"characteristic note" is a valid phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a distinctive or defining quality or feature of something or someone. Example: In all his speeches, Martin Luther King Jr.'s characteristic note of hope and resilience resonated with his audience.
Each of these books ends on a characteristic note.
Hurt hits the characteristic note of befuddled puzzlement upon waking to find himself locked in the Coach And Horses.
"He had wanted to be a writer and an artist," says his son, introducing a characteristic note of frosty candour into the conversation, "and he hadn't achieved that".
In it he strikes a characteristic note of delicately absurd artificiality, while a deliberate disproportion between language and subject pays comic dividends and sets a good-humoured and sympathetic tone.
Crystal did his usual routine: he had himself edited into film clips with the nominees, laughed regularly at his own jokes, and struck a characteristic note of insouciant insensitivity: "Nothing can take the sting out of our economic worries more than millionaires presenting themselves with little gold statues".
This new volume — her 14th, not counting a collection of selected stories that came out in 1996 — is further proof of her mastery, and also a reminder that unlike a lot of accomplished short-story writers — unlike William Trevor, say, her only living rival — Munro did not hit a characteristic note early on and then stick with it.
Furthermore, the kinetic characteristic noted for these granules yields a zero-order phenol degradation behavior with 500 1500 mg l−1 phenol, which facilitates reactor design and scale up.
His neighbors, the aborigines, had learned to blend with nature, and in turn it became part of them, an intrinsic characteristic noted in McCleary and his latest musical project, Panama.
Decreased paranasal sinus development (hypoplasia) is also a distinguishing characteristic noted in CF patients.
One characteristic noted in level 2 responses was that students correctly described hydroxyl group chemistry but did not address or only briefly addressed amino group chemistry.
Also, the age distribution of individuals infected with swine flu deviates from that of seasonal influenza - with more morbidity and mortality amongst young adults [ 5], again a characteristic noted in previous pandemics [ 6, 7].
