Literary notes about Concerted (AI summary)
The term “concerted” appears in literature with a diverse range of meanings, generally signifying actions or plans that are coordinated or deliberately arranged. In scientific and sociological texts, for instance, it is used to illustrate how natural or instinctive togetherness can lead to synchronized behavior among animals or groups, as seen when describing herd instinct ([1], [2], [3], [4]). In contrast, literary and historical works employ the word to denote carefully planned strategies or conspiracies – whether in political maneuvers ([5], [6], [7]), military plots ([8], [9], [10]), or even in orchestrating musical arrangements ([11], [12], [13]). Such usage underscores both the deliberate nature of coordination, as in the planning of political alliances or actions by groups ([14], [15], [16], [17]), and the aesthetic convergence seen in musical performance or orchestrated art, demonstrating the term’s flexible but consistently precise connotation across genres ([18], [19], [20]).
- It is very difficult to understand how there can be concerted action in the herd or the flock unless it is on an instinctive basis.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - In "like response to like stimulus," we may discern the beginning of "concerted action" and this, it is urged, is the fundamental social fact.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Action in a stampede, for example, is collective but it is not concerted.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - This derision may be spontaneous, or reflective and concerted.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The plan which had been concerted, he said, would astonish the French, and perhaps the English.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey - Thus a plot is concerted for the king on all sides.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy - Our plan must be concerted for a surprize, and not for a storm.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding - PRACTICE, intrigue, concerted plot.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson - The details now beat against his trembling mind with concerted attack.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood - Capt. Clark set out early this morning with five men to examine the country and survey the river and portage as had been concerted last evening.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - After this we were able to get good concerted music for the opera.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner - There was then sung a concerted piece in two parts, extemporized by the highly-gifted Commandant, who figured it on the blackboard.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The problem is to arrange these sounds, naturally so tuneful, into concerted music.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - But we soon found, by the concerted action of Republicans all over the country, the Conventions were broken up at every point.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - Their decisions they concerted at home, and pronounced in the forum.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy - For, as I have before intimated, a Plan of it is laid and concerted (as all other Matters of Importance are) in a Club.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele - For, as I have before intimated, a Plan of it is laid and concerted (as all other Matters of Importance are) in a Club.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The fame of her beauty was immediately extended over this immense metropolis, and different schemes were concerted for bringing her into life.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. Smollett - “Because that which she does is part of a plan concerted between you--of an infernal plan.”
— from The three musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - After this we concerted together as to what we should say to the doctor, who was sure to question us.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous