Sentence examples for characteristic example from inspiring English sources

A characteristic example of the style is the well-known koan "When both hands are clapped a sound is produced; listen to the sound of one hand clapping".

To take one small but characteristic example, this is Mr Nuttall on one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies: "'As You Like It' is, then, true pastoral.

They tend to be marginal and isolated: David Koresh, who led his Branch Davidians into a fiery and fatal confrontation with the FBI, was a characteristic example.

(Susan Jacoby's essay on "The Blessings of Atheism" in the most recent Sunday Review is a characteristic example of these arguments in action).

Although there was a commercial undertone to our stay in Fezna, the episode was typical of the relaxed hospitality we experienced everywhere in Morocco, and a characteristic example of how easy it can be to veer off the tourist trail.

Here is a characteristic example, referring to the marriage of some very minor Melville cousins: The tragic estrangement and its aftermath surfaced repeatedly in the letters of the next years, and reached one of its climaxes during the composition of Moby-Dick, a few months before Melville wrote the Patroons into Pierre.

Characteristic examples on show include a wonderful bust of Cicero.

Characteristic examples are Glen Andred (1866 67) and Wispers (1876), both in Sussex, and Adcote (1876 81) in Shropshire.

His Pietà (1890) and Christ in Olympus (1896) are also characteristic examples of his work.

Talk of the new wave dominated Cannes in 1959, when films as different from each other as Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus, Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour and Truffaut's Les Quatre cents coups were perceived as characteristic examples of the new movement.

Historically, the United Kingdom and the United States provide characteristic examples of the struggle for woman suffrage in the 19th and 20th centuries.