The phrase "a striking characteristic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a notable or distinctive feature of a person, object, or situation that stands out in some way.
Example: "One striking characteristic of the painting is its vibrant use of color, which draws the viewer's attention immediately."
Alternatives: "a notable feature" or "a distinctive trait".
Well-intentioned woolliness of the sort that brings to mind Dickens's Mrs Jellyby was a striking characteristic of the era.
He is rapidly losing all his mental elasticity and all that impetuous vigor of disposition which was such a striking characteristic of him only a short time ago.
The struggle against Frederick II brings to light a striking characteristic of Innocent's pontificate and of the period as a whole.
A striking characteristic of these photoreceptors is their different modes of signaling in different organisms, including interaction with other membrane proteins, interaction with cytoplasmic transducers and light-controlled Ca2+ channel activity.
But interviews with former shareholders and analysts as well as years of financial filings reveal a striking characteristic of his business record: Even when his endeavors failed and other people lost money, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee found a way to make money for himself, to market his Trump-branded products and to pay for his expensive lifestyle.
Leon Kirchner has composed two string quartets, a violin sonata, and a piano trio; unmetrical rhythm is a striking characteristic of his style, along with a variety of harmonies ranging from purely diatonic to atonal, and warm expressiveness is usually present.
A first striking characteristic of the ctenophore musculature is the diversity of muscle cell types and the complexity of their spatial arrangement (see Figure 8), as exemplified by our TEM observations combined with expression analyses of the MHCIIb1 gene and phalloidin staining.
"His family," Mr. Meyers writes of the young Orwell (whose name, until he changed it in his early 30's, was Eric Blair), "inspired his most striking characteristic: a deep sense of guilt that pervaded his personality and his writing.
Her most striking characteristic was a lot of very soft singing, gently nudging the intensity of each note, more a coo than a genuine piano.
Herman (1988 p. 702) argued that from a diagnostic standpoint 'the most striking characteristic of sex offenders… is their apparent normality'.
Is a calm purity the most striking characteristic of the feminine sensibility, as least in Kaplan's view of it?
