The quantitative characteristics, not so much.
Then, I was served a clear chunky ice-cold soup laced with soy and with the characteristic sour, sweet, salty and spicy combination that is characteristic of so much Southeast Asian and Korean cooking.
Reacting against the insider trading characteristic of so much 20th- and 21st-century literature in the wake of modernism, some students refuse allusion altogether.
The current crop mostly has the made-up-on-the-spot feel characteristic of so much Web comedy — roll the camera, find two or three laughs, and it's on to the next episode.
Those seeking the usual charnel-house cheap thrills characteristic of so much modern horror will be disappointed; Mr. Svankmajer's provocations skew toward the intellectual and the shivery rather than the pop and the visceral, and at his best, he doesn't just get under your skin, but also deep in your head, too.
Resembling in their characteristic grimness nothing so much as figures in a portrait by some latter-day Grant Wood, this husband and wife are busy pursuing their version of the American dream in the desert on the edge of Death Valley.
Almost all former policy advisers, their distinguishing characteristic is not so much their intelligence (there is no dearth of brain power among their Tory and Lib Dem contemporaries), but the fact that it comes with ministerial experience.
"Chauvel's leadership," wrote Henry Gullett, "was distinguished by the rapidity with which he summed up the very obscure Turkish position in the early morning, and by his judgement and characteristic patience in keeping so much of his force in reserve until the fight developed sufficiently to ensure its most profitable employment".
Aside from anything else, the replacement, while maintaining some of the characteristics, had a tendency not so much to crack as crevice, which may have looked a great deal worse than it played but was still, and remains, a visual, and hence mental, problem.
These themes, as described below, are not so much defining characteristics as family resemblances.
In other words, ethnicity is not so much a characteristic of people that can easily be determined (see also (26– 28), but is constructed in research.
