Sentence examples for for sameness from inspiring English sources

Though the new zoning was promoted in the name of diversity, it actually reflected a desire for sameness.

Fourteen years old and the only American in my huge Northern Irish grammar school, I, like Ai, "longed for anonymity, for sameness.

A central theme of Deleuze's work during this period was what he called the "Eleatic-Platonic bias" of Western metaphysics—i.e., the preference, which originated with the pre-Socratic school of Eleaticism and the subsequent philosophy of Plato, for unity over multiplicity ("the one" over "the many") and for sameness over difference.

Equality is not a synonym for sameness.

As a Platonist, he was interested less in substance as the hypokeimenon, which accounts for difference, than in its other sense of ousia, which accounts for sameness.

This includes narrative, or biographical, and practical identity, and is less about criteria for sameness over time and more about the essential features of one's self- (or social) conception.

The argument in favor of Augusta inviting a female can't rest on enforcing some lame idea of sameness for the good of all.

Even this last is surprising; one would think that for Aquinas "sameness in thing" just is identity, and that "sameness in concept" would mean that we apply the same concept to some apparent things (whether or not they are in fact one or many).

In contrast, the discourse of standardization strives for homogeneity, sameness, and a limited range of possibilities and conveys that there is a single way to be a competent, professional physician'.

For so long, red carpets were a sea of sameness.

Prone to repetitive, sometimes self-destructive behaviors and driven by "a powerful desire for aloneness and sameness," as Dr. Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins put it in a now classic 1943 paper, they often spent their lives in institutions.