Sentence examples for external trappings from inspiring English sources

This is a standard modus operandi of pseudoscience: it adopts the external trappings of science, but without the substance.

Of course, a reproduction of a man's external trappings is no substitute for one that captures his essence, as Giacometti himself learns throughout the play.

As the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin observed, The revolutionary dictatorship of the doctrinaires who put science before life would differ from the established state only in external trappings.

The revolutionary dictatorship of the doctrinaires who put science before life would differ from the established state only in external trappings.

As Joseph Gordon-Levitt's elusive girlfriend in (500) Days of Summer, Zooey Deschanel has all the external trappings of individuality – aloofness, a sly smile, vintage clothes and indie tastes – but she has no more inner life than Petrarch's Laura.

True, the tempi could sometimes seem sluggish, but far more often this was to miss the point of a musical experience where all external trappings were deliberately dropped in the pursuit of one man's absolute artistic integrity.

This is a record performance for n-channel organic transistor with inherent charge-trapping capability without using external charge trapping agents.

Ever rising stocks, real estate the clear sure thing, and all the other trappings of a life focused on the external.

It should probably not come as a surprise that at a professional level, engineering design is characterised by many of the artefacts and trappings of any other creative design profession, one in which external media play an intimate role not solely as documentation, but as sources for ideation, communication among a design team and as a basis for a coherent coordination of the team's activities.

It could theoretically decrease the work of breathing and hence carbon dioxide production, while limiting gas-trapping by splinting the airways open [ 29, 30]; however, in practice there are situations in which the application of external PEEP may increase total PEEP and worsen gas-trapping.

In defect-trapping RRAM, the defect diffusion direction is longitudinal, which is parallel to the external electric field.