Sentence examples for English traits from inspiring English sources
In English Traits he gave a character analysis of a people from which he himself stemmed.
In 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson published "English Traits," which includes a strange and suggestive chapter called "Race".
Ackroyd believes the same: that certain fundamental English traits — geniality, irony, a loathing of pretension — have their origins in Chaucer.
Parker sees Housman's habit of plainness and terseness as manifestations of English traits that amount to a sort of polite national understatement: modesty, restraint, stiff-upper-lipness.
But in promoting neighbourliness, fair play and mutual respect we must ensure we do not claim them to be exclusively English traits.
"Doing that is quite subversive, and that is quite an English trait," she said.
One reason for this is the English trait of self-effacement.
It turns out to be something of an English trait, the swing from humiliation to triumph, or vice-versa.
This belief in individual rights -- and activities -- rather than in organized group endeavors is, like the distrust of abstract thought, one English trait that seems to have persisted.
And liking it is the worst possible English trait, up there with colonialism and the class system and thinking dentistry is bad.
