Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
He that lends, gives.
Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music
Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin on anything, really, if you know what you're doing, but it's not always desirable to have your reader laughing on every page.
The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.
Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. . . . Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form. . . this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.
