Sentence examples for distinctive whole from inspiring English sources

More synthesist than innovator, he blended disparate influences into a distinctive whole, which now seems very much of our time.

The four men lucked into that happy accident whereby a disjointed set of playing styles gels into an ingenious and distinctive whole.

Casella was an eclectic before eclecticism became trendy, and his derivative four-movement Third Symphony, written for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and given its premiere in 1941, reveals many influences but doesn't gel into a particularly distinctive whole.

In a study to test the hypothesis that patients with schizophrenia are unable to link the separate aspects of events into a cohesive, memorable, and distinctive whole, it was shown that such patients exhibited an impaired recognition memory and a reduction in frequency of autonoetic awareness relative to a control group [54].

Through deep engagement with a diverse, cross-border community that yearns to be understood as a distinctive, coherent whole, Rituals of Ethnicity presents an argument for the continued value of locally situated ethnography in a multisited world.

That's not to say they're ugly — the composite weave pattern on the back is handsome and distinctive, and the whole thing exudes a sort of minimalist charm, but it feels like Motorola's main concern with these default builds was to keep design from getting in the way of functionality.

This suggests that humans do not act suitably to what is distinctive to their whole nature, and in particular suitable to that end which draws on many of the principles of human nature when they act only from those principles that they share with animals and not according to conscience.

Nevertheless, slavery did give a distinctive tone to the whole pattern of Southern life.

The exception, a single, modular painting, bold in color and design, seems to point to a whole other distinctive body of work.

Taken as a whole, these distinctive generational characteristics affect everything from the type of jobs Millennials gravitate toward to how they plan for their financial future.

Though he weighs and measures each ingredient of his paintings like a fastidious cook, using nothing that doesn't add a distinctive flavor to the whole, he seems too eccentric, too quirkily inventive to carry on the legacy of Kasimir Malevich or to be in league with Sol Lewitt, Richard Serra or Donald Judd.