The circle of mother and child is a Hallmark card place, where the selfless mother nurtures her young, no matter her dreams or ambitions, conflicts or terrors.
"Hospitality is the hallmark of the place".
Carlos Keen – like many similar turn-of-the-20th-century railway towns – has the hallmarks of a place that was supposed to grow with increasing trade: the big church, the station house, the huge central square.
For a country that this week will mark two years since it was ripped apart by an earthquake of magnitude 7.0, Haiti has all the hallmarks of a place in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.
Attention to detail will clearly be the hallmark of this magical place.
That splitting apart — the isolation of the strange to make it stranger — is one of the place's hallmarks.
By the afternoon of Sept. 11, they had been evacuated from their 14-story building, the Hallmark at Battery Park City, and placed on two city buses and a stranded tour bus, with only the clothes on their back, their medications and, in a few cases, their wheelchairs, walkers or motorized scooters.
Mr. Obama, who has made his willingness to engage with adversaries one of his foreign policy hallmarks, sat four places away from Gen. Thein Sein, the prime minister of Myanmar, at the meeting table on Sunday afternoon.
Fendi took the place of a Hallmark card store.
Still, a hallmark of a fine eating place is consistency, and that is lacking at the Hicksville restaurant.
