Sentence examples for classic trait of from inspiring English sources

The inability to see distinctions that are obvious to others seems a classic trait of the dry drunk.

She demonstrated the classic trait of a newspaper columnist (her former trade) - the tendency to push everything just a little too far.

It was after a doctor discovered a blue and green mole during an annual pelvic exam that I began to exhibit the other classic trait of OCD: repeated actions.

Jealously is a classic trait of ungrateful people.

Both these features are classic traits of a Louis van Gaal side.

A few classic traits of New Orleans politics have not been drowned out.

In his book Calcio, John Foot observed that: "During the celebrations, Napoli fans displayed all the classic traits of what has become known as the Neapolitan 'character': irony, parody and a sense of the macabre, obscenity and blasphemy".

While his energies might have waned (his voice on the chemically addled Dr Buzz is particularly fried), the spooky groove of We Can Do It and the chintzy jazz-lite of Vitamin revive the classic traits of his early career.

René Descartes France's national philosopher, whose Discourse on Method defined thought as the essential human quality ("I think, therefore I am") and exemplified one of the classic traits of the French style of thinking: the deductive mode of reasoning, which starts with a general, abstract proposition and then works towards a specific conclusion.

"All the classic traits of a dynamic market," Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Bob Herbold said in a telephone interview Dec. 3.

The five companies illustrate classic traits of what VCs seek in Net startups: They are heavily staffed with wunderkind talents, they are supported by "name" executives like Clark, Silverberg and Barksdale, and they promise products and services with broad consumer appeal.