These two original and highly characteristic essays brought Susan into intimate contact with a kind of readership she was perhaps unused to, but to which she responded generously: fellow cancer sufferers who found her attitude inspiring.
Written into this are two characteristic essays by Jacobsen.
And the black writer Zora Neale Hurston in a 1934 essay, "Characteristics of Negro Expression," said that Mae West "had much more flavor of the turpentine quarters than she did of the white bawd".
Equally vibrant but more rigorously scripted, the newly composed "Will to Adorn" evoked Zora Neale Hurston's essay "Characteristics of Negro Expression" with a lavish charm bracelet of exuberant shades and explosive gestures.
Indeed, her work is the best support I know for an assertion made by Zora Neale Hurston, in her still startling 1934 essay "Characteristics of Negro Expression": The Negro's universal mimicry is not so much a thing in itself as an evidence of something that permeates his entire self.
The grim charm of Emerson, and his wisdom, are caught imperishably in that characteristic paragraph from the essay, "Illusions".
John Stuart Mill caught this contradictory quality, with characteristic acuteness, in his essays on Jeremy Bentham (1838) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1840).
"The Hukou System: Racial Discrimination with Chinese Characteristics" was a fiery essay giving expression to the growing resentment among the 74percentt of China's population -- 1 billion people -- who are officially registered as rural residents.
Unsurprising, then, that much of his recent work has been prone to grandiloquent celebrations of Russian nationalism; most notoriously, there was the queasy moment in 1998's The Barber of Siberia when he halted the film for a few minutes to depict a lavish military parade overseen by Tsar Alexander III – a role essayed, with characteristic modesty, by the film-maker himself.
Another paragraphing characteristic found in some essays was a change of margin which was the opposite of what one would expect, the first line starting at the left margin and the remaining lines hanging.
