Literary notes about harmonious (AI summary)
Writers employ "harmonious" to evoke a sense of balanced order and aesthetic unity across a wide array of contexts. In poetic and descriptive language, it serves to highlight the pleasing flow of verse or the well-composed arrangement of colors and sounds, as when an author praises the elegant versification of a work ([1],[2],[3]). The term also captures the idea of inner balance and regulated states of mind, suggesting moral or psychological equilibrium ([4],[5]), while in philosophical and political discussions it underscores the perfect arrangement of ideas and forms ([6],[7]). Whether describing the seamless combination of elements in art and nature or the synchronized structure of abstract concepts, the word enriches literary expression by conveying an idealized sense of unity and order ([8],[9],[10]).
- The versification, as in all the compositions of this author, is easy and harmonious.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius - It was a sonorous, harmonious, flexible dialect whose vowels seemed to undergo a highly varied accentuation.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - It was a sonorous, harmonious, and flexible dialect, the vowels seeming to admit of very varied accentuation.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - It was evident that though Captain Lebyadkin had left off drinking he was far from being in a harmonious state of mind.
— from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Some persons are born with an inner constitution which is harmonious and well balanced from the outset.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Gentleness is to be united with manliness; beauty of form and activity of mind are to mingle in perfect and harmonious accord.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - And virtue, whether of body or soul, of things or persons, is not attained by accident, but is due to order and harmonious arrangement.
— from Gorgias by Plato - Look through the universe of matter and mind—all God's arrangements are perfect, harmonious, and complete!
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - The peace of the irrational soul is the harmonious repose of the appetites, and that of the rational soul the harmony of knowledge and action.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - Don’t I feel in my soul that I am part of this vast harmonious whole?
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
