Literary notes about elasticity (AI summary)
The term "elasticity" has been employed with remarkable versatility in literature, spanning technical descriptions to figurative expressions of spirit and character. In some texts, it is used in its strict scientific sense—referring to measures of physical flexibility and mechanical responsiveness, as seen in discussions of modulus, compression, and extension ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]). In contrast, many authors invoke elasticity metaphorically to evoke qualities such as resilience, adaptability, and a lightness of movement or mind. For instance, it enhances the nuanced portrayal of physical grace and inner vigor in human demeanor ([12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18]) while also symbolizing mental agility and moral flexibility ([19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30]). Even in discussions of abstract ideas or artistic expression, elasticity conveys an indeterminate quality that both challenges and enriches the concept under scrutiny ([31], [32], [33]).
- Modulus of elasticity.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The true laws of elasticity are unknown.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Elasticity of compression, extension, torsion.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Relations between the volume, density, and elasticity of a gas, and its temperature.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Importance of the elasticity of wheels.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Experimental determination of the co-efficients of elasticity.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Effect of the elasticity of the different parts of the apparatus.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Elasticity.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Elasticity.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Elasticity of bodies.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Limits of elasticity.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Her very walk was discouraging: it had that quiet elasticity that asks for no support.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot - I would in vain attempt to portray the majesty, the quiet ease, of her demeanor, or the incomprehensible lightness and elasticity of her footfall.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - She returned to town in a glow of rejuvenation, conscious of a clearer colour in her cheeks, a fresh elasticity in her muscles.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton - With it came the sense of elasticity and of light.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - Jealousy and vexation took To flight before her radiant look, Before such fond simplicity And mental elasticity.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin - His heart had not lost its elasticity.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "Why will they not kindle up and be glad sometimes?" thinks young elasticity.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot - A little disturbance gives the soul elasticity; what makes the race truly prosperous is not so much peace as liberty.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - How gratifying to every philanthropist must be these proofs of the elasticity of mind peculiar to a Medical Student!
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop - The greatness of the ideal has been put in its vagueness and in an elasticity which makes it wholly indeterminate and inconsistent.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Mere amassing of information apart from the direct interests of life makes mind wooden; elasticity disappears.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - TENSION and ELASTICITY are two forces, mutually complementary, which life brings into play.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - The troubles of a family, the business of making money, the demands of a profession destroy the elasticity of the mind.
— from The Republic by Plato - It lies near the pliable elasticity by which some persons take on the color of their surroundings while retaining their own bent.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - Such irrational elasticity and innocent improvidence would never put two and two together.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Their mind is wanting in elasticity; it has no movement of its own, and so they try to give it some,—by drink, for instance.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer - We even felt an unusual elasticity of frame and vivacity of mind.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - The troubles of a family, the business of making money, the demands of a profession destroy the elasticity of the mind.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - No wonder man has lost his elasticity.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - The flexibility and elasticity of rhythm of the finest Greek elegiacs he made his own.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce - But there was an elasticity in her firmness which removed it from obstinacy, as there was a naïveté in her cheapening which saved it from meanness.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - Instruments of such power and elasticity could not fail to be 'a most gracious assistance' to the first efforts of human intelligence.
— from Timaeus by Plato
