The third category is based partly on the Doctrine of Signatures in which a plant characteristic is considered to have a desirable quality or to have a physical property that resembles the desired game.
Is pragmatism in fact a desirable quality in a leader?
Eventually, this accident of culture turned into a desirable quality; a cheese's negative space acquired value.
Aequanimitas, which he regarded as the most desirable quality for doctors, was the title of the most famous of these.
Sorkin came close, making a questioning, troubled intellect seem a desirable quality for a politician to have, even in an era where the soundbite had come to power.
At a workshop titled "Reinventing the Workplace," the desirable quality that came up most frequently among the 70 or so leaders who attended was authenticity.
First, these early smartwatches are thick and chunky — a desirable quality in a stew, maybe, but not for the delicate of wrist.
Anonymity may be a desirable quality for a corporate whistle-blower or a Chinese political blogger, but it is an almost entirely destructive force in the online discourse of the West, and Siegel is right to say so.
You know it's going to be really steamy when the white bathrobes, white bathsheets and 'crisp' duvets come out - though crispness, come to think of it, is not a particularly desirable quality in a duvet.
For Congreve's lovers, wit is the most desirable quality one can find in a mate, and the play's hero and heroine bear more than a passing resemblance to Benedick and Beatrice in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing".
Perhaps my reflex of indignation had something to do with the fact that I was studying English at the time... and thus not attuned to think of happiness as a particularly desirable quality.
