Literary notes about allows (AI summary)
The word "allows" in literature functions as a versatile marker that bridges conditions with consequences, whether in ethical, legal, or physical contexts. In some texts, it connotes a moral or legal sanctioning of actions—as in [1], where a moral code “allows” the pursuit of personal happiness, or in [2] and [3], where the law specifies what is permitted. In other instances, "allows" indicates that a specific state or condition creates the possibility for subsequent events, such as enabling imaginative freedom [4], facilitating market activity [5], or even permitting technological functionalities [6], [7]. Beyond its literal use, the term frequently operates on a metaphorical level, underlining the interplay between constraint and liberation in both human affairs and natural phenomena, as seen in passages ranging from historical narratives [8], [9] to poetic meditations [10], [11].
- For the received moral code allows within limits the pursuit of our own happiness, and even seems to regard it as morally prescribed;
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick - There are certain things which the law allows a man to do, notwithstanding the fact that he foresees that harm to another will follow from them.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes - The sacred ordinance allows men to eat meat, but it forbids them to eat grains and fruits.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian - LXXXIV Italian prudence looks to the preservation of life, and this allows free play to the imagination.
— from On Love by Stendhal - This creates a market and allows people to do at least something.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert - The mobile phone has become for many people, including me, the personal communicator which allows you to be anywhere anytime and still be reachable.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert - Online communications allows Kenya to be in regular contact with people outside the walls of his Tokyo hospital.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - The duration of Maximin's reign has not been defined with much accuracy, except by Eutropius, who allows him three years and a few days, (l. ix.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - This is what Heav’n allows me to relate: Now part in peace; pursue thy better fate, And raise, by strength of arms, the Trojan state.’
— from The Aeneid by Virgil - ( c ) Shakespeare, lastly, in most of his tragedies allows to 'chance' or 'accident' an appreciable influence at some point in the action.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley - So distant they, and such the space between, As when two teams of mules divide the green, (To whom the hind like shares of land allows,)
— from The Iliad by Homer
