Sentence examples for hypothetical characters from inspiring English sources

In this season of weekend visits and house gifts, Mr. Doonan joined this reporter to shop for objects that would delight the hypothetical characters described in his book, published in April by Simon & Schuster.

I have garnished both trees with two hypothetical characters that are synapomorphies shared by humans and chimps, but not gorillas.

Vignettes, "short stories about hypothetical characters in specified circumstances" (Finch, 1987, p. 105), were pioneered in the 1960s as a tool to study attitudes (Goldberg, 1968; Nosanchuk, 1972).

The approach is based on the concept of "personas", a user centered design methodology that illustrates practical needs by portraying realistic personal profiles of hypothetical characters.

Vignettes have been used in research contexts for over 25 years [ 31] and usually take the form of short stories about hypothetical characters in specified circumstances, to whose situation the interviewee is invited to respond.

This point about the hypothetical character of a priori sciences has not always been appreciated.

Since these predictions have hypothetical character and are much more than their predictability, Jouvenel suggests to speak of conjectures, which can be understood as a "proposition" [10].

It is important to note, however, that this criterion for success only holds if participants understand the hypothetical character of results and the illusion of predictability and controllability is relatively low.

That's what Larry's hypothetical character in our book, William P. Gigolo, exemplifies.

The Ingenuity database contains literature based manually curated gene ontology data, which decreases the hypothetical character of detected interactions and the validity of the interactions can be re-assessed from literature.

Anchoring vignettes are brief texts describing a hypothetical character who exemplifies a certain fixed level of the trait of interest.