He gives the world of Hailsham a dominant characteristic: the belief in, indeed the worshipping of, creativity.
But these two matches, so disparate in form and suspense, did share one significant characteristic: the favorite lost in both.
This results in another typical Internet characteristic: the "mirroring" of existing tastes at the expense of discovering anything new.
The barbets (loud-voiced tropical birds) are characteristic, the best known being the coppersmith bird.
Because of multi-output characteristic, the process improvement often requires multi-objective optimization.
The verbless sentences are characteristic, the first job of his narrative being simply to set down what was of the moment.
This episode also brought out his most alarming and sometimes absurd characteristic, the Cassandra complex coupled with a penchant for Delphic utterance.
Which is characteristic, the Guardian management and its agent Rusbridger have told me to say, of the faultless judgment of this greatest of all our national institutions.
Ensconced in the limestone fortress, they have become subspecies of "the performing arts," whose main characteristic, the curious onlooker might decide, is an edifying stuffiness.
More palatable to pacifists is the Jet Pack Buzz Lightyear from Mattel (£39.99), which is let down by the absence of a key characteristic – the ability to fly.
The appeal to Bellow of Ravelstein's extravagance and excitement is characteristic: the "big-souled" intellectual meeting up with the material world is the situation of most Bellow comedy.
