Literary notes about Process (AI summary)
The term "process" in literature is employed to evoke a sense of unfolding transformation, gradual change, and intricate methodology across diverse subjects. In some works, it delineates physical and chemical transitions—such as the extraction of oils or decomposition ([1], [2], [3])—while in others it captures the unfolding of thought and emotion, as seen in discussions of brain activity or spontaneous associations ([4], [5], [6]). Its usage extends to describing systematic progress in society and nature, implying historical or cultural evolution ([7], [8], [9]). At times, it even serves as a metaphor for creative or philosophical metamorphosis, reflecting shifts in ideas or personal states ([10], [11], [12]).
- It is a process of extraction of the already cooked aromatic oils from the surrounding fibrous tissue, which has no drinkable value.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Beyond a certain limit no mechanical disruption of the body could hasten the process of decomposition.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - We shall make some carbonic acid, and, in order to hasten the process, we shall burn the carbon in oxygen gas.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Expressed in brain-terms, the law of interest will be: some one brain-process is always prepotent above its concomitants in arousing action elsewhere.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - Now all these added associations arise independently of the will , by the spontaneous process we know so well.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - I did not yet, however, understand my shame nor my agitation; the whole process went on in me unconsciously.
— from White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - This segmentation of the muscles was the momentous historical process with which vertebration, and the development of the vertebrate stem, began.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton - Social change was part of the whole cosmic process.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Progress as an Incident of the Cosmic Process 9.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - And so, by the chemical process of his malady, after he had created jealousy out of his love, he began again to generate tenderness, pity for Odette.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust - Truth grafts itself on previous truth, modifying it in the process, just as idiom grafts itself on previous idiom, and law on previous law.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - Whenever a piece of work becomes drudgery, the process of doing loses all value for the doer; he cares solely for what is to be had at the end of it.
— from How We Think by John Dewey
