Sentence examples for are as characteristic from inspiring English sources

They are as characteristic of Ishmael as his puzzling inner knowledge of Ahab's state of being.

But then, as American visitors may have noticed, occasional jingoistic spasms such as this one are as characteristic of the British as self-deprecation.

But religion has always been influenced by the surrounding culture of which it is a part, and dissent and experimentation are as characteristic of American religion as are conformity and order.

When Emily Dickinson's posthumous collection appeared, he immediately grasped its stature, seeing her not just as an oddball spinster-sibyl but as a central American voice: her poems are as "characteristic of our life as our business enterprise, our political turmoil, our demagogism, our millionairism.

The paragliders who colour the skies around Lion's Head, the most dependable local launch site, are as characteristic of Cape Town as the summer wind.

The title is as characteristic of Christian Boltanski's art as the work itself, being perfectly judged and distilled.

"Homosexuality was as characteristic of the Bright Young People as a cloche hat or an outsize party invitation," Mr. Taylor writes.

In every regard, from management style and compensation to corporate strategy, they're as characteristic of their home countries as meat cuts and movies.

But environmental scruples have long been as characteristic of California as budgetary mismanagement, and a battle is brewing.

The response was as characteristic of Kershaw as his trademark curveball, the player who has always refused to show weakness again offering few details about something bothering him.

(Elementary examples in this category are discussed in Appendix B). Notable exceptions are echo and reverberation, in which delay characteristics are as important as magnitude characteristics.