Sentence examples for a defining example of from inspiring English sources

It was a defining example of the sporting life at the lower end of Brooklyn's basketball food chain.

Another acquisition Mr. Lowry described as a defining example of an artist's work is Beuys's "Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963," from a private collection in Munich.

"While this creative outpouring today stands as a defining example of modern abstraction," Ms. Du Pont writes, "his art did not receive the recognition it deserved, neither at the time of its making nor during the artist's lifetime".

The film drew heavily from the conventions of Westerns, and is a defining example of the masala film, which mixes several genres in one work.

Guffey's look of untarnished wonder is one of the emotional signposts in Spielberg's alien-encounter story and a defining example of the "Spielberg face".

The case in point is one of acknowledged editorial excellence and cultural importance: the reconstruction of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, beginning with Lachmann's 1850 edition [1], a defining example of modern textual criticism [2] [4].

The piling up of rubbish on the country's streets, caused by a failure to agree on a new landfill site – and seen as a profound indignity by Lebanese – has become the defining example of the country's dysfunction.

This reminds me of the defining example of chutzpah: someone who murders his parents and then seeks the mercy of the court as an orphan.

(Incidentally, surely the defining example of the absurdity of self-censorship is that the Danish cartoon that did not feature an image of the prophet but instead the legend "Jyllands-Posten's journalists are a bunch of reactionary provocateurs" was also deemed too dangerous to publish by every newspaper in Britain).

Nicholas Felton's annual Feltron Report is the defining example of the category.

For that matter the Meno makes inspiration its defining example of ignorant truth-speaking.