As a pundit and in his post-match briefings his stock in trade has been a withering sarcasm that will be a familiar trait to most of us who were brought up in Yorkshire.
That may seem like a familiar trait for many South American countries, but La Blanquirroja took it to another level: they simply did not care who the opposition was.
Circulating mtDNA increases with age, which is associated with AD and PD, and the degree of increase is a familiar trait (Pinti et al., 2014).
Namelessness has become an increasingly familiar trait in the fiction of exile, in which immigrants acquire new titles to suit new lives the African main character of Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names" (2014) takes an assumed identity when he comes to America, and we never learn his birth name or simply lose their names in transit, like misplaced luggage.
Namelessness has become an increasingly familiar trait in the fiction of exile, in which immigrants acquire new titles to suit new lives — the African main character of Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names" (2014) takes an assumed identity when he comes to America, and we never learn his birth name — or simply lose their names in transit, like misplaced luggage.
This kind of noncommittal plotting is an all too familiar trait of contemporary short films, which is maybe why so many viewers find them unappealing, even as they bemoan the increasingly mammoth runtimes of the movies vying for best picture.
He may dream this - being a dreamer is another familiar trait of the characters in Russian novels - but he knows that for many readers his task is hopeless, and says so early on, with an edge of both despair and frustration: "Mathematical knowledge is unlike any other knowledge," he writes in his Preface.
But those who love Cheever's fiction will recognize here a familiar, defining trait: he was forever emerging from two dimensions into three, from the rectangle of the page into the cubic complexities of actual life.
Not only did Mr. Bloomberg mostly avoid two favorite topics, Wall Street and national politics, he also tried to be a bit self-deprecating — hardly a familiar character trait — by opening with a light-hearted video of the Staten Island groundhog that bit his finger in 2009.
Samsung's next Chromebook has broken cover, courtesy of pro device leaker @evleaks, and the Chrome OS-powered notebook has a familiar design trait that's becoming a Samsung trademark: faux leather.
But the new version, even at its clunkiest, could not be more uncompromising in its paranoid portrayal of a political cartel with certain familiar traits that will stop at nothing, including the exploitation and even the fomenting of terrorism, to hold on to power for its corporate backers.
