There is also a section called "Connections," in which staff members present distinctive video essays about their aesthetic passions, with allusive titles like "Magic" or "Dark Energy".
Finally, and most important, what do we learn about you personally? "What's particular and distinctive about this essay?" said Jeffrey Brenzel, Yale's dean of undergraduate admissions, in describing what he and his colleagues seek.
The distinctive brilliance of Gopnik's essays lies in his ability to pick up a subject one would never have imagined it possible to think deeply about and then cover it in thoughts, making connections with literature, sociology and philosophy -- all treated in a highly readable way.
Also, the distinctive vocabulary of the longer essays tends to be concentrated in sections of those texts that have no parallel in shorter essays, suggesting that portions of the longer texts were modeled closely on the older, shorter ones and then supplemented by newly composed material.
The town of Gilead serves as an emblem of the forgotten past of the middle west, a "highly distinctive and crucial region", Robinson argued in one essay, "that is very generally assumed to have neither culture nor history".
Third, in some longer essays, paragraphs that run parallel to a shorter essay alternate with other paragraphs in which distinctive stylistic and linguistic features are clustered (Fraser forthcoming [b]).
Other of Young's essays, for example, "Pregnant Embodiment," "Breasted Experience" and "Menstrual Meditations," focus on distinctive aspects of female embodiment that yield distinct ways of being in the world.
After introducing the international debate on TDR and the distinctive features of the transfer of development rights in Italy, the essay analyses the specificity of TDR programs in Lombardy.
But as we saw at the outset of this essay, what phenomenal consciousness is is a mental state with distinctive subjective aspect or feel.
The film, assembling critics and colleagues to reflect on Sebald's 1998 book, "The Rings of Saturn," is both an essay in interpretation and an attempt to replicate the writer's distinctive, elusive sensibility in a visual medium.
