Sentence examples for this distinctive character from inspiring English sources

As the primary document of the movement, Proverbs bears a clear impress of this distinctive character, so that in many respects it presents a sharp contrast to the outlook and emphases of Israel's faith as attested in the Hebrew Scriptures generally.

Yet the distinctive character of this type of atomism was summed up quite clearly by Hobbes, with his injunction to "consider men as if but even now sprung out of the earth, and suddainly (like Mushromes) come to full maturity without all kind of engagement to each other" (1651, 8 1).

This may help to explain the distinctive character of his work.

Thus we find an important philosophical tradition according to which the distinctive character of aesthetic experience is to be found in distinctively "aesthetic" emotions.

Flowing through gently rolling lowlands, the distinctive character of the Thames is pastoral and undramatic.

"We wanted something that would increase the distinctive character," he says.

The loss of the distinctive character of New York neighbourhoods is hardly new.

During the succeeding century the pressure of Roman Catholic and bureaucratic rule gradually undermined the distinctive character of Transylvania.

The court of appeal has now embraced this decision and handed down perhaps the first judgment in English legal history with the distinctive character of a privacy law.

The plurality of souls provides a complex taxonomy accounting for and relating the distinctive character traits of plants, animals, and men.

Others stressed the distinctive character of Russia and Russianism, its independent and different destiny based upon its autocratic and orthodox past.