Word: patterning
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Wrenched out of its original psychological pattern and set into a dainty mould that would presumably appeal to local tastes, the present version simply does not make sense. The poor girl is burdened with all sorts of Grundyisms. She is made just nice enough to be impossible...
Role Cut to Mr. Craven's Pattern...
...great contemporaries. Being a shrewd observer Mr. Rood answers his last question as every thoughtful undergraduate could answer it: the college would first force these men "to wear hats and caps of the same style, suits and overcoats of the same cut, collars, ties, hosiery, shoes of the same pattern," then ostracize them until they were "out" for a team, a glee club, a publication, even brand them as "queer" until they thought like and acted like everybody else, and finally teach them in remaining leisure to dine elegantly, dance gracefully, and bridge skillfully...
...shadow, watched by the microscope and the lens of a special camera. The pulse moves in and out, currents move over the body and shake the threads, by whose photographed waverings the heart is studied. If the beat is regular and stout, the quartz will fluctuate in an even pattern on the photographic plate; if the heart limps the pattern, too, will vary; and its varytions may be accurately measured...
...latter are exceedingly dexterous fellows. Armed only with gaudy paper-tailed darts, they pose before the bovine onrush, or themselves rush at the bull, jabbing the darts* into his carcass in pairs so as to pick out an approved pattern on and about the withers...