Sentence examples for basic traits from inspiring English sources

In fact, besotted lovers express all four of the basic traits of addiction: craving; tolerance; withdrawal; and relapse.

Later, the experts tied elements of the disorders to distortions in basic traits.

Efficiency in the opposition box and defensive rigidity, two basic traits that Germany could always fall back on, have become scarce commodities.

Evans's pictures, lean, laconic and deadpan, are great works of ambiguous art, their ambiguity being a sign of respectful communication, one of great art's basic traits.

Lay this over the Galápagoan nature of Manhattan -- an island where the indigenous species are insulated from others, intensifying basic traits into startling mutations -- and you have got a rich subject for parody.

"Shrewsbury were better so we're fortunate to still be in the Cup," said David Moyes, who did not try to dress up a performance devoid of class and even of more basic traits.

I'd like to look, however, at a more basic trait that animates Haitian music.

This frugality, its most basic trait, is then tempered by its second most basic trait, its agglutinative nature — the construction of words by the incessant addition of prefixes and suffixes to the roots.

Now, many years later, I understand that this discontent is the basic trait that turns a person into a writer.

When drunk cool, not cold, the wine yields apricot and peach flavors along with litchi, a basic trait of gewürztraminer.

It's such a basic trait but it's inspirational when someone like that is in the team.