"Buoyancy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what we call capacity or genius. When it resides in an inanimate thing it may produce a physical effect: it comes up in the steam of the American sacred sweat lodge, and gives health to the body (and thus buoyancy to the mind);[432] here it is identical with the soothing and stimulating power of the steam. It is, in a word, a term for the force residing in any object.[433] Like sickness and other evils, blessings, and curses, it is ...
— Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV • Crawford Howell Toy
... itself. Suppose, now, the vessel to be listed over to various angles of heel—say 20 deg., 40 deg., 60 deg., and 80 deg.—the water lines will then be A C, D E, F K, and H J respectively, and the centers of buoyancy, which must be found by calculation, will be B1, B2, B3, and B4. If lines are drawn from these points at right angles to the water levels at the respective heels, the righting power of the vessel in each position is found by ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various
... could here convey the tone of buoyancy with which he said these words. There was a largeness and confidence in them that carried me away. He told me that he was now "working with the experts"—those were his words—and that he would soon begin building a house that would astonish ...
— Adventures In Friendship • David Grayson
... spokesman of the Fifth Ward. When I stood up to speak I realized that I had to "play up" to the spirit of generosity which is always latent in a crowd such as I was addressing. I believe I won, although my candidate, unfortunately, lost. My Irish buoyancy and good nature brought me over the line. I felt that the audience in the gallery and the delegates on the floor were with me, but unfortunately for my cause, the boss, who was always the dominating influence of the Convention, was against ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty
... very pleasantly, "I am none the less glad to find that you retain your old independence of spirit, as well as your buoyancy." ...
— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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