Sentence examples for a characteristic statement from inspiring English sources
For as long as the sonar-riddled soundtrack of "The Hunt for Red October" has me mouthing the word "ping" while I keep reaching for the popcorn, I don't want to hear that what I'm seeing is an example of anything, or a step to anywhere, or a characteristic statement by anyone.
The reductionist about a given area of discourse ("A-discourse") maintains that its characteristic statements ("A-statements") are reducible to analyzable or translatable without loss of content into statements of some other type ("B-statements"), which are usually thought to be philosophically less problematic.
A characteristic Williams statement was her reply to a question put to her by Rolling Stone last December about her hopes for the next millennium: Lucinda, expressing a loathing for the boom economy, called for a stock-market crash and longed for a Depression, a peculiar dream for a woman who only now — that is, in the past eighteen months, say — has money in a bank account.
I was reminded of this characteristic statement while reading "Frontier," in which one senses the rigorous forward motion of Can Xue's technique forming her vision as the narrative develops.
Some of his friends joke that his most characteristic statements begin, "It is and it isn't".
One of the characteristic statements is: "I read things that are on the information boards.
While viewing the assigned pack image, respondents were asked to rate packs on various pack, smoker and taste characteristic statements (see table 1).
This was a characteristic North Korean statement — a nondenial intended to make readers disbelieve it.
Simply stated, a hypothesis is a clear statement of a characteristic of a population and usually its numerical value, or of a relationship among characteristics (something happens associated with something else), that may or may not be true.
A characteristic expression?
