In 1894, an American missionary, Arthur H. Smith, wrote an influential book, "Chinese Characteristics," in which a chapter, "The Absence of Sympathy," raised similar questions.
In this book the characteristics of synchrotron radiation, including insertion device radiation, are described and derived from first principles.
The topics and organization in the book comprise characteristics well suited for a textbook.
His reaction to losing last year's libel suit — recalled in Evans's book — was characteristic.
The suspicion of ideology that pervades this book is characteristic of our mistrustful post-cold-war age.
"But none of that has made me less of an Upper West Side princess," she writes toward the end of the book, with characteristic wryness.
The essay on Wilson, which opens the book (a characteristic gesture by Vidal: his megacollection of essays from 1993, "United States," likewise began with a homage to Wilson), introduces us at once to the first and most insistent of his bugbears, which is the horribleness of Abraham Lincoln.
It has to be added, however, that Godard wrote an affectionate introduction for the Truffaut book, a characteristic mixture of eloquence and obscurity, in which he said, looking back on their youth: "The cinema had taught us how to live; but life, like Glenn Ford in The Big Heat, was to take its revenge".
He claims that applying NKS widely could lead to advances not only in mathematics and computing but also physics, biology and even the social sciences".I have come to view NKS as one of the more important single discoveries in the whole history of theoretical science," Dr Wolfram declares in his book with characteristic immodesty.
But, with regard to the hip-joint, many surgeons seem to be satisfied with merely examining the general features of the case in order to recognize those outlying symptoms which are described in books as characteristic and indicative of hip-joint disease.
