Sentence examples for peculiar virtues from inspiring English sources
But different environmental media for the storage, transmission, and transformation of information have their own peculiar virtues.
Rather, it must learn to interface with the external media in ways that maximally exploit their peculiar virtues" (1997, p. 220).
Specific tactile textures are peculiar to every material by virtue of its manufacture or natural composition, but they may be altered to produce a variety of expressive qualities.
This is the idea that genes "code for" the amino acid sequence of protein molecules, in virtue of the peculiar features of the "transcription and translation" mechanisms found within cells.
Since spatial relations cannot proceed directly to consciousness, spatial localization is possible only if the non-spatial representations are accompanied by "a qualitative property of some kind which the impression acquires … in virtue of the peculiar nature of the place at which it comes into contact with the body" (Micro, I, p. 309).
Mr. Gray is able to turn a mundane occurrence into a noteworthy incident without turning up the volume or engaging in pedantry but simply by virtue of his skewed and peculiar perspective.
Once they are distinguished from related but distinct concepts peculiar to modern philosophy, various objections to virtue ethics can be better assessed.
Pulp Fiction has most of the virtues of its genre except that peculiar passion that invariably lies behind the best of them.
It also seemed peculiar that a private-equity firm, which championed the virtues of private ownership, would elect to go public.
In comparison to the other papers on Fleet Street, however, the Guardian's eccentric virtues often seemed to be outweighed by its peculiar idiosyncrasies: the absence of horse racing, high-handed moral posturing and woolly leaders.
On the climate of the time, Nettlau remarked: "The air was saturated with accepted nations, conventional opinions and the peculiar illusions which people entertained concerning small nationalities and the virtues and defects of certain races.
