The disappearance of the great lyric and poetic styles, the fossilizing of education as it came to be completely based on rhetoric (paideia), and the growing importance of philosophical and religious polemical literature among both pagans and Christians were the basic traits that, as early as the 3rd century, foreshadowed the intellectual life of the late empire.
Efficiency in the opposition box and defensive rigidity, two basic traits that Germany could always fall back on, have become scarce commodities.
Basic traits that define a clade must have remained as they were at the start.
"It's a basic human trait that's in our DNA," said Eli Wilner, a leading dealer in antique frames whose clients include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution and the White House.
I suspect that humans are hardwired to remember the negative memories, perhaps through some basic evolutionary trait that focuses our brains on constant improvement, or at the very least avoiding painful things to survive.
"It seems like we're aiming at a child audience, but everyone can laugh at the basic human traits that are funny.
Three thousand is just a number, but it's a good proxy for all the qualities of sustained baseball excellence — the basic traits of Jeterness — that are easy to see but hard to quantify.
It should be noted that the characteristics of the two series display dissimilarities in the frequency of a few prognostic parameters (Table 1), although all examined patients shared the common basic trait of bearing a tumour that could be dealt with enucleation.
In amphibians, basic physiologic and anatomic traits that vary among species, such as skin sloughing rate and skin thickness, could provide innate defenses against the keratinophilic activity of B. dendrobatidis (5, 27 ).
