Sentence examples for characteristically replied from inspiring English sources

Beethoven characteristically replied: "They understand nothing".

To reporters who asked Father Palladino whether he planned to see the film, he replied, characteristically, that he saw few movies of any kind.

I recall once complaining to my father about the discomfort I experienced when the tops of my thighs rubbed together, causing sore, red patches, to which he replied, characteristically obliquely, "Try pushing yourself away from the table". At the time, as children tend to, I took him literally.

"No," replied Marshall, characteristically unperturbed.

Brand replied in characteristically disarming fashion: he was in the editor's chair because he had been "politely asked by an attractive woman".

Told about his low T-cell count, Ms. Carr says, Wojnarowicz replied with characteristically bleak wit: "He asked the doctor to just let him know when there were few enough that he could give them all names".

He replied in a characteristically candid letter.

My father had replied (just as characteristically), "I think you're my wife".

McClellan's characteristically immodest reply — "I can do it all" — proved less than prescient.

Blasco gives a characteristically modest reply: "I just run my lab and make the projects work for the students," while also doing work that is "of interest to my colleagues".

"Sometimes, when we're hungry," is their characteristically droll reply.