definitions

As I went spelunking through the research literature, I found a huge variation in definitions.

Even the actors wrestled with finding a place for Noah and Alison that lived outside rigid definitions of good and bad.

How about what we might consider softer definitions of progress?

Let the music come in without any pre-set definitions of what jazz has to be, of what music has to be.

Early definitions of rape seem to have been a lot about process of elimination.

The whole genius of an author consists in giving accurate definitions and in painting well.

And third, the essay may open with definitions of the terms that will be used in the discussion.

Illustrations of definitions, propositions, transitions, and exemplifications are to be found everywhere.

All definitions of an ultimate principle are vain, since everybody understands what is meant by it.

This faith, so sublime and elevated, needs no confirmation, and is not made more intelligent by any definitions.