Literary notes about different (AI summary)
The word “different” is wielded by writers to signal contrast and transformation across various contexts. In some works, it underscores subtle shifts in circumstance or character, such as noting that one state of affairs was not unlike others [1] or conveying a personal sense of alienation [2]. In artistic and philosophical discussions, it distinguishes creative methods and disparate perspectives—whether asking if music is unlike pictures [3] or describing an entirely alternative mode of performance [4]. The term also appears in more analytical realms, quantifying variations in mathematics [5] or delineating shifts in historical and social orders [6, 7, 8]. In this way, “different” becomes a versatile tool, capturing both concrete variations like size or color [9, 10] and more abstract changes in mood, manner, and meaning, thereby enriching literary expression across genres.
- Circumstantial evidence makes it probable that it was not different in this particular from the two others.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - And she was ashamed because she did feel different from the people she had lived amongst.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - “Do you think music is so different from pictures?”
— from Howards End by E. M. Forster - Thus armed against the glances of the curious, I sat down at Canano’s table and commenced to play in quite a different fashion.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Let us take the cases where Alfonso has 6 doubloons, and see how we may obtain all the 704 different ways indicated above.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - But the zeal of Antioch was diverted, since the reign of Christianity, into a different channel.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza - Different treaties are made on [Pg 33] different terms, but they are all concluded in the same general method.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy - They were of different sizes, and some had their mahouts or palanquins on their backs.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Schlegel thinks that this refers to the marble of different colours with which the houses were adorned.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
