The phrase "a characteristic emphasis" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific focus or highlight that is typical or distinctive of a subject or context.
Example: "The author's writing style features a characteristic emphasis on emotional depth, which resonates with readers."
Alternatives: "a distinctive focus" or "a notable stress".
All of these forces combined to produce a crop of theoretical approaches that soon developed into a fairly fixed orthodoxy with its characteristic emphasis on "crash" programs of investment in both material and human capital, on domestic industrialization, and on government economic planning as the standard ingredients of development policy.
The brief discussion here is designed to highlight the characteristic emphasis of each rather than to define clear distinctions.
In Baumgarten's theory, with its characteristic emphasis on the importance of feeling, much attention was concentrated on the creative act.
Now directed by former dancer Paul Lightfoot, the company delivered its characteristic emphasis on soulful, downbeat expression at its usual stratospheric level of execution.
Its main characteristics—an emphasis on a direct relationship with Jesus and a strong belief among members of its various denominations that they alone have arrived at the correct reading of the New Testament are still common to Protestantism today.
The characteristic emphases on rhetoric and philology, which gave the humanistic movement vitality and made it available to countless students of moderate intellectual gifts, also betokened its impermanence.
Each period saw the development of a special orientation and emphasis, a characteristic style of theatre.
Instead, the repetition of "on many sides", a characteristic Trump verbal tic used for emphasis.
And yet, in an emphasis characteristic of Kadare's wit, the memory of the past is regularly burlesqued, too: I had heard that the First Crusade had passed this way a thousand years before.
