Literary notes about evaluate (AI summary)
In literature, the term "evaluate" is employed as a versatile tool to denote the act of judgment or measurement across a range of contexts. It is used to convey the difficulty of assessing uncertain or fluid situations, as when circumstances are described as "up in the air" ([1]) or when cultural dynamics challenge comfortable appraisal ([2]). At the same time, it appears in more systematic settings—from measuring physical distances and costs ([3]) to assessing academic performance and professional results ([4], [5]). Authors also use it to indicate reflective processes, whether in the scrutiny of one's own motivations ([6], [7]) or in weighing the validity of historical or scientific data ([8], [9]). This breadth in usage underscores its role as a critical device in both narrative and analytical discourse.
- Almost all of the stuff is up in the air, which makes it hard to evaluate.
— from Martyr by Alan Edward Nourse - They are unable to evaluate the culture comfortably.
— from D-99: a science-fiction novel by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe - The illustrious American physicist estimates that he can thus evaluate to nearly five kilometres the path traversed by light in one second.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré - It is fully as important for the teacher to evaluate results of her teaching as to plan for it carefully.
— from The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics by Elsie Wilson Gwynne - This would render it possible to evaluate and to value effectiveness in teaching in making promotions.
— from College TeachingStudies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper - Lord was trying desperately to understand and evaluate his own motivation.
— from Impact by Irving E. Cox - Honesty compelled him to evaluate himself as young and inexperienced, not especially noted among his own kind for brilliantly incisive judgment.
— from The Short Life by Francis Donovan - “Illogical,” replied the Wonder, “not philosophy; a system of trial and error—to evaluate a complex variable function.”
— from The Hampdenshire Wonder by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford - Underwood sensed it, and his mind struggled to evaluate its implications.
— from The Alien by Raymond F. Jones
