Sentence examples for characteristic bit from inspiring English sources

Mr. McCain began the meeting with a characteristic bit of self-deprecating humor.

A characteristic bit follows the logic of something to such an extreme that it becomes illogical.

In a characteristic bit of opportunism, he turned a chance encounter with the English actress Jane Birkin into one of Hermès's biggest successes.

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".

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".

He got better and better at this, and also at a characteristic bit, a long, slow, response to a comment he deemed foolish, in which his features became slack, his eyelids drooped and he seemed about to fall asleep.

These cells recognise alien invaders, chop them up and then carry characteristic bits of them to the rest of the immune system so that the invader can be recognised and appropriate measures taken.

The data are illustrated in terms of bit characteristics: bit number, bit size, make, bit type, nozzle size, depth and deviation, weight on bit, rotation, pump pressure, mud flow rate, mud weight, mud viscosity, and bit condition.

The PSNR of a compressed video stream depends on several factors, including the video characteristics, bit rate, the percentage of lost slices, and their CMSE values [9, 34].

The performances including MIMO channel characteristics, bit-error rate against signal-to-noise ratio curves, the impairments of carrier frequency offset and channel estimation inaccuracy, and an asymmetric MIMO scheme are reported and analyzed in this paper.

Species membership is a morally irrelevant characteristic, a bit of luck that is no more morally interesting than being born male or female, Malaysian or French.