The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. From LearnThat.org. [Aikin Barbauld (1743-1825).]
Heard my friend's characteristic laugh. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Treating people differently based on a certain characteristic is called discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Wake Me From This Nightmare] Reference
This characteristic is the desire for homogeneousness. From Wordnik.com. [The American Revolution. The Border Slave States] Reference
The soul of this characteristic is absence of selfishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Uniter and Liberator of America] Reference
So finding out that L's nemesis shares this characteristic is a bit annoying. From Wordnik.com. [I did miss Iron Chef: A review of Death Note: L, Change the WorLd | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
Hall, far from showing that fury which he described as his characteristic, denied the charge with meekness. From Wordnik.com. [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference
That is a phrase characteristic of the whole book. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917] Reference
The bears speak in short, characteristic sentences. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
And The Devil's Kitchen replies in characteristic style. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
Another outstanding characteristic is his sense of humour. From Wordnik.com. [Free Enterprise in Canada] Reference
However, his most notable characteristic is his necrophilia. From Wordnik.com. [Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dali] Reference
His defining characteristic is that he is a man out of time. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Johnston to Direct Captain America | /Film] Reference
Its characteristic is the endless use of ready-made metaphors. From Wordnik.com. [As I Please] Reference
The same characteristic is true of his personal relationships. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotism in Peacetime] Reference
That distinguishing characteristic is a good base for character. From Wordnik.com. [Collecting characters] Reference
It will be seen that they all have a certain characteristic in common. From Wordnik.com. [Rudyard Kipling] Reference
In a recession, most important thing with that characteristic is money. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
This Clinton characteristic is why her health care plan failed in the 90ies. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton camp says Tuesday results 'represent progress'] Reference
I would be lying if I said this characteristic is endemic to the “left”. From Wordnik.com. [2008 March 08 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
Your defining characteristic is your internal and inflexible system of morals. From Wordnik.com. [Hubris, thy name is Gonzo!] Reference
But the second and perhaps more powerful characteristic is that of abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [Google Aims to Woo the Enterprise With Its Cloud] Reference
A typical U.S. characteristic is also the belief in the positive power of progress. From Wordnik.com. [Translantic Relations and Security Policy: Common Interests, Values and History] Reference
We did not compete in characteristic Falcon tradition, which is very disappointing. From Wordnik.com. [NCAA Football - Air Force vs. Brigham Young] Reference
Sadly, the State's most prominent characteristic is the Not Leaving Folks Alone bit. From Wordnik.com. [Whitsuntide!] Reference
Another outstanding characteristic is the general courtesy one meets with everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Conditions in Great Britain and America] Reference
To me, the main characteristic of Espinosa is that he is on the surface an ordinary man. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking with Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, author of A Window in Copacabana, the most recent book in the acclaimed Inspector Espinosa series] Reference
C5 cells show features that have recently become known as characteristic of rat XEN cells. From Wordnik.com. [Elites TV] Reference
I believe that this Latin characteristic can produce both positive and negative consequences. From Wordnik.com. [Enjoying Life] Reference
They have certain characteristic facial expressions and mannerisms that appear in all their movies. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
If ever a man communicated those vibrations he speaks of as characteristic of Milton, it was Emerson. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]
Bush's basic characteristic is not steadfastness, as the convention attempted to argue, but rashness. From Wordnik.com. [Time to let him go...] Reference
His leading characteristic is realizing, determined energy; this admirably adapted him for opposing the. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
How like herself she looked, handsome and stately, in characteristic elegance of attire and manner both. From Wordnik.com. [Melbourne House] Reference
Most characteristic is this familiarity between the greatest man then in the world and his pauper subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Another English characteristic is the love of fair play, in business deals, in sport and in. every day fife. From Wordnik.com. [Conditions in Great Britain and America] Reference
The last characteristic is traced by Mr. Hotten, in the preface to "Artemus Ward," to a very probable origin. From Wordnik.com. [Current Literature] Reference
The very first characteristic is that, by definition, you get a total subjectivity because nothing is absolute. From Wordnik.com. [The Aspen Ideas Festival] Reference
One of the things that has often been characteristic is that intellectualism is conceded to the side of atheism. From Wordnik.com. [Gilead's Balm] Reference
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