sense of proportion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandproportion
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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proportion
noun
uk/prəˈpɔː.ʃən/us/prəˈpɔːr.ʃən/
the number or amount of a group or part of something when compared to ...
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(Definition ofsenseandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Asenseofproportionand judgment in their combination and deployment is crucial in the critic or scholar.
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Asenseofproportionconcerning the beneficial and detrimental potential of individual biological control programmes needs to be transmitted to the public at every opportunity.
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Each time the anecdote was sewn crudely into a successive text, the episode was overblown a little more, and it quickly pulled the event beyond allsenseofproportion.
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He reminds us that repose or 'vital stability' is the appearance of harmonious unity in a building and it is achieved through an intuitivesenseofproportion.
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But even the briefest of descriptions of its derivation would have to take up more space than would be acceptable given any reasonablesenseofproportion.
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We have got to keep asenseofproportionin these matters.
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It is important to keep asenseofproportion.
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But really when we come to consider retrenchment we must, in the first place, have somesenseofproportion.
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Do let us have somesenseofproportionin these matters.
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We must cultivate and observe asenseofproportionin these terrible matters.
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So we must exercise asenseofproportionin the future.
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I think we are in danger of losing oursenseofproportionin this matter.
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I believe that it has applied asenseofproportionto the relative degree of weight which should be attached to different factors.
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It is, of course, necessary to preserve asenseofproportionin this matter.
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So asenseofproportionis necessary when discussing the subject of our debate to-day.
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It brings home what can come from one of these many accidents and helps us to keep asenseofproportion.
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I think we must keep asenseofproportion.
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Let us have somesenseofproportionand a reasonable amount of freedom in this country.
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That seems to me to betray a wholly wrong standard of values and a lack ofsenseofproportion.
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It is essential to retain asenseofproportion.
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