Sentence examples for distinctiveness as from inspiring English sources

The S4C service must retain its brand identity and editorial distinctiveness, as well as its special relationship with the independent production sector in Wales.

Yet, in the 19th century, when Joseph Jacobs collected "English" folk tales and fairy stories from all over the archipelago, he was committed to local distinctiveness, as was Giuseppe Pitrè in Sicily or Alexander Afanase'ev in Russia, and their collections include a lot of high spirits, elaborate flights of fancy and colourful language.

These results are consistent with the idea that face-responsive brain regions are sensitive to face distinctiveness as well as the social meaning of the face features.

The species is of scientific interest because of its unique biological adaptations, evolutionary distinctiveness as well as growing concern about its conservation and the impacts of disease on the health of individuals and populations [ 1].

Part of his distinctiveness as a choreographer is his recurrent use of the communal, nonvirtuosic steps and partnerings of folk dance.

Not only are there dozens of his books for us to reread in perpetuity, but his distinctiveness as a stylist shaped many other writers' sensibilities.

Go along to Celts: Art and Identity, the British Museum's myth-busting new exhibition, and you will see that the champions of Welsh, Scottish and even Irish distinctiveness have saluted as well as subverted the UK status quo.

One employs a measure of evolutionary distinctiveness such as phylogenetic diversity (the branch lengths in a phylogeny) as a surrogate for diversification processes (e.g. Vane-Wright et al. 1991; Faith 1992; Forest et al. 2007).

But for a show that supposedly celebrates distinctiveness - as two adolescent computer-nerds struggle above the jock-culture in a 1971 American high-school and win the race to send the first email – it never levitates into its own corresponding originality.

"So how does a group that has historically been so different achieve widespread acceptance without losing its distinctiveness?" Yet as the campaign drew to a close, Mormons in Utah indulged themselves by wondering what a Romney White House might look like.

This chronicle, by a seasoned practitioner, of the halting but persistent ascent of skateboarding is sharp and winning, depicting from the inside the evolution of a subculture that has retained its stylistic distinctiveness even as it has spawned ESPN shows and tacky merchandising franchises.