English vocabulary examples in context: aberration
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 1.
People in general thought him a lunatic, and blamed his Reform Club friends for having accepted a wager which betrayed the mental aberration of its proposer.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 2.
All this was prepared beforehand on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 3.
When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 4.
Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- 'Long live the Republic!'
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 5.
The story had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the Moniteur, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of mental aberration and a suicide.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 6.
And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 7.
Since even Varvara Petrovna was almost at the beck and call of this rabble, right up to the time of the catastrophe with her son, our other local Minervas may well be pardoned for their temporary aberration.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 8.
To sulk at his country's happiness, alack, what aberration!
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 9.
If you really are so low, as to think I am absent when I am present, it's a frightful case of aberration; I shall ask father to bring out Dr.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 10.
Those who had known her so well in Washington might find it impossible to believe that the fascinating woman could have had murder in her heart, and would readily give ear to the current sentimentality about the temporary aberration of mind under the stress of personal calamity.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 11.
We will make a clean sweep of all these psychological points, of a suspicion against you, so that your crime will appear to have been something like an aberration, for in truth it was an aberration.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 12.
Suddenly recalled to ourselves, we start from our mental aberration, and a clearer insight into the immediate purposes and machinery of our lives, is afforded us.
Vocabulary in context: aberration -- Example 13.
A clear solution to that curious scene was never given, for George could not give the clue to his train of mental aberration.
