Sentence examples for examples of a certain from inspiring English sources

Sixty years ago, Terence Rattigan's plays ("The Browning Version," "The Winslow Boy," "Separate Tables") were superior examples of a certain style of pained upper-middle-class English reticence in which powerful emotions were held in check by such virtues as loyalty, courage, and honor.

Examples of essential properties tend to be controversial, largely because the most plausible examples of a certain object's possessing a property essentially are only as plausible as the thesis that that object possesses those properties at all.

In fact, the sounds of the corresponding drums in different kits may differ considerably (e.g., depending on the tension of the skin, the use of muffling in case of kick drum, or the instrument used to hit the drum that can be a mallet, a stick, rods, or brushes) and using only two examples of a certain drum category to recognise a third one is a difficult problem.

It is almost too much to look at, the glorification of God and empire through the unlimited application of worldly wealth, the ultimate example of a certain type of religious gesture.

The song was teenage heartbreak writ large and remains perhaps the most dramatic example of a certain strain of mid-Sixties pop melodrama, wherein everything - the music, the delivery, the production - was overloaded.

Feminism out there in the real world needs visible role models and, like it or not, Margaret Thatcher remains the most enduring example of a certain kind of contemporary womanhood.

The movie isn't up to the standards of "Woman of the Year," which it means to imitate, but it's a classic example of a certain kind of 1950's film that always included a fashion show -- Thursday at 6 p.m. on TCM.

In a similar vein, Nabokov's posthumously published "Lectures on Literature" reprints a corny magazine ad that Nabokov liked to show to his students at Cornell, as an example of a certain kind of sunny American materialism and kitsch (or poshlost, in Russian): it's an ad for flatware featuring a young housewife, hands clasped, eyes brimming as she contemplates a place setting.

Stuart Jeffries piece on faith and unbelief is an example of a certain kind of liberal intellectual position which seeks to stand above the current debates about the place of religion in contemporary society, to (using the term Jeffries is so fond of) wryly adjudicate from the sidelines.

As a Muslim who was born to parents born overseas, I find it appalling that people are using this as an excuse to make racist comments … I think it's another example of a certain far-right minority who are using this to spread their vile dogma.

Cos and Zara have some lovely things for all ages and – going by the example of a certain 65-year-old woman who once had the honour of giving birth to me – Hobbs, LK Bennett and dear old Marks & Spencer are still quite the ticket.