In fact, the antipathy to outward ceremonies hailed by modern exponents as so uniquely characteristic of the `` direct thinking '' Zennist was a feature of Taoism.

Moderately elevated tablelands are thus the characteristic feature of the continent, though the surface of these is broken by higher peaks and ridges.

A concept is a common feature or characteristic.

A distinguishing feature of most Compactrons is the placement of the evacuation tip on the bottom end, rather than the top end as was customary with " miniature " tubes, and a characteristic 3 / 4 " diameter circle pin pattern.

The much more numerous category of vici, " small towns " grew on informal plans, often round a camp or at a ford or crossroads ; some were not small, others were scarcely urban, some not even defended by a wall, the characteristic feature of a place of any importance.

‘ The Old English kenning: A characteristic feature of Germanic poetical diction ?’ Modern Philology 67: 2, pp. 109 – 117.

Another characteristic feature of logical positivism is the commitment to " Unified Science "; that is, the development of a common language or, in Neurath's phrase, a " universal slang " in which all scientific propositions can be expressed.

This is a characteristic feature of LEMS.

The monetary policy called " strong markka policy " ( vahvan markan politiikka ) was a characteristic feature of the 1980s and early 1990s.

One characteristic feature is a tripartite singulative – collective – plurative number system, which Blench ( 2010 ) believes is a result of a noun-classifier system in the protolanguage.

In its common meaning, the term is used to identify a characteristic, a feature, a measurable factor that can help in defining a particular system.

The rheumatoid nodule, which is sometimes cutaneous, is the feature most characteristic of rheumatoid arthritis.

A characteristic feature of a running body from the viewpoint of spring-mass mechanics is that changes in kinetic and potential energy within a stride occur simultaneously, with energy storage accomplished by springy tendons and passive muscle elasticity.

Gaseous nitrogen dioxide has a characteristic red absorption feature, and this gives air polluted with nitrogen dioxide a reddish brown color.

The park ( Alameda de la Alhambra ), which is overgrown with wildflowers and grass in the spring, was planted by the Moors with roses, oranges and myrtles ; its most characteristic feature, however, is the dense wood of English elms brought by the Duke of Wellington in 1812.

With the operation of the Einstein observatory, X-ray emission was recognized as a characteristic feature common to a wide range of stars covering essentially the whole Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.

A characteristic feature of diatom cells is that they are encased within a unique cell wall made of silica ( hydrated silicon dioxide ) called a frustule.

" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The most striking feature in the reform was the return to manual labour, especially field-work, a special characteristic of Cistercian life.

Multiculturalism has been a characteristic feature of the island of Mauritius.

Copper rivet s for reinforcing pockets are a characteristic feature of blue jeans.

However, the Carlist Zouaves also wore a distinctive feature that differentiated them from existing zouave regiments elsewhere, in the form of a beret of Basque influence with a characteristic tassel.

Their most characteristic feature is the conspicuous white-feather ring around the eye, though some species lack it.

This division was based on the most prominent common feature shared by the fur seals and absent in the sea lions, namely the dense underfur characteristic of the latter.

This announcement or striking feature is an essential characteristic of true clocks and distinguishes such watches from ordinary timepieces.

) The concept of nationalism is the political principle that epitomizes and glorifies the territorial state as the characteristic type of socal structure.

Their rebellion against authoritarian society is not far removed from the violence of revolt characteristic of the juvenile delinquent.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

A chief characteristic of experience in the mode of causal efficacy is one of derivation from the past.

A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

A similar amateurish characteristic is revealed in Adams' failure to check the accuracy and authenticity of his informational sources.

The most obvious characteristic of contemporary American writing, apart from the beat nonsense, is its cosmopolitanism.

`` Do you suppose his self-consciousness is characteristic of the new Negro professionals or merely of doctors in general ''??

In snakes difference in size is a common characteristic of subspecies.

The characteristic polynomial for A is Af and this is plainly also the minimal polynomial for A ( or for T ).

The process of boundary maintenance identifies and preserves the social system or subsystems, and the characteristic interaction is maintained.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

Similarly, at the opposite end of the market cycle, towards the end of an intermediate or major decline, usually while the bottom is being formed on the price chart, it is characteristic that an increase is noticed in odd-lot selling again alerting the chartist that a bottom is becoming a greater likelihood.

In a society dominated by middle-class values and working in an institution which transmits and strengthens these social values, it is clear that the educational profession must work for the values which are characteristic of the society.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.