Sentence examples for familiar traits from inspiring English sources

The people of Great Britain also might see some familiar traits in Americans.

Vowel harmony is among the more familiar traits of the modern Uralic languages.

Recer's peremptory manner and abundant self-confidence are familiar traits among entrepreneurs, and they are generally more often forgiven in men than in women.

Her rise was helped along, naturally, by opportunism and persistent self-aggrandizement — familiar traits, but in Palin's case magnified, or melodramatized, to an unusual degree.

Slayman's husband of 57 years, Clifford L. Slayman, PhD, emeritus professor of cellular and molecular physiology, took special delight in how well the portrait highlights one of his wife's familiar traits.

But the new version, even at its clunkiest, could not be more uncompromising in its paranoid portrayal of a political cartel with certain familiar traits that will stop at nothing, including the exploitation and even the fomenting of terrorism, to hold on to power for its corporate backers.

That may seem like a familiar trait for many South American countries, but La Blanquirroja took it to another level: they simply did not care who the opposition was.

As a pundit and in his post-match briefings his stock in trade has been a withering sarcasm that will be a familiar trait to most of us who were brought up in Yorkshire.

This kind of noncommittal plotting is an all too familiar trait of contemporary short films, which is maybe why so many viewers find them unappealing, even as they bemoan the increasingly mammoth runtimes of the movies vying for best picture.

Namelessness has become an increasingly familiar trait in the fiction of exile, in which immigrants acquire new titles to suit new lives — the African main character of Dinaw Mengestu's "All Our Names" (2014) takes an assumed identity when he comes to America, and we never learn his birth name — or simply lose their names in transit, like misplaced luggage.

He may dream this - being a dreamer is another familiar trait of the characters in Russian novels - but he knows that for many readers his task is hopeless, and says so early on, with an edge of both despair and frustration: "Mathematical knowledge is unlike any other knowledge," he writes in his Preface.