arbitrary standard

Example Sentences

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His hair was good because it was his hair; it was a Black man’s hair, and its worth didn’t rest on some arbitrary standard dictated by people who didn’t value him.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2022

It was as if the landscape itself had dysmorphia, altering its physical appearance to fit an arbitrary standard that undermined its primary function.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

Fashion in this context was not about looking au courant or attractive by some arbitrary standard.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019

A day, therefore, is not and cannot be some arbitrary standard.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2015

This, of course, must be in some measure an arbitrary standard, to be settled as much by experiment and example as by reasoning.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.