hall-marks

At the hotel Baby Warren made a quick examination of him, and failing to find any of the hall-marks she respected, the subtler virtues or courtesies by which the privileged classes recognized one another, treated him thereafter with her second manner.

Tender is the Night 2003

That is one of the hall-marks of genius — the thing which sharply differentiates genius from talent.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Before re-development, the station-building bore all the hall-marks of its origin in the early years of National party rule:

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Before re-development, the station-building bore all the hall-marks of its origin in the early years of National party rule: a job-creation project for the benefit of the minority; and a physical construction that embodied grand apartheid in the segregation of white and black commuters into different travel classes with separate and unequal facilities.

PRESIDENT MANDELA'S SPEECH - OPENING OF THE REDEVELOPED PARK STATION 1997

One of the hall-marks of the democracy which South Africans are creating is the spirit of partnership which permeates our society.

OPENING ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 1995

One of the hall-marks of the democracy which South Africans are creating is the spirit of partnership which permeates our society.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

The context of this violence is reflected as an endemic "culture" of our society and bears the hall-marks of apartheids legacy.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

Ceremonial and insignia, properly understood and properly applied, are surely the hall-marks of a really human and civilized community, society and country.

Ceremonial and Insignia—Some Considerations 1975

The hall-marks of this emerging metropolis are a movement of jobs and people from the older city to the periphery, a relative decline in the importance of the central business area, and a far greater commitment to home-and-car ownership.

Metropolitan Toronto—Planners Dilemma 1968

The Chief Pilot was now at work, with all the virtuoso's skill of his rank and grade; one of the hall-marks of which is to make difficult tasks look easy.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950