Literary notes about UNIFORM (AI summary)
Authors employ the word "uniform" in diverse ways to evoke both concrete and abstract qualities. It often characterizes forms of dress that denote rank, duty, or style, as when a Frenchwoman's elegant outfit is described in refined detail [1] or when soldiers and officials are seen in attire that symbolizes discipline and authority [2, 3, 4, 5]. At the same time, "uniform" is used to express consistency and regularity in manner or appearance, whether depicting landscapes that adopt an unchanging hue [6] or highlighting a methodical, unvarying process in scientific inquiry [7, 8]. Beyond mere description, the word can suggest an underlying order or standard—imbuing both the tangible and the abstract with a sense of impartiality and steadiness that resonates throughout literary discourse [9, 10, 11].
- The uniform of the Frenchwoman was of course a fancy one, but very elegant.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - A field-marshal has his uniform; a bishop his silk apron; a counsellor his silk gown; a beadle his cocked hat.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - My uniform was white, the vest blue, a gold and silver shoulder-knot, and a sword-knot of the same material.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - I had to be present, much to my annoyance, for I possessed no diplomatic uniform.
— from A Diplomat in Japan by Ernest Mason Satow - “With this uniform,” said Enjolras, “you can mingle with the ranks and escape; here is enough for four.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - By the time he had walked three or four miles every shape in the landscape had assumed a uniform hue of blackness.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - In uniform curvilinear motion the total or resultant acceleration becomes normal to the curve.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Uniform work, periodical work, mean work, for the unit of time.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The dream itself is caused by this relaxation; and it is of too uniform a nature to be attributed to any other cause.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke - The development of forms was less logical and consequential, and less uniform in the different provinces, than in those western lands.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - All change is therefore possible only through a continuous action of the causality, which, in so far as it is uniform, we call a momentum.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
