1. blending - Noun
2. blending - Verb
of Blend
The act of mingling.
The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPatience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. Thomas Hardy
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. Alfred Jarry
I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep. Charlotte Brontë
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath. Terry Eagleton
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions. Erich Fromm
From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend. Lucy Larcom