He would hang around the goal mouth, wait for the ball and, with a calmness that is the hardest trait to possess, finish off what others created.
RUSSIANS are famously hard drinkers a trait epitomised by former president Boris Yeltsin.
To excel at any sport demands dedication, discipline and hard work, traits that northern Europeans claim are absent in a country where they say "now" means "later" and mañana means "never" or, at the very least, "not now".
If Nim could be raised more or less as a human child, and could master human communication, that would challenge the Chomskyan idea of language as a special, hard-wired trait fundamentally separating us from other animals.
Soft biometric traits such as skin color, tattoos, shoe size, height, and weight have been regularly used for forensic investigation, especially when hard biometric traits, e.g., faces and fingerprints are not available.
Those critical of nativism have labeled nativism as antidevelopmental in nature (Haith 1998), and claimed that conclusions that the mind consists of hard-wired traits that unfold through maturation on a fixed pattern conflict with the very idea of learning and flexibility (Quartz and Sejnowski 1997; Thelen and Smith 1994; Bates et alia 1995; Karmiloff-Smith 1994).
tests measure some hard and identifiable trait that predicts the quality of our thinking; and, second, that this trait is stable — that is, it is determined by our genes and largely impervious to environmental influences.
"Shane said to him, 'My name is Sugar Shane.' Ray's wife said, 'If you want to be great, you've got to work hard.' " That trait must be in the genes.
The ability to hit the ball hard is a trait that lends well to a hitter's performing at a high level.
Finally, as the tale unfolds, clues mount that he might be a terrorist and the American might be a spy who has come to kill him, although this remains ambiguous — a literary trait hard to capture on film.
