Sentence examples for of a general sort from inspiring English sources

But, while visual agnosia of a general sort was recognized in the eighteen-nineties, there was little notion that there could be agnosia for particular visual categories, such as faces or places, until 1947, when Joachim Bodamer, a German neurologist, described three patients who were unable to recognize faces but had no other difficulties with recognition.

The family room is dark and, save for a general sort of decaying of its furniture and walls, has not changed much in the twenty years we've lived here.

The variety of cargo molecules and the need to reach diverse destinations has complicated the assignment of a general sorting mechanism from the TGN.

"If anybody in the world can do something about [the predators], it would be the New Zealanders, because of our experience, because of our confidence, and because we have a general sort of 'We can do it' view of the world," King said.

In every contest, lots of them come up with a general sort of funny idea.

Such jigsaw-puzzle designs resist easy decipherment while implying a general sort of psychic trauma: here, bits of Socialist Realism; there, figures out of Courbet (or is it Delacroix?), all of it suggesting something about a post-cold-war world, but shruggingly.

But it does know, in a general sort of way, that a certain amount of unpleasantness lies ahead.To judge by what they say, the incoming Republicans see themselves less as Goths than as cleansers of the Augean stables.

But they can be matched with a general sort of animal, and thus act as an indicator of the fate of that group, even when there are no bones to tell the story.Five of the ichnotaxa disappear before the end of the Triassic, and four march confidently across the boundary into the Jurassic.

He even confessed to his crimes, in a general sort of way.

There's only one thing you can say for the German war--the men who fought and won it knew, in a general sort of way, what it was all about.

What we got instead were devices that faintly shook in a general sort of way whenever you tapped their software keys, but a new patent secured by Apple today (and spotted by AppleInsider) looks to improve on those crude designs.