What probably began as a defensive pose became an ingrained characteristic: Stein's preternatural cheerfulness may be her most outstanding personality trait.
He reacted in a measured way to Mr Giscard d'Estaing's remarks and hopes that Turkey will raise its standing in EU circles by putting its weight behind a Cyprus settlement.Whatever happens at the Copenhagen summit, the EU has an ingrained characteristic working in Turkey's favour: a habit of being trapped by its own promises.
Yes, some programs are run unsatisfactorily, and ingrained sociopathic behavior so characteristic of addicts may persist.
Leadership, integrity and accountability are characteristics that are ingrained in every military service member.
Lad obeys the Law in part because of his heredity as a purebred, and the Master considers himself a thoroughbred due to his having certain "race characteristics that are ingrained in his blood".
I imagine most people agree that single-parent households are not ideal (I happen to agree), but I do feel fortunate that these characteristics are so deeply ingrained in me that feminism is what I am rather than an abstract idea.
For the purpose of interpreting how defensive styles affect the behavior of leaders, there is some truth to the suggestion that the neutrality and lack of warmth characteristic of some leaders is a result of an ingrained fear of becoming the object for other people for to become the object arouses fears that subordinates will become envious and compete for power.
Personality is the characteristic way in which an individual thinks, feels, and behaves; it accounts for the ingrained behaviour patterns of the individual and is the basis for predicting how the individual will act in particular circumstances.
The proximate causes of particular topophilia are embedded in measurable characteristics: environmental perception, defined as the response of senses to external stimuli and purposeful activity; attitude, or ingrained cultural stances; and values, the rank-ordered conception of preferences that emerge following a personalized exercise in trade-offs among alternative scenarios.
(*Note: this "pretty comes first" mentality is so deeply ingrained that when I first drafted that last sentence it read: "only then can she be noticed for other valuable characteristics and strengths". Because being pretty is something to be truly valued?).
