Sentence examples for selective illustrations from inspiring English sources

But whereas Mr. Gladwell's 2008 book, "Outliers," reads like a parody of his own formula, devolving into an unconvincing mash-up of gauzy hypotheses and highly selective illustrations, Mr. Foer writes in these pages with fresh enthusiasm.

But the supposed trajectory of societies from ignorant superstition to enlightened rationalism owes a good deal more to selective illustration than one would suspect from reading Toland and Hume.

A brief inspection of our own recent publications suggests, reassuringly, that we shall be protected from much revision by the low resolution of our tree and selective illustration of its branches.

In other cases the authors use selective anecdotes or redacted illustrations to try to make their points.

This representation is designed to be a biologically intuitive illustration of selective or shared pathway clusters.

Figure 1 Schematic illustration of selective growth process of ZnO nanorod arrays: a thin layer of resist polymer (PMMA) spun over cover glass substrate; b pattern transfer by electron-beam lithography; c growth of aligned ZnO nanorod arrays in solution, and d lift-off resist material and residue from the substrate.

A strategic retreat on the matter of employing estimation in the Census is thus one illustration of a selective approach the Obama administration has taken to many issues.

I typed everything on a IBM selective typewriter, gluing in hand-colored illustrations.

Like any technical illustration, these drawings contain selective abstractions, simplifications, and emphasis.

The printed monolithic structures have been used as metal-free catalysts for the selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol, as an illustration.

I'm not giving that lecture here, but as a brief illustration, there is a drug called tianeptine - a selective serotonin reuptake enhancer, not an inhibitor - and yet research shows this drug is a pretty effective treatment for depression too.