The phrase "as set apart" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is distinguished or separated from others in a specific context.
Example: "The artist's unique style is as set apart from traditional techniques as night is from day."
Alternatives: "distinct from" or "separate from".
Many in the UK see London as set apart by both.
Arbus, who called all families "creepy," used her camera to measure individuals against society; she thought of herself as set apart, too, by talent.
Inherited wealth doesn't yet play a big part in our society, but given time -- and the repeal of the estate tax -- we will grow ourselves a hereditary elite just as set apart from the concerns of ordinary Americans as old Horace Havemeyer.
Too often, historians of the second world war have seen their subject as set apart from other wars by its sheer geographical extent, its special barbarisms, its claim to be the only war to earn the unenviable sobriquet of "total war".
The dual definition of metaphysics reflects a twofold way of considering existence or being itself: when it is taken as set apart from any condition, and hence taken to be absolute, being is the subject-matter of metaphysical investigation.
Include it in text as well as set apart.
As a somewhat arrogant and action-oriented American who saw herself as somehow set apart, even as our roles differed little, it used to frustrate me that my female colleagues wouldn't just stop making tea if they disliked doing it.
Do you think of yourself as an animal or do you see yourself, and your fellow humans, as somehow set apart from the rest of the animal kingdom?
It must in terms of cohesion, for no one gains from the entrenchment one sees in the US, where so many regard New York and Washington as lands set apart by wealth and insular politics.
If you add that no other living species has language, complex symbolic expression, or such a rich material culture, you have a heady mix of factors that very much drives our view of ourselves as being set apart.
The problem around American society's current discussion on consent, according to Boas, is that it's taught as something set apart from the act itself.
