Sentence examples for sense of definiteness from inspiring English sources

The second item in the pairs, 'bathroom and the kitchen' and 'sofa and teevee' is given tonic prominence and a falling tone, indicating a sense of definiteness and completion, with a high falling tone 1 on the word "teevee", which conveys a sense of alarm.

Point-wise monotonicity (in parameters) for various one-parameter families of scalar means such as power difference means, binomial means and Stolarsky means is well known, but norm comparison for corresponding operator means requires monotonicity in the sense of positive definiteness.

Names are often (Geurts 1997, Anderson 2006) claimed to be syntactically "definite," since they can occur with markers of definiteness, such as the definite article in English.

Here, for the sake of definiteness, we use the background from the year 2008.

Investigating articles as expressions of definiteness in L2 English of Slavic speakers.

For the sake of definiteness, sensor operation conditions in a helicopter rotor blade are considered.

You may say that this kind of definiteness is just a verbal trick, or proceeds merely from a childish desire to shock.

For purposes of definiteness, we will use the term 'event' to refer to the relata of singular causation, and 'factor' to refer to the relata of general causation.

Also, we avoid the use of definiteness assumptions on the thermoelastic coefficients.

For the sake of definiteness, we restrict our consideration to (a>0).

For the sake of definiteness we assume that the language of arithmetic has exactly ¬, ∧ and ∨ as connectives and ∀ and ∃ as quantifiers.