A distinctive characteristic of humans as compared with other mammals is erect posture.
This "cult of cute" is such a distinctive characteristic of modern Japanese culture that, even in English, it is often referred to by its name of kawaii.
This is why so many entomologists are now genitalia obsessed, examining specimens under the microscope and assessing whether the arrangement of penile bumps and hairs is a distinctive characteristic of a new species or not.
Csikszentmihalyi's work culminated in his definition of a distinctive characteristic of creative people: the capacity to experience "flow," which he defined as the timeless and total involvement of individuals in the activity with which they are engaged.
Just about every new Muppet on the show, each of whom joins the likes of Big Bird, Elmo and Cookie Monster, is introduced with a distinctive characteristic to teach the young audience a valuable life lesson.
In other words, the findings did not, as Dr. White's team inferred, overturn what is known as the savanna hypothesis associated with the evolution of upright walking — bipedalism — as a distinctive characteristic setting prehumans apart from ancestral apes.
A distinctive characteristic of Old Saxon, shared with Old Frisian and Old English, is its preservation of the voiceless stops (p, t, k) common to all Germanic languages; in High German these stops were affricates (pf, tz, kh) or long fricatives (ff, ss, hh).
A distinctive characteristic of the biological sciences, especially evolutionary theory, is their reliance on teleological language, or language expressive of a plan, purpose, function, goal, or end, as in: "The purpose of the plates on the spine of the Stegosaurus was to control body temperature".
This filter has a distinctive characteristic.
Fashionable style is defined as a distinctive characteristic or way of expression.
