Some of the best films are just excellent specimens of familiar types.
Although they had found some excellent specimens of the earliest birds, such as Germany's famed 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx, as well as stunning later fossils from northeastern China, a 20-million-year gap remained between Archaeopteryx and other fossils, most of which were opposite birds, Chiappe says.
Ten minutes later, I was talking to Walsh with the excitement a reporter feels when getting to know an excellent specimen of the tribe.
I dropped a jar over it and captured an excellent specimen of a male black widow, dainty and thinner than its sisters.
Notman himself accurately described it as an "excellent specimen of the Italian style of architecture," whose "beautiful proportions" along with its "fine details and massive crowning cornice, give it an air of stateliness and grandeur".
"Lament and Prayer" is an excellent specimen of Mr. Kernis's acute sense of timeliness, being one in a series of memorials -- here remembering the Holocaust, but in other music Bosnia and 9/11.
Finding an excellent specimen of the Cuban sandwich — roast pork, ham and Swiss cheese with pickles on a roll, panini-pressed into gooey, crispy deliciousness — should, I figured, be easy.
Fiddler last surfaced, along with his brother Thomas ("Bubz"), in the funk group Mr. Fiddler back in 1989; their record was an excellent specimen of soulful if derivative P-Funk that sank without a trace.
And according to naturalism, the good life is the life characteristically lived by someone who is good qua human being, and the virtues enable their possessor to live such a life because the virtues just are those character traits that make their possessor good qua human being (an excellent specimen of her kind) (Foot 2001).
James Ross, captain of, later described their involvement as "a most excellent specimen of what they are likely to be.
Unlike mice, the accessibility of the avian embryos makes them excellent specimens for experimental embryology [9], [17] and time-lapse microscopy [18], [19].
