The P. acanthamoebae cluster is unusual by virtue of its presence in a representative of the Chlamydiae.
Nowhere else except the Great Salt Lake can one find so long and smooth an expanse of salt crust pavement, unusual here by virtue of its uniform thickness.
The simplicity, vulnerability, directness, and immediacy of such films as "Cyrus" — an imperfect work, as I wrote yesterday, but one with unusual and exhilarating virtues as well — comes off to them like an absence of craft.
This unusual process has the virtue of putting senators on the record for each major proposal, but could weaken a measure as much as strengthen it.
I remember reading a passage from bell hooks once, the kind that circulates on Facebook because it sounds slightly unusual in its predictable virtue.
Similarly, molecules which display unusual energetic properties by virtue of their overall shape, such as molecular Möbius strips and trefoil knots, are an active research area for many novel applications, and in many cases mimic the extraordinary properties of biomolecular machinery such as active sites within protein complexes [29, 30].
I tag it that way because the picture, which has many virtues, including unusual charm, is nevertheless drastically limited by its ironclad, old-Hollywood construction.
Made with a fine brush and black or brown ink, the large, hypnotically complex drawings in this show are all related by virtue of their unusual perspectives.
But Mr. Obama, by virtue of his unusual background as a biracial child reared by loving, though not unprejudiced, white caregivers, is acutely aware that the crude, dominating racism of the past simply morphed into a subtler cultural racism of the private sphere — significantly altered though hardly less damaging.
