Julia's characteristic courage had led her to reveal she was gay in the late 60s.
"You're just like the SS, then," Chen replied, with characteristic courage.
With characteristic courage, he openly criticised Sani Abacha, a brutal and egregiously corrupt dictator of Nigeria.
With characteristic courage, he refused to cave in to increasingly poor health, and continued to read, write and teach even after he had become, in effect, a semi-invalid.
Feyerabend's choice of Democritean atomism as sample incarnation of the materialism he wanted to defend shows his characteristic courage, in displaying openly and exactly those weaknesses left out of the limelight.
With characteristic courage, he openly criticised Sani Abacha, a brutal and egregiously corrupt dictator of Nigeria in the 1990s, thus breaking the lamentable code that no African head of government criticises another African head of government.
With characteristic courage, he fought tenaciously to restore order and economic prosperity, and in 1995 survived a car bomb explosion outside the parliament building, as he went to sign a new constitution that was to bring four years of civil war to an end.
Toward this end, the plucky Portman submits to a series of edgy and vivid sexual scenes with characteristic courage.
While both share characteristics like courage, persistence, and often the need to endure real hardship, the prosecution of war also requires other qualities: obedience, indifference to the suffering of oneself and others, and the necessity of viewing the world in black and white.
When he was diagnosed with cancer, he faced it with characteristic honesty, courage and rigour," said Mundy.
With characteristic skill, courage and resolve, he built partnerships with Libyan revolutionaries, and helped them as they planned to build a new Libya.
