Sentence examples for be characteristically from inspiring English sources
adverb
In a usual or expected way; in characteristic manner.
His 11th New York show may be characteristically quiet, but it is a quiet knockout.
The reaction zone was found to be characteristically broad and the temperature images were patchy in the lower part of the furnace.
These remarks may be characteristically Chilean -- we make statements without any basis, but in a tone of such certainty that no one doubts us" -- yet they don't help conjure a particularly vivid portrait of the country.
But Sir John, who is 57, found the challenge tantalizing, and the solution turned out to be characteristically bold: perform and record them all in one year, 2000, the 250th anniversary of Bach's death.
When she returns next season, it will be characteristically in Wagner, in a relatively minor role as Waltraute in "Götterdämmerung," which by then she will have been singing, on and off, for 34 years.
Like most writers of westerns, he relied on movies for much of his imagery, but Leonard had taken the time to do a modicum of fact-finding, about which he would later be characteristically self-deprecating: "I cribbed most of my research.
Alastair was characteristically blunt.
Joseph was characteristically undaunted.
Ellis is characteristically calm.
Church is characteristically undeterred.
Smith was characteristically defiant.
