But Mr. Olevsky, who has pioneered climbing routes in the West since the 1970's, said via ferrata shares few traits with the sport of rock climbing.
The two politicians did share a few traits, notably obsessing about real and imagined enemies conspiring against them.
It is possible nevertheless to point to a few traits that are fundamental and common to Hasidism as a whole.
As for Mr. Bush, they said, he shared few traits with his father, for whom they said they had voted enthusiastically.
It's one of the few traits it shares with its parents' generation: a widespread reluctance to grow up all the way.
Over the past two seasons, if there are a few traits that have become clear in Camby's development, it is his natural wont for positive reinforcement.
To this fine heritage, Americans have added a few traits of our own: the good influence of our immigrants, the spirit of the frontier.
Variation in DNA sequence contributes to individual differences in quantitative traits, but in humans the specific sequence variants are known for very few traits.
"You simply don't have adequate coverage of personality disorders with just a few traits," said Thomas Widiger, a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky.
The 2006-12 range of the movie should have allowed for more character depth, but each team member is described in but a few traits, if that.
More centrally, the human characters feel thin at times, overly defined by a few traits or actions and lacking wider context.
