Sentence examples for an unusual trait from inspiring English sources

Even so, to combine his flow of comic invention with such equilibrium of temperament seems like an unusual trait.

Drug addiction is not an unusual trait among people caught robbing banks, say agents who pursue them.

Before colonization the Yana had relatively frequent skirmishes with their neighbours, an unusual trait for California Indians.

It is not an unusual trait for a successful person to turn his back on the contributions of those who helped in the past; it is just an unattractive one.

These brilliantly-coloured insects produce an intensely painful venom, yet neighbouring species still resemble each other so closely that they are barely distinguishable, an unusual trait known as Müllerian mimicry.

But their examination of how an unusual trait in Chinese culture worked its way through politics and intellectual life is a fascinating attempt to reconcile China's current success with its past suffering.

"It's a very unusual trait to find". As an art history student at UC Santa Cruz, he matched his interest in cityscapes with a desire to write by covering city planning meetings for the school newspaper.

But pragmatism of that kind is a very unusual trait, and especially unusual in politicians.

Over the past six years, I have interviewed more than 50 such leaders, some for as long as eight hours, and found that most of them share a somewhat unusual trait: They have the predisposition and the capacity to hold in their heads two opposing ideas at once.

More often a special unity results from some unusual trait of musical style or use of an instrument.

His "gimmick" was to chew on a toothpick during matches, and this unusual trait was picked up on by cartoonists of the time.