"The middle class has shrunk in size, it's declined in income and in wealth, and has lost a little bit of that characteristic faith in the future that defines Americans broadly, but particularly the middle class".
In the aforesaid "language is my shtick," the sense of shtick is not the original "piece," nor the extended "comic routine"; rather, it is the sense absorbed into the English language of "characteristic bit of business" or, more generally, "specialty".
He made a habit early in his career of being in-your-face, maybe a bit of a jerk, characteristics some might associate with New Yorkers as well.
The term, according to Buchheit, is "short, obscure, and sports a bit of Latin; all characteristics that lawyers find endearing".
Mr. McCain began the meeting with a characteristic bit of self-deprecating humor.
In a characteristic bit of opportunism, he turned a chance encounter with the English actress Jane Birkin into one of Hermès's biggest successes.
Originally a characteristic bit of word-jumbling by Ringo Starr, the phrase had already been included by Lennon in "Sad Michael," a short piece in his first book, "In His Own Write".
As you may have heard elsewhere on the internet, Radiohead heralded their ninth studio LP A Moon Shaped Pool with a characteristic bit of techno-trickery: they deleted every tweet they'd ever made, deactivated their Facebook account, and slowly dimmed their website to printer-paper white.
Briefly, the Tanimoto similarity threshold coefficient is the ratio of the number of bit-key characteristics common to both sample sets (the size of the intersection) divided by the number of bit-key characteristics found in either or both sets (the size of the union), and thus explains the similarity and diversity of the sample sets (Baldi and Nasr 2010).
In the embedding process, according to the value of to-be-embedded bit and the characteristic of descriptions, the means of certain squares in the wave atom tiling are adjusted to be larger or smaller.
