Literary notes about Consideration (AI summary)
The term "consideration" displays a remarkable versatility in literature, encompassing both practical and contemplative meanings. It is often used to denote a careful weighing or thoughtful reflection on complex issues, as seen when characters deliberate moral or judicial dilemmas [1][2][3]. In legal and contractual contexts, the word conveys the idea of a stipulated exchange or essential element to validate an agreement, a sense evident in discussions of quid pro quo or requisite obligations [4][5][6]. At times, it captures subtler emotional nuances, highlighting thoughtful regard or reflection in personal relationships and artistic judgment [7][8][9]. This range of usage illustrates how consideration is not confined to abstract or legal discourse but penetrates diverse layers of human experience in literary works.
- it was a question requiring serious consideration—Who should execute a sentence?
— from Laws by Plato - For the first time in my life I found myself in need of thoughtful consideration before I could make up my mind.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - If I had had ample time for consideration, I believe I should still have gone.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Brokers Across the face is the following: For and in consideration of one dollar to __________________
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Debt throws most light upon the doctrine of consideration.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Wherever consideration was mentioned, it was always as quid pro quo, as what the contractor was to have for his contract.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - She was completely restored and delighted by his consideration, but she made him promise not to come around.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - “ Your attentiveness and consideration makes me more sensible of my own neglect.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - —Incredible that God should unite Himself to us.—This consideration is drawn only from the sight of our vileness.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
