Sentence examples for abiding characteristics from inspiring English sources

One of its abiding characteristics was an ability to colonise entire social landscapes that had previously existed some way beneath its original focus.

His name is Elric, a frail, drug-addicted albino and the reluctant ruler of the kingdom of Melniboné, where revenge and hedonism are abiding characteristics, and human beings are enslaved.

This is one of my abiding characteristics; the included reference list below will drive that point home should you choose to contact them in reference to my previous employment.

The relaxed air is the abiding characteristic of the album.

I ask him if he's attracted to cultures whose abiding characteristic is delicacy.

It accentuated the fact that an abiding characteristic of modern life is that it is full of small sins and sidesteps.

It is within the public lounges of both the Shelbourne and Merrion Hotels, over pots of tea or a drink, that the most abiding characteristic of Dublin's citizens can be witnessed, unadulterated by changing economic circumstances: the intense hum of conversation.

The changing emphases of feminist perspectives in aesthetics and philosophy of art over the last four decades are evident in philosophy, art theory, criticism and commentary on the arts, and in the practice of artists themselves, testimony to the degree to which philosophy and cultural production travel hand in hand, which is an abiding characteristic of the field of aesthetics itself.

Even though the Sanskrit term vijñāna (which in the Upaniṣads designates consciousness as an abiding characteristic of the self) is adopted by the Buddhists as an appropriate designation for consciousness, the interpretations found in the Nikāyas and the early Abhidharma deny its immutability and instead regard it as indistinct from perceptual cognition.

The aim of the Low, when they have an aim--for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives--is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

The reactions to WikiLeaks share one abiding characteristic, so obvious that it can easily be overlooked, namely an unwillingness to address with any sophistication or seriousness the complex and everchanging world that the US -- and all of us -- must now deal with.