The phrase "familiar characteristics" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe traits or qualities that are well-known or easily recognized. Example: The character of Sherlock Holmes is known for his brilliant deductions and familiar characteristics such as his iconic deerstalker hat and pipe.
Though it lacks familiar characteristics, a potent political force is on the march.
The 5th-century-bce Greek historian Herodotus remarked that Homer and Hesiod gave to the Olympian gods their familiar characteristics.
While most people who share familiar characteristics across generations have a safe refuge among their families, gay people often do not.
Other various individual, genetic, and familiar characteristics were associated with EAH, yet studies among more heterogeneous sample populations are needed to confirm findings.
The novel seems to be the book of self: the problem is that, once you start to write it, you see that it has taken on certain familiar characteristics.
A longtime practitioner and scholar of public health, Drucker observed the explosive growth and unprecedented number of Americans being sent to prison beginning in the late 1970s and recognized the familiar characteristics of the spread of an epidemic disease: outbreaks and contagion, patterns of transmission, and human impact – tens of millions of years of life lost to incarceration.
Such a comforting displacement is a familiar characteristic of childhood.
The management of construction is complex enough without changes (e.g. to design/specification/client requirements), yet it is a familiar characteristic of in construction projects.
In many of these instances, Ken notes, using a different qualifier — familiar, characteristic, usual, unusual, proud, favorite, feared, beloved — or using none at all might have been refreshing.
In 1490 Dürer completed his earliest known painting, a portrait of his father that heralds the familiar characteristic style of the mature master.
But those assumptions no longer apply in California, where newly deregulated utility companies instead share a familiar characteristic with their Internet brethren these days -- enormous cash burn -- but lack the huge Internet growth prospects that might otherwise keep stock prices afloat.
