Length itself is one of the genre's defining elements.
Rats and drug paraphernalia were the block's defining elements; police sirens were its sound track.
He and contemporaries like Wayne McAllister adapted by building hotels with towers that replaced neon signs as the defining elements.
That process will leave the urban landscape denuded of what, since Victorian times, has been one of its defining elements.
He couldn't do much to its basic form; the defining elements — dots, lines, color — were by now unalterable.
For the first time, Ridge Racer moves away from traditional racing, instead concentrating on vehicle combat and destruction of urban environments, although some defining elements do remain.
"It was only natural to find the specific elements, the defining elements, of the last record and to eliminate those and create holes," Mr. Keating said.
A dose of escapism in adult life is no bad thing, but one of the greatest defining elements of adulthood is that our mature imaginations do not require physical playthings.
The patterns of branching as well as bark color and texture are the defining elements.
These theorists would add to the four defining elements above some set of political roles or functions.
