Lanier was technologically precocious, as well as artistically minded, a mixture of traits that his father tried to nurture by giving him books about Buckminster Fuller.
The animal seemed to exhibit a mixture of traits from early birds and their dinosaur predecessors, fitting within the pattern of authentic feathered dinosaurs that were just beginning to be described in the peer-reviewed literature.
Most organisms are not just paedomorphic or peramorphic but a mixture of traits that evolved by both peramorphic and paedomorphic processes.
Tris' secret, which you learn about in the first couple of chapters, is that she doesn't really belong to any faction, she is a mixture of traits from several factions, which is called Divergent, and is seen in this dystopian society as something that needs to be repressed.
The Problem with "Naughty OR Nice" is the word, "Or" When we tell kids or sing songs about being naughty or nice we give kids the impression that they are either-or when it's important for them to learn and understand that we are all a mixture of traits.
Multivariate BLUPs can be derived when data are a mixture of continuous traits and observed discrete traits controlled by logistic latent traits.
To symbolise the spiritual connection he had found in music via the works of Meher Baba and Inayat Khan, he programmed a mixture of human traits into a synthesizer and used it as the main backing instrument throughout the song.
I tried to write Vuto as a mixture of the traits my Malawian friend Lauren had and those that a typical village woman might have as well -- tied to the place in which she was born and raised, yet thinking beyond that village to what the rest of the world might have to offer her as a woman, as a mother, as a global citizen.
A good functional group will have a mixture of complementary traits (e.g., a balance of cooperative people and free-riders: a negative frequency dependency process).
Unlike the cross-dressing sexual rebels of the Belle Époque, whose intention was to be outrageous, Earhart — whose intention was to stay aloft both as a pilot and as a celebrity — projected a confusing mixture of traits with such an aura of virtue and assurance that she disarmed received ideas about femininity, even those of conservatives.
