Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.

The Doors ' first hit single " Light My Fire " ( 1967 ), running for over seven minutes, became one of the defining records of the genre, although their follow up album Strange Days only enjoyed moderate success.

Science fiction author and physicist Gregory Benford has declared that: " SF is perhaps the defining genre of the twentieth century, although its conquering armies are still camped outside the Rome of the literary citadels.

Each increased the number of weekly episodes transmitted by at least one, further defining soap opera as the leading genre in British television.

While there is no authoritative list of the defining characteristics of the screwball comedy genre, films considered to be definitive of the genre usually feature farcical situations, a combination of slapstick with fast-paced repartee and show the struggle between economic classes.

Many were left wondering if the latest in the Electronic Battle Weapon series were simply one off experiments or signal a new direction they could take with the new album, perhaps swaying from their genre defining big beat albums of the past.

Their " Virgin Years " and later albums became a defining influence in the genre known as New Age music, although the band themselves disliked the term.

The genre itself serves as an ecosystem, defining our interpretation and creation of genre.

He does this by defining the Patient Medical History Form as a genre.

Heralding the use of the laptop as a DIY production tool and live performance instrument, the musicians gathered around Mego were seminal in defining a new genre of electronic music, defying conventions of both dancefloor oriented electronica and the academic field of electroacoustics.

But the game industry generally credits games such as Rainbow Six with defining and refining the tactical shooter genre.

It is one of the defining works of the psychedelic rock genre and has been covered by many artists.

However, Franck did not publish or perform his piece ; neither did he set about defining the genre.

Conjunto (, group ) literally translates as " group ," and is regionally accepted in Texas as defining a genre of music ( also known as Conjunto music ) that was born out of south Texas at the end of the 19th Century, after German settlers introduced the button accordion.

This produces a very " thick " or " heavy " guitar tone, which is one of the defining characteristics of the genre.

Early Greek lyric poetry, as represented by poets such as Sappho and Pindar, was responsible for defining the lyric genre as it is understood today in western literature.

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to " vocal or instrumental alternative music albums containing at least 51 % playing time of newly recorded music ", defining " alternative " as a " non-traditional " genre that exists " outside of the mainstream music consciousness ".

His play, At Home, in which he played every character, was the first monopolylogue and the defining work in the genre.

Alive or Just Breathing is viewed as a defining moment for the genre and was well praised upon its release by fans and critics.

The second characteristic is “ Exhaustive research ,” which she claims allows writers “ novel perspectives on their subjects ” and “ also permits them to establish the credibility of their narratives through verifiable references in their texts .” The third characteristic that Lounsberry claims is crucial in defining the genre is “ The scene ”.

Marketing missteps included releasing the real-time strategy game on the same day Blizzard Entertainment put out its highly-anticipated demo of StarCraft, which would become a defining game of the RTS genre.

It focuses on historical Norse paganism of the Viking Age as described in the Eddas, but proponents also take a more inclusive approach, defining it as " Northern European Heathenry " not limited to a specific historical period.

The early Church in the post-apostolic period was much more involved in " defending its frontiers against alternative soteriologies — either by defining its own position with greater and greater exactness, or by attacking other religions, and particularly the Hellenistic mysteries.

In 2007 Burma and Bangladesh resumed discussions about defining their maritime border after a 21 year period in which no talks were held on this topic.

The publication of the 1996 anthology Rethinking linguistic relativity edited by sociolinguist John J. Gumperz and psycholinguist Stephen C. Levinson marked the entrance to a new period of linguistic relativity studies and a new way of defining the concept that focused on cognitive as well as social aspects of linguistic relativity.

The wars were part of a great national crisis for Scotland and the period became one of the most defining moments in the nation's history.

Initially the Assemblée Constituante considered defining the metre as the length of a pendulum that has a period of one second at 45 ° N and an altitude equal to sea level.

During the medieval period, St Cuthbert became politically important in defining the identity of the people living in the semi-autonomous region known as the Liberty of Durham, later the Palatinate of Durham.

A series of defining documents were written and replaced over a period of 30 years as the doctrinal and political situation changed from the excommunication of Henry VIII in 1533, to the excommunication of Elizabeth I in 1570.

Working during that fertile period of “ isms ,” Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Modigliani did not choose to be categorized within any of these prevailing, defining confines.

Menarche ( the first menstrual period of a female-bodied person ’ s life ) is, for many cultures, the defining point for the beginning of a transition into adulthood.

The Medora Site, a Plaquemine culture mound site located adjacent to Bayou Bourbeaux on the flood plain of Manchac Point, a hair-pin bend of the Mississippi River in the southeast corner of the parish, was instrumental in defining the Plaquemine culture and period.

After defining a " First Period " of inscriptional Latin and the literature of the earliest known authors and fragments, to which he assigns no definitive name ( he does use the term " Old Roman " at one point ), Teuffel presents " the second period ", his major, " das goldene Zeitalter der römischen Literatur ", the Golden Age of Roman Literature, dated 671 – 767 AUC or 83 BC – 14 AD according to his time reckoning, between the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and the death of the emperor Augustus.

Historian Geoffrey Best called the period from 1856 to 1909 the law of war ’ s “ epoch of highest repute .” The defining aspect of this period was the establishment, by states, of a positive legal or legislative foundation ( i. e., written ) superseding a regime based primarily on religion, chivalry, and customs.

The Greeks of this period considered there to be three major divisions of all the Greek people — Dorians, Aeolians and Ionians ( including Athenians ), each with their own defining and distinctive dialects.

The period also saw the emergence of the comic book as a mainstream art form, and the defining of the medium's artistic vocabulary and creative conventions by its first generation of writers, artists, and editors.

For this reason, Adair is often seen as defining what has come to be known as the Lochner era, a period in American legal history in which the Supreme Court tended to invalidate legislation aimed at regulating business.

They agree that the Hebrew word for " day " ( yôm ) can refer to either a 24-hour day or a long or unspecified time, but argue that whenever the latter interpretation is used it includes a preposition defining the long or unspecified period.

The defining period of the rake was at the court of Charles II in the late seventeenth century.

The major and defining event in the history of Indian cricket during this period was the Partition of India following full independence from the British Raj in 1947.

However, the duration of the sleep period is not the defining property of the Mayrarian siesta.

" These were three of the defining songs of the period.

The defining characteristics of Westphalian pumpernickel are coarse rye flour — rye meal — and a very long baking period.

The crater is believed to have been formed about 3. 2 billion years ago, defining the start of this time period.