Sentence examples for covert characteristic from inspiring English sources

Likewise, women with more covert characteristic responded to significant instances of communication avoidance with more avoidance.

Having portrayed himself as a victim, Harris then championed social engineering, arguing that university access required "the sensitive consideration of covert characteristics of applicants, in particular family background and their schooling".

Women with fewer covert characteristics used communication avoidance as a motivator to approach future challenging situations.

Women who identified fewer covert characteristics placed more responsibility on themselves for listener education.

Results indicated that the number of covert characteristics identified by each woman differentiated preferences for listener reactions and outcomes of communication avoidance.

Women who identified more covert characteristics in their interview placed greater responsibility on the listener for knowledge of appropriate reactions to stuttering.

Results revealed that higher impact scores on the "Reactions to Stuttering" and "Communication in Daily Situations" were seen among women who identified more covert characteristics in interviews.

Numbers of covert characteristics identified by each participant were further compared to quantitative scores on the four subtests of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering (Yaruss, Quesal, & Coleman, 2010).

Interview transcripts were further analysed for comments related to defined characteristics of covert stuttering.

Gummy's ruse, as Watkins notes, had a proud history in the way slaves sometimes feigned illness to avoid backbreaking labor; there was thus a cool logic and a covert defiance behind Fetchit's characteristic sloth.

That is, adult ratings of the extent to which each verb exhibits semantic properties characteristic of the "covert class" of un- verbs was a significant predictor of the relative acceptability of that verb in un- form.