Sentence examples for fast distinctions from inspiring English sources

With Brainard it's almost impossible to make fast distinctions between poetry and art.

In keeping with the recent academic trend, contemporary philosophers of religion have been unwilling to maintain hard and fast distinctions between the two disciplines.

Mr. Tommasini cuts a hard and fast distinction between "art" and "life".

For those who expect only male god-language, and who suppose there is a hard and fast distinction between religion and sexuality -- well, surprise.

So we have two modalities for reality: that which is natural and that which is supernatural, the only hard and fast distinction between the two being that the supernatural is a break from the norm and the natural is the norm.

This helps the reader to make a fast distinction between the important and lesser information.

"It is hard to make hard-and-fast distinctions between funds," said Lynn Russell, a mutual fund analyst at Morningstar Inc. who focuses on global bond funds.

In addition, there is no hard-and-fast distinction between different categories of drugs; some drugs, such as beta-blockers, fall into both the restorative and performance-enhancing categories.

Typan blue dye (0.4%) was used for staining to differentiate between dead and viable cells because is a convenient, reliable, and inexpensive assay that makes faster distinction between dead and live cells [ 22].

What Parfit suggests is that, if the objection depends on a hard-and-fast metaphysical distinction between persons (i.e., on the non-identity of different persons), and if this distinction depends on the further fact of identity — a nonexistent fact if reductionism is true — then the distinction is nothing to take seriously in the first place.

These categories are not hard and fast, but the distinctions are productive ones, so let's take a look.