sui generis

How To Use sui generis In A Sentence

• The Dream of Perpetual Motion is plangent, tender and sui generis: a steampunk The Tempest with the grim and rippling beauty of a fairy tale. The Dream of Perpetual Motion: Summary and book reviews of The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer.
• Peter Cooper, the great philanthropist and greenbacker, it might have been expected that Mr. Hewitt would have been somewhat a copyist of Mr. Cooper's ideas on finance and philanthropy, but Mr. Hewitt is sui generis. Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
• It is, as they say in Latin, sui generis -- a thing unto itself: Undefined
• And being, as it must clearly be, an experience _sui generis_, it is obviously not derived from a mere reproduction of life; for life cannot be reproduced excepting in life itself, whereas art claims no more than to be an imitation, or an envisagement, of nature, and its life is its own. Personality in Literature
• All three are richer than Korea but all are, in different ways, exceptions: Singapore and Hong Kong are city states, while Taiwan's disputed sovereignty makes it sui generis.
• It seems unauthentic and derivative to take the sui generis Prius and bottle it as an entry-luxury car. At Least It's a Lexus
• a history book sui generis
• The tendency of novel theory to define the novel as a genre that is sui generis does lead to certain impasses and quandaries, whether in the theory of the novel as such or of a subgenre like the Bildungsroman.
• Thus some theorists, e.g. Emile Durkheim (Durkheim 1964) are held to conceive of structure as sui generis in relation to individual agency; and indeed, at least in the case of structuralists such as Althusser Social Institutions
• But when three different countries stumble, the claim of sui generis does too.