Sentence examples for a characteristic bit of from inspiring English sources
Mr. McCain began the meeting with a characteristic bit of self-deprecating humor.
In a characteristic bit of opportunism, he turned a chance encounter with the English actress Jane Birkin into one of Hermès's biggest successes.
Originally a characteristic bit of word-jumbling by Ringo Starr, the phrase had already been included by Lennon in "Sad Michael," a short piece in his first book, "In His Own Write".
As you may have heard elsewhere on the internet, Radiohead heralded their ninth studio LP A Moon Shaped Pool with a characteristic bit of techno-trickery: they deleted every tweet they'd ever made, deactivated their Facebook account, and slowly dimmed their website to printer-paper white.
A characteristic bit follows the logic of something to such an extreme that it becomes illogical.
In the aforesaid "language is my shtick," the sense of shtick is not the original "piece," nor the extended "comic routine"; rather, it is the sense absorbed into the English language of "characteristic bit of business" or, more generally, "specialty".
These cells recognise alien invaders, chop them up and then carry characteristic bits of them to the rest of the immune system so that the invader can be recognised and appropriate measures taken.
Species membership is a morally irrelevant characteristic, a bit of luck that is no more morally interesting than being born male or female, Malaysian or French.
The first component (q_C) of a generic state q is a characteristic vector of n bits representing the occurrence of the products in ({mathtt{AP}}_c), that is begin{aligned} q_C = b_1 b_nldots b_n end{aligned} (2 where begin{aligned} b_i = {left{ begin{array}{ll} 1 & quad text {if }; p_i in {mathtt{AP}}_c 0 & quad text {if }; p_i notin {mathtt{AP}}_c end{array}right.
"The most common characteristic is a little bit of eccentricity," said Gregory F. Russell, Trinity's new ringing master and steeple keeper and a systems engineer at I.B.M.
The electrically assisted rack-and-pinion steering suffers a bit of characteristic artificiality at low, on-road speeds, but comes into its own as the Renegade gathers pace.
