Sentence examples for become the mark from inspiring English sources

Can control has become the mark of sophisticated, painterly technique.

Recently, it seems to have become the mark of a really A-list historical disaster that it has featured on Doctor Who.

The willingness to flout international refugee law and to ignore the entreaties of refugees not to be sent back to their home countries has become the mark of chummy bilateral relations between Asian states.

Plunging into the campaign, trailed by the student demonstrators who unwittingly served him as foils, Nixon attacked the "fawning approval" of antiwar violence that in certain "fashionable circles has become the mark of being 'with it.' " The rhetoric was black and white but the election proved inconclusive.

It was appealing for the contrast it presented to most of the new developments and contemporary renovations in the area, which suffered from what his architect, Diana Kellogg, called the "wenge wood problem" — in other words, they were stamped with the luxury-developer's aesthetic, which was a cliché at the time and would later become the mark of a boom gone sour.

And the dash is indispensible for surrounding a list that already contains commas -- weakly beginning a sentence with a conjunction, misspelling indispensable, and incorrectly using a comma before the and preceding the final item in a series -- but undiluted dashiness has become the mark of the slapdash writer who fails to take the trouble to differentiate among the pauses of punctuation.

Money and its generation became the mark of his self-esteem and ambition.

But as staying in touch electronically becomes the mark of modern movers and shakers, many people say they will gladly allow their presence to be known in exchange for the convenience of constant contact.

In the 17th century, when the Anhui style became popular among wealthy collectors in the area of present-day Shanghai, propagated in part through wood-block catalogs illustrating Anhui's vaunted ink and painting-paper products, ownership of a Hongren painting became the mark of a knowing connoisseur.

For budding entertainers, being summoned to sit to the master's right became the mark of having "made it".

His forehead was marked by the black callus that has become the defining mark of piety for men.