Sentence examples for fixed character from inspiring English sources

The human subject has a fixed character.

Many who use the term 'evil' do not mean to imply that evildoers are possessed, inhuman, incorrigible, or that they have fixed character traits.

For instance, on some conceptions of evil, evildoers are possessed, inhuman, incorrigible, or have fixed character traits (See Cole 2006, 1 21; Russell 2006 and 2010; Haybron 2002a and 2002b).

Emmanuel Levinas claims that "Forgiveness acts upon the past, somehow repeats the event, purifying it," a notion similar to Hannah Arendt's view that forgiveness alters the ethical significance of a wrongdoer's past by keeping it from having a permanent or fixed character (Guenther, 2006).

In a pairwise step addition, PAA defines populations based on the presence of at least one diagnostic (fixed) character in one population; otherwise, they are merged and then compared to another population.

The implied alignment was used for statistical tests of sequence variation and other analyses requiring fixed character matrices with equal length character strings (i.e. multiple alignments).

But cartoon adventures, which project fixed characters through varied situations, make better cinema than drama: who'd want to see Asterix or Superman staged?

Its form is extraordinary, a complex astrological charting that allows for the luminaries (traditionally, the sun and moon) to be fixed characters around whom 12 other characters orbit, in long chapters that wane to short chapters as the moon disappears.

It's only too bad that, for want of such a translation, Virginia Woolf never learned that the desire she expressed in her 1919 essay "Modern Fiction" for a more impressionistic and less narrowly empirical modern novel, a novel of floating sensibility rather than fixed characters, had been, to such a remarkable degree, anticipated a dozen years earlier by a Swiss writer living in Berlin.

These tools will allow the search for more difficult to study root traits that are linked to adaptability, rather than fixed characters for a given environment.

To them, Okonofua advises: "Try not to think of yourself as a fixed character in the same way that you should try not to think of your students as fixed characters.