous effects in his novels and tales , as they did in the writing of Longstreet and Hooper and Harris , but it need not be added that he gives them far subtler and more intricate functions than they had in the earlier writers ; nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
Sentence:  One of the early humorists already mentioned , Thomas Bangs Thorpe , can be used to illustrate another point where Faulkner touches authentic Southern materials and also earlier [WSD]literary[/WSD] treatment of those materials . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to or characteristic of literature
Sentence:  But Thorpe saw also the hardships of pioneer existence , the cultural poverty of the frontier settlements , and the slack [WSD]morality[/WSD] which abounded in the new regions . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
Sentence:  He cannot leave the farm to take work in another [WSD]locality[/WSD] on short notice ; such a move may mean a loss of capital . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a surrounding or nearby region
Sentence:  Land within commuting distance of a growing city is usually high in price , higher if it has subdivision [WSD]possibilities[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a future prospect or potential
Sentence:  The children can do chores adapted to their age and [WSD]ability[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
Sentence:  Usually , the cost of food and shelter will be somewhat less on the farm and the cost of transportation and [WSD]utilities[/WSD] somewhat more . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
Sentence:  Where schools , fire and police protection , and similar municipal services are of equal [WSD]quality[/WSD] in city and country , real estate taxes are usually about the same . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a degree or grade of excellence or worth
Sentence:  Part-time farming can take comparatively [WSD]little[/WSD] land , labor , and equipment - or a great deal . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  As a rule , part-time farmers hire [WSD]little[/WSD] help . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  Check on the schools in the area , the [WSD]quality[/WSD] of teaching , and the provision for transportation to and from them . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a degree or grade of excellence or worth
Sentence:  Find out whether fire protection , sewage system , gas , water mains , and electrical lines are available in the [WSD]locality[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a surrounding or nearby region
Sentence:  If these [WSD]facilities[/WSD] are not at the door , getting them may cost more than you expect . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Sentence:  The [WSD]possibilities[/WSD] of selling the property later on for suburban subdivision . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  capability of existing or happening or being true
Sentence:  Take into account the difference in city and county taxes , insurance rates , [WSD]utility[/WSD] rates , and the cost of travel to work . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
Sentence:  In each of the last , the trial marked the beginning of a new course : in Moscow the liquidation of the Old Bolsheviks and the tightening of Stalin 's dictatorship ; in the United States the initiation of [WSD]militant[/WSD] anti Communism , with the repentant ex Communist in the vanguard . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
Sentence:  These trials were properly termed `` [WSD]political[/WSD] cases '' in that the trial itself was a political act producing political consequences . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  These trials were properly termed `` political cases '' in that the trial itself was a [WSD]political[/WSD] act producing political consequences . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  These trials were properly termed `` political cases '' in that the trial itself was a political act producing [WSD]political[/WSD] consequences . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  As such , it was beyond [WSD]politics[/WSD] and had no need of justification by a `` message '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power
Sentence:  The Final Solution proved that the Jew-baiter of any variety exposes himself as being implicated in the [WSD]criminality[/WSD] and madness of others . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the state of being a criminal
Sentence:  Do patriots everywhere know enough about how the persecution of the Jews in Germany and later in the occupied countries contributed to terrorizing the populations , [WSD]splitting[/WSD] apart individuals and groups , arousing the meanest and most dishonest impulses , pulverizing trust and personal dignity , and finally forcing people to follow their masters into the abyss by making them partners in unspeakable crimes ? 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
Sentence:  fearful of being mistaken for a Jew , he seeks protection in his Nazi uniform ; clinging to the enemy Jew idea , he is forced to overcome habits of [WSD]politeness[/WSD] and neighborliness ; once in power he begins to give vent to a criminal opportunism that causes him to alternate between megalomania and envy of those above him . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage
Sentence:  But though this characterization in no way diminished Eichmann 's guilt , the Prosecutor , more deeply involved in the tactics of a criminal case than a [WSD]political[/WSD] one , would have none of it . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  It is already difficult to recall how [WSD]little[/WSD] we knew before the Trial of what had been done to the Jews of Europe . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  not much
Sentence:  The [WSD]responsibility[/WSD] for taking the initiative in generating ideas is that of every officer in the Department who has a policy function , regardless of rank . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
Sentence:  I would hope that we could create the recognition in the Department and overseas that those who come across little things going wrong have the [WSD]responsibility[/WSD] for bringing these to the attention of those who can do something about them . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
Sentence:  If the Department of State is to take primary [WSD]responsibility[/WSD] for foreign policy in Washington , it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
