Distinguishes

Examples

• The deepest revolt implied in the term syndicalism is against the impersonal, driven quality of modern industry--against the destruction of that pride which alone distinguishes work from slavery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They had not then learned, as I am told, to haggle for bargains with the pertinacity which now distinguishes them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I know nobody who distinguishes characters better. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Remains of the same sort of art that distinguishes Cnossos and Mycen? are to be found scattered over Asia Minor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The employment of a high-pitched musical note in the telephone is also an advantage because its extreme regularity distinguishes it from the marked irregularity of the stray waves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is this conjunction, which chiefly distinguishes these affections from pride and humility. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In all human action not that which is common to man and the animals is the characteristic element, but that which distinguishes him from them. Plato. The Republic.
• Miss Toady explained presently, with that simplicity which distinguishes all her conduct. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We naturally name his vocation from that one of the callings which distinguishes him, rather than from those which he has in common with all others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• History distinguishes two chief groups of Roman emperors who were great administrators. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The reason is obvious, why such complex ideas cannot receive any new idea, without changing the name, which distinguishes the mode. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Why, because he distinguishes the face of a friend and of an enemy only by the criterion of knowing and not knowing. Plato. The Republic.

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