Scanning this businesslike document, I recalled a characteristic phrase of my father's.
Heggie's characteristic phrases almost always turn downwards, closing in on themselves, rather than expanding to more ambitious directions.
It is a characteristic phrase, from a writer of a very definite prose, with sharp outlines and a distinctly high-handed economy.
In a characteristic phrase, he would say of a piece of music or a poem, also his greatest compliment with regard to some human intervention: "It has done me good".
The results in Table 3 provide characteristic phrase groups for the tweets that the followers retweeted.
To obtain candidate phrases, or characteristic phrases, from the gathered text, an automatic terminology extraction method, used in natural language processing, is applied to each document set.
So, I do realize that Kirby's songs might be hard to play or hum, but despite the complex notes and structure, I think the reason why so many people still find Kirby's music enjoyable is because the songs only have a small number of characteristic phrases.
Lee had won his first victory and promptly dispatched to the President a message in which he prefaced announcement to that effect with the characteristic phrase, "Profoundly grateful to almighty God".107 But it was a heavy price he had paid.
A characteristic Bowen phrase is: "life with the lid on".
Speaking to senior leaders, Mr. Xi repeatedly invoked Deng, especially on the need to adhere to "socialism with Chinese characteristics," a phrase often used to mean a combination of pragmatic policies and one-party rule.
