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In literature, "sequacious" is employed to evoke the idea of natural, coherent progression—whether that be the seamless flow of thoughts in rhetoric, the harmonious unfolding of musical notes, or even the orderly movement inherent in human behavior. For instance, a work described as sequacious might be praised for its fluency and inevitability, as when Mozart’s compositions are deemed more sequacious [1] or nature is said to follow the lyre's cadence [2, 3]. Conversely, authors sometimes critique a lack of this quality; Emerson’s writings are labeled non-sequacious for their perceived vagueness and the resultant difficulty in grasping their meaning [4], while a disjointed narrative is faulted for failing to weld its details into a sequacious and interrelated whole [5]. In other contexts, sequacious also extends to denote a tendency toward conformity and orderliness in human society [6, 7], illustrating the term’s flexible application across literary discourse.
  1. Mozart’s are more fluent, more sequacious, and more inevitable.
    — from Beethoven and His Forerunners by Daniel Gregory Mason
  2. "Orpheus could lead the savage race, And trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre."— Precisely, Glorious John !
    — from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, March 30th 1895 by Various
  3. [Pg 573] who wielded at will this mythic power, and made all the susceptibilities of nature "sequacious of the lyre."
    — from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various
  4. Emerson’s meaning, owing to his non-sequacious style, is often very difficult to apprehend.
    — from Obiter Dicta: Second Series by Augustine Birrell
  5. His details are always interesting, but he never succeeded in welding them into a sequacious and interrelated whole.
    — from Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning by Willard Huntington Wright
  6. The human race is gregarious and sequacious, rather than individual and adventurous.
    — from Horace and His Influence by Grant Showerman
  7. manageable , a. governable , tractable, docile , controllable, sequacious.
    — from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming

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