It is an abiding trait of Webber's that he seems untroubled even as he may be humbled, perhaps imprisoned.
It was Nozick who suggested a "taxonomy of character," by which he meant, as Seligman put it, a list of "those abiding moral traits that everyone values".
Examining past New York Times coverage of mass shootings reveals some shared tendencies of the gunmen, including the fact that they are most commonly white, but such traits also describe thousands of law-abiding Americans who don't become murderous.
To Mr. Lee, one of the distinguishing traits of "The Royle Family" is the abiding affection that underlies the teasing and taunting, a warmth that is counter to the brittleness and cynicism that are mainstays of British humor.
Even so, an abiding culture of tolerance and civility ranks high among this city's traits, and the applause from the audience the other night was long and heartfelt.
"We ask of you an impossible combination of traits: ironclad scruples and a willingness to violate them; "An abiding love for your country and a willingness to consort with individuals who are working actively to destroy it; "The instincts and intuition of experts, and the blank records and true freshness of ingénues.
I prefer to think it was the latter: not only did Saki have an abiding love for animals, but his mischievousness and capability for sudden viciousness are traits that seem, at least to my limited zoological knowledge, eminently monkey-like.
Subjective interest is occurring either as an individual trait in terms of a stabilised construct or as a situation-specific state, which results from an abiding individual value that is allocated to certain issues or circumstances (Hidi 2000, pp 313).
In heavenly love abiding.
Poverty is an abiding theme.
