one-handedness

Example Sentences

• "Again some persons are too right-handed (I question, indeed, whether one-handedness, whether right or left be chiefly employed, does not in all cases involve a loss of power)."
• "It must be noted that the stimulating hypotheses of Cairns-Smith (1982) emphasizing the role of clays in the origin of life do not account for the crucial one-handedness of biopolymers required to ensure the survival of self-replicating organic systems."
• "The young man had married a woman who had only one hand, and it was on the fact of her one-handedness that my thought was focused."
• "Phenomenologically speaking, such differences are immediately incorportated into the lived body by being endowed with meaning in the context of one's everyday activities. Thus one-handedness can be lived, for example, as difficulty with pouring water into a jug, blindness--as exclusion from social interaction, and deafness -- as peaceful silence in the midst of a noisy journey."
• "A later generation of bebop pianists would often be accused of one-handedness; their right hands flew along with melodies and improvisations, while their "weak" left hands just plonked chords."
• "One-handedness is essential for training to great skill in balanced action with any sensible design of weapon, as in fencing, but more especially when fighting from behind a tree or when being prepared to run if overcome (except possibly with bows and arrows where the defense handedness is reversed.)"