Sentence:  It occurred to me that you might be interested in some thoughts which I expressed privately in recent years , in the hope of clearing up a certain confusion in the public mind about what foreign policy is all about and what it means , and of developing a certain compassion for those who are carrying such [WSD]responsibilities[/WSD] inside Government . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
Sentence:  The policy officer lives with his antennae alerted for the questions which fall within his range of [WSD]responsibility[/WSD] . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the proper sphere or extent of your activities
Sentence:  But he takes his bearings from the great guidelines of policy , well established precedents , the commitments of the United States under international charters and treaties , basic statutes , and well understood notions of the American people about how we are to conduct ourselves , in policy [WSD]literature[/WSD] such as country papers and National Security Council papers accumulated in the Department . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  published writings in a particular style on a particular subject
Sentence:  We do not want policy officers below the level of Presidential appointees to concern themselves too much with problems of domestic [WSD]politics[/WSD] in recommending foreign policy action . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power
Sentence:  In the first place our business is foreign policy , and it is the business of the Presidential leadership and his appointees in the Department to consider the domestic [WSD]political[/WSD] aspects of a problem . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to your views about social relationships involving authority or power
Sentence:  Mr. Truman emphasized this point by saying , `` You fellows in the Department of State do n't know much about domestic [WSD]politics[/WSD] '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power
Sentence:  The problem in the policy officer 's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors - [WSD]political[/WSD] , military , economic , financial , legal , legislative , procedural , administrative - to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  The problem in the policy officer 's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors - political , [WSD]military[/WSD] , economic , financial , legal , legislative , procedural , administrative - to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
Sentence:  The problem in the policy officer 's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors - political , military , economic , financial , legal , legislative , procedural , administrative - to be sorted out and handled within a [WSD]political[/WSD] system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the members of a social organization who are in power
Sentence:  There is a [WSD]possibility[/WSD] that battery powered radios with built-in radiation meters may become available . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  capability of existing or happening or being true
Sentence:  Provision for emergency toilet [WSD]facilities[/WSD] and disposal of human wastes will be an unfamiliar problem . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Sentence:  The time has come for citizens of all faiths to unite in an effort to remove this divisive and nettlesome issue from the [WSD]political[/WSD] and social life of our nation . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
Sentence:  `` All too frequently '' , points out James O' Gara , managing editor of Commonweal , `` Catholics run roughshod over Protestant [WSD]sensibilities[/WSD] in this matter , by failure to consider the reasoning behind the Protestant position and , particularly , by their jibes at the fact that Protestant opinion on birth control has changed in recent decades '' . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
Sentence:  This means that such factors as the health of the parents , particularly the mother , their [WSD]ability[/WSD] to provide their children with the necessities of life , the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing facilities may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
Sentence:  This means that such factors as the health of the parents , particularly the mother , their ability to provide their children with the necessities of life , the degree of population density of a country and the shortage of housing [WSD]facilities[/WSD] may legitimately be taken into consideration in determining the number of offspring . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
Sentence:  Here is a difference in theological belief where there seems [WSD]little[/WSD] chance of agreement . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  That tumultuous , painful and costly experience shows clearly that a law expressing a moral judgment cannot be enforced when it has [WSD]little[/WSD] correspondence with the general view of society . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some
Sentence:  In 1958 , the Conference endorsed birth control as the [WSD]responsibility[/WSD] laid by God on parents everywhere . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
Sentence:  What determines the [WSD]morality[/WSD] , they state , is not the means used , but the motive . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
Sentence:  The board approved and commended the use of birth-control devices as a part of Christian [WSD]responsibility[/WSD] in family planning . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
Sentence:  It called for opposition to laws and institutional practices restricting the information or [WSD]availability[/WSD] of contraceptives . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the quality of being at hand when needed
Sentence:  This brings us to the fact that the [WSD]realities[/WSD] we are dealing with lie not in the field of civil legislation , but in the realm of conscience and religion : They are moral judgments and matters of theological belief . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be
Sentence:  Only confusion , failure and anarchy result when the effort is made to impose upon the civil authority the impossible task of policing private homes to preclude the [WSD]possibility[/WSD] of sin . 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  a possible alternative