Literary notes about Impediment (AI summary)
The term "impediment" in literature is deployed with notable flexibility, often symbolizing a barrier—whether physical, legal, or abstract—that obstructs progress or resolution. Authors invoke it to denote tangible hindrances, such as obstructive structures or physical limits ([1], [2]), as well as more intangible setbacks like legal restrictions, internal conflicts, or speech difficulties that complicate relationships and personal development ([3], [4], [5], [6]). In doing so, writers infuse their narratives with layered meanings, turning an "impediment" into a powerful metaphor for the various forces that challenge human endeavor ([7], [8]).
- The eyelids, transparent and bloodless, offered no complete impediment to vision.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - Wheresoever the strong tide met with an impediment, his gaze paused for an instant.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - He was an able constitutional lawyer and jurist; but the Constitution was not an impediment to him while the war lasted.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare - For you will find it to be an impediment to something else, but not truly to yourself.
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus - He was a Spaniard and seemed to have an impediment in speaking English.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore - Æsthetic vice is not favourable to æsthetic faculty: it is an impediment to the greatest æsthetic satisfactions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - So that what before was the impediment, is now the principal object of her working; and that which before was in her way, is now her readiest way.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
