Sentence examples for abstract traits from inspiring English sources

(We're told that Franklin Roosevelt, raised as an only child, with breakfast at eight o'clock and lessons in the morning and afternoon, was "scheduled to the hilt," but how a researcher at the University of Texas has recently been able to evaluate only children for abstract traits like leadership, maturity, extroversion, and popularity is anyone's guess).

The kinship panorama, in a text that even with generous leading comes to less than three hundred pages, spreads itself thin: Teddy and Tip, physically hard to distinguish, are built around rather abstract traits — a religious, do-gooding streak and a categorizing scientific bent, respectively.

When he talks about his extraordinary success as a surgeon, he gives the impression that he is talking about some abstract trait that he is neither responsible for nor completely able to understand.

Although researchers have not agreed on whether or not innovativeness is the highest abstract trait, several studies have shown values to be a central feature of a person's cognitive structure (Burgess 1992; Hartman et al. 2006).

More recently, adults with AS were found to recall fewer specific details in autobiographical memories, and to express their identities using significantly more abstract trait-linked statements than comparison participants [17], [18].

Construct validity is the ability of an instrument to measure an abstract concept, which cannot be observed directly and which has been constructed to represent an abstract trait [ 17].

We've heard the word "Presidential" bandied around a lot lately, denoting some abstract personality trait distinct from policy platforms and legislative records.

He saw both the need for and the ways to eliminate war in individuals and in their ways, and not in abstract or innate traits.

Traits: Abstract, rational, ingenious, independent Book: This type is the most likely to enjoy reading up on philosophy, as they think very abstractly (see: Mr. Ramsay from "To the Lighthouse").

This belief in individual rights -- and activities -- rather than in organized group endeavors is, like the distrust of abstract thought, one English trait that seems to have persisted.

Methods: Mathematical methods were used to assign trait semantics (abstract morphological representations) of the images of neotropical Miocene pollen and spores.