Sentence examples for superficial characteristic from inspiring English sources

Although darkness was the superficial characteristic of DeCarava's images, light was his instrument.

But, Riley demurs, believing that faith "is a superficial characteristic the way race [and] ethnicity are" doesn't make it so.

While noting differences in skin tone, he based his varieties upon the structures of the cranium, which supposedly gave his distinctions a stronger scientific foundation than the more superficial characteristic of color (Hannaford 1996, 206).

Needless to say, a whites-only dating service would be repugnant, trading on racism, on superficial characteristics over which people have no control.

Mr. O'Neal may not be the gregarious back-slapper that he is, Mr. Komansky said, but "superficial characteristics of a leader are less important than what that person is made of".

Those women who rely on superficial characteristics to create her brand identity are challenged in the future when maturity exceeds youth.

The resulting liquid is extruded through small holes in a device known as a spinnerette, emerging as fine jets of liquid that harden to form solid rods with all the superficial characteristics of a very long fibre, or filament.

In the end, his panoramic quasi-Brechtian epic is both child-like and childish, exploiting superficial characteristics of Irish, Jews and Asians in the wider cause of asserting that all new arrivals are resented by their immediate predecessors.

Furthermore, Charney (1984: 75) states that "in spite of training, readers' judgments are strongly influenced by salient, though superficial, characteristics of writing samples…one of these superficial characteristics is physical appearance".

Recycled ceramic aggregates content was established to obtain appropriate mechanical and superficial characteristics, besides maximizing re-utilization of recycled materials.

Holistic scores have also been shown to correlate with relatively superficial characteristics of writing, such as text length and handwriting style (Fulcher 1997; Markham 1976).