In certain milieus in the U.S. today, "Jewish" primarily defines a genre of humor.
As the last decades of the 20th century showed, the defense of American security is no longer primarily defined by sending military forces into combat.
"Quality," primarily defined as formal skill, is back in vogue, part and parcel of a conservative, some would say retrogressive, painting and drawing revival.
Harley loves her children, who are now grown, but is primarily defined not by motherhood but by her idiosyncratic creative vision.
In contemporary literature and music, the ballad is primarily defined by its commitment to nostalgia, community histories, and romantic love.
This encouraged her to go off in pursuit of the journalistic form that has primarily defined her career, the "get," in which Walters somehow persuades an elusive news celebrity to accept an on-camera visit from her.
The Sunderland quartet are still primarily defined by their only real hit, the 2004 cover of Hounds of Love, but they are finally showing signs of entering a new era.
For the purposes of this article, plastics are primarily defined not on the basis of their chemical composition but on the basis of their engineering behaviour.
But whereas Volcker's career was primarily defined by the need to manage the crises produced by the inflationary pressures of the Keynesian era – in which the concern to defend the dollar as the key currency of global capitalism stood paramount – Geithner's career was defined by the crises produced by the volatility of global finance in the neoliberal era.
The forecasts of a decade or more of football misery at Penn State may be overstating the case in a college sports culture that is primarily defined by continuous change.
