And it reminds you, too, how often these collective, defining attributes of university are neglected in the continuing debate about the funding and relevance of degree-level study.
What social scientists delicately call "ethnocentrism" and "racial resentment" and "ingroup solidarity" are defining attributes of conservative voting behavior, and help organize a familiar if not necessarily rational coalition of ideological interests.
In semiotic analysis, categorization has typically been structured around either: 1) adherence to what has been termed an "Aristotelian" vision of categorical inclusion based upon uniform defining attributes of all members (Frege 1952), or 2) membership based upon polythetic "family resemblance" and even degrees of conformity to "stereotypy" (cf. Wittgenstein 1953 and Putnam 1975).
That awareness of others' perceptions is a defining attribute of a high potential.
If one works towards programs whose "thinking" is constitutionally incapable of violating predetermined constraints, one is trying to engineer away the defining attribute of an intelligent being, of a person: namely creativity.
Here we find yet again a defining attribute of the Obama legacy: the transformation of what was until recently a symbol of right-wing radicalism - warrantless eavesdropping - into meekly accepted bipartisan consensus.
In fact, that floating but grounded quality is the defining attribute of his music – like a person wanting to believe in magic, but knowing it's all just sleight of hand.
Another defining attribute of an object's orbit around the Sun is its inclination, which is the angle that it makes with the plane of Earth's orbit the ecliptic plane.
Although Garutti and his team knew that some customers would pan the change, they went forward with it because the new item is fresher and higher quality and tastes better – each a defining attribute of the Shake Shack brand.
In addition to smaller wheel size and a step-through frame, the third defining attribute of a scooter is an automatic transmission.
That architecture can and should have a socially and politically progressive agenda was, after all, a defining attribute of modernism — to bring design to the masses, to produce not only a new aesthetic but also a new egalitarian order.
