Literary notes about Deliberate (AI summary)
The word "deliberate" in literature richly conveys both calculated intent and measured action. It is used to depict characters who act or speak with conscious care—a slow, thoughtful gesture or speech marked by weight and resolve, as seen in characters with measured strides and firm, paced utterances [1], [2], [3]. At the same time, it describes a reflective, pondered decision or plan, whether in the political reasoning of national governments [4] or in the moral scrutiny of personal choices [5], [6]. Even in mythic and epic narratives, gods and heroes engage in deliberate councils and deeds, highlighting an emphasis on reason and careful deliberation in determining fate [7], [8].
- Then he walked the floor with long, deliberate strides, his chin in his hand, and still the audience waited.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain - “ I han’t got nothing to tell, Mas’r ,” said Tom, with a slow, firm, deliberate utterance.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - As he approached the buildings, his steps become more deliberate, and his vigilant eye suffered no sign, whether friendly or hostile, to escape him.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper - "Our expectations of limitless progress cannot depend upon the deliberate action of national governments."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - But we do deliberate respecting such practical matters as are in our own power (which are what are left after all our exclusions).
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle - ‘The sisters asked for three days to deliberate; and felt, that night, as though the veil were indeed the fitting shroud for their dead joys.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - The gods deliberate in council concerning the Trojan war: they agree upon the continuation of it, and Jupiter sends down Minerva to break the truce.
— from The Iliad by Homer - Thus was deliberate perjury rewarded by sudden death!
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe
