But the queasy feeling takes over once parents start eradicating character traits such as homosexuality, or actively selecting good genes athleticism, tallness, a high IQ.Of course, parents have always tried to determine their children's genes.
It occurs in 1 in 500 1,000 live male births, and individuals with the anomaly are often characterized by tallness and severe acne and sometimes by skeletal malformations and mental deficiency.
This attitude casts misogyny as a comparative concept, like tallness, which is only newsworthy in its extreme incarnations.
Unless there were substances in this sense, no qualities could be real: the tallness of the tree would not exist unless the tree existed.
Child's tallness was crucial to Streep as she developed the character.
I thought his tallness had to do with the brocades he wore, with the music, the candles, and the gold crosses that preceded him when he walked down the aisle; that it rendered him closer to God than those of ordinary height and therefore closer to enchantment.
As if a touch of the Brazilian brush weren't distinguishing enough, Wharton gives olive-skinned Conchita tallness and red hair.
Even so, the more glamorous presence of Mr. Bonelli and the intelligent dignity of Ms. Yanowsky's interpretation made theirs the more arresting performance, even though her tallness on point makes their partnership unconventional.
He knew what he wanted: tallness (70 to 80 feet), fullness (seven and a half tons or so) and shapeliness (triangular branches, evenly spaced).
In 18th-century France, the virtues of tallness, grandeur, courtesy, fluent adagio control and vaulting allegro ease became established as the noble ideal of ballet; in 19th-century Russia they were developed; in him they are reborn to a phenomenal degree.
(So is tallness, but you can scarcely control that).
