Sentence examples for surprising trait from inspiring English sources

Someone less kind (or more rigorous) might call it lazy -- a surprising trait in an obviously industrious man.

Despite these obstacles, Minow remains fundamentally optimistic — a surprising trait for someone who has devoted so much of her working life to arguing with executives and government officials.

According to new research published in Biology Letters, those 11,000 years of farming have left goats with a surprising trait: They look to humans for help.

His police characters are imperfect, but their most surprising trait remains empathy — for victims as well as for the perps.

That's not a surprising trait in a high-level politician -- but if wealth were a political virtue, it's a trait we wouldn't expect to find in Mitt Romney.

Later in the week, I'll explore some of the other surprising traits that "Shoah" shares with works of Lanzmann's famed cinematic contemporaries.

In some cases abstract theoretical laws explain the emergence of some apparently surprising traits, without the need to invoke new assumptions.

Beyond the obvious formal similarities and practical differences, both complexes share a few surprising traits, and are marked by at least one glaring divergence.

For the last six years since the discovery, a lively debate has persisted over the remains due to their many surprising traits.

In a world where manual labour is declining and technology is transforming the workplace, it is hardly surprising that traits associated with violent aggression are becoming increasingly redundant.

Thus, although the high heritabilities necessary for this model to work (h = 0.5 or 0.8) would be surprising for traits closely tied to fitness in a stable natural environment, they are not out of the question.