Sentence examples for formal feature from inspiring English sources

Temporal setting is an important formal feature of a book — at least, for this writer, it is.

Whenever we notice that an unexpected formal feature amplifies our experience of a poem in a novel way, we add to our understanding.

Otherwise we are asserting, without justification, a correlation between a formal feature the computer program just happened to uncover and a significance that has simply been declared, not argued for.

Firstly, it marks a formal feature of existing objects, namely their concrete character.

It explains nicely the presence/absence of a formal feature on the light verb.

Although some models (e.g. Backstrom et al. [86]) include social influence as a formal feature, none of them include homophily.

All cosmogonic accounts have certain formal features in common.

In Dravidian, gender is primarily determined by the meaning of the noun or pronoun and secondarily by certain formal features.

Rhythm is, therefore, not any one of these rational or formal features, nor is it composed solely of a combination of these factors.

Furthermore, it is impossible either to subsume all formal features of music and literature under the idea of a Gestalt or to demonstrate why, when so subsumed, the emotional effect and aesthetic value of form is made intelligible.

Canada also is a federal state, despite the fact that some of the formal features of ideal federalism are absent from its 1982 constitution: the provinces' powers, not the central government's, are enumerated.