By describing the characteristics of something, you invite the audience to try to unravel the mystery before you reveal the answer, forcing them to become active listeners.
"Ser" is used to describe the essential characteristics of something - for example, it is used for physical descriptions, for time and dates and for describing characters and personalities, amongst other things.
Although there are a great many love poems, a fair few elegies and a generally frank response to everything under the sun, there is also a characteristic mood of something like (but not the same as) evasion in his poems.
The design on these coins was expected to feature the same George Washington image found in the obverse of the original issues, while the reverse would depict illustrations of something characteristic to that location.
"We've always attributed those things to the plants themselves, what we're increasingly understanding is the characteristic of their plant is something to do with the genome of the plant, and something to do with the genome of the microbes in it," Perry said.
A characteristic bit follows the logic of something to such an extreme that it becomes illogical.
They need to have distilled their style into something characteristic of themselves, to have a unique visual language.
Although very different in tone, Elfrida Vipont and Raymond Briggs's The Elephant and the Bad Baby has the same characteristic of contrasting reality with something absolutely entirely unlikely.
For this still to be a case of toleration, the kind of esteem characteristic of these relations is something like "reserved esteem," that is, a kind of positive acceptance of a belief that for some reason you still find is not as attractive as the one you hold.
In many ways, these afternoons are exaggerated expressions of something that is characteristic of both New York (where space is precious and its value inflated) and the restaurant business (where the size of the kitchen and the dining room are financial calculations, and a small kitchen means more tables).
