Sentence examples for characteristically British from inspiring English sources

Although patience with Cameron's grandstanding rhetoric is now wearing thin, there are European politicians who value scepticism, liberalism and a diplomatic hotline to the White House as characteristically British contributions to the European project.

Perhaps some characteristically British smells deserve their own terms, too.

It seemed a harmonious, and characteristically British, compromise.

Perhaps this whole idea – of elevating the everyday – is characteristically British.

In characteristically British fashion, Mensch is self-deprecating when it comes to the subject of her novels.

Many of us grew up viewing the American smile with a characteristically British blend of fear, mockery and secret envy.

But perhaps the finest – and most characteristically Leeds – is Quebecs Hotel, housed in the exuberant terracotta palace of the old Leeds and County Liberal Club.

In the meantime, many of the Prohibitionist leaders expressed an earnest — and characteristically Progressive — desire to help those who seemed, to them, insufficiently progressed.

Dr. Robert L. Kahn, a co-author of "Successful Aging" (Delacorte Press) and professor emeritus of public health and psychology at the University of Michigan, says this nation's approach to mobility problems is characteristically American.

But they do perfectly represent the elements out of which each of us -- however we differ -- tries to fashion a meaningful existence, one that looks characteristically American whether we mean it to or not.

His love for the region was further evident in his passion for bluegrass music and old Southernisms, like the use of "dinner" for "lunch". In 1990, he countered animal rights activists who said pigs' squeals at characteristically Southern greased-pig contests proved that the animals were suffering.