Literary notes about Feature (AI summary)
The word “feature” is employed in literature to denote that which is distinctive or essential, whether pertaining to character, setting, or abstract concepts. It can describe a striking quality or novel element that draws the reader’s attention, as when a detective story emphasizes a surprisingly innovative aspect [1]. In character sketches, the term highlights unique physical traits or habitual expressions, capturing everything from the curve of a face to the nature of one’s expression [2, 3]. In more analytical or theoretical contexts, “feature” connotes a fundamental component of an argument or system—be it an economic proposition or a psychological trait [4, 5, 6]—while in descriptions of art and architecture, it serves to demarcate those structural or aesthetic aspects that define a style or environment [7, 8].
- Anything so startling, new, and distinctive as the leading feature of this romance does not often appear in works of fiction....
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - But the chief natural pleasing feature was mainly centred in the curve of his eyebrows.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao - Her eyes, her eyes were perhaps her best feature; they were such a strange uncommon colour—greeny blue with little gold points in them.
— from Bliss, and other stories by Katherine Mansfield - His system of "non-competing groups" is a feature of his value theory, which is a noteworthy contribution to economic thought.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Relation to the conscious self is thus the permanent and universal feature which every state of consciousness as such must exhibit."
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - The morbid feature in Rousseau is the one which happens to have been most admired and imitated.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - The Greek colonnade was thus an exterior feature, surrounding 55 the solid cella-wall instead of being enclosed by it as in Egypt.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The pointed arch, so commonly regarded as the most characteristic feature of the Gothic styles, was merely an incidental feature of their development.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
