What makes people logicians is not their concern with "and", "or", and "not", but their concern with validity, consequence, consistency, and proof, and the distinctive methods they bring to their investigations.
This study presents a distinctive method for fabricating large-area Ni-silicide/Si heterostructured nanowire arrays by combining nanosphere lithography, metal-induced catalytic etching, glancing angle deposition, and solid state reaction.
(This made me think of Wes Montgomery, who developed a distinctive method of playing electric guitar with his thumb, rather than a pick, because he needed a softer sound — his wife was sleeping in the next room).
With Rossellini, however, there was always a distinctive method underlying any apparent madness.
No one disputes that, in a good Saracens side with a distinctive method, Ashton's instincts as a support runner are unusually sharp.
Edsall's distinctive method combines his own reporting with rigorous use of data from across the social sciences, including psychology and anthropology.
Using his distinctive method in which he lifts the putter ever so slightly before taking his backstroke, Pooley showed the touch that made him one of the best putters on the PGA Tour in the 1980's.
He had his own, distinctive method, standing the ball upright and taking only a token run-up, and such was the range and accuracy of his goal-kicking that he had offers from American football.
Collingwood is the author of one of the most important treatises in meta-philosophy written in the first half of the twentieth century, An Essay on Philosophical Method (1933), which is a sustained attempt to explain why philosophy is an autonomous discipline with a distinctive method and subject matter that differ from those of the natural and the exact sciences.
