If cockiness is one quintessential characteristic of the city, another is the embrace of variety.
It took Monet less than two years to switch to the sunny, exhilarating colors often perceived as a quintessential characteristic of Impressionist landscape painting.
Rather than attracting the kind of "talent" who have treated the financial markets like their own private casino, such a move might produce bankers who value that quintessential British characteristic of restraint.
The novelist Aminatta Forna, in her Guardian review of the collection, praised Gappah for brilliantly conveying the reality of life in Zimbabwe, adding: "Through humour and compassion, she depicts that most quintessential of African characteristics: the ability to laugh at life, for fear of crying".
The late Early Middle Aptian platform carbonates of the western Maestrat Basin (Iberian Chain, Spain) display facies heterogeneity enabling platform, platform-margin and slope geometries to be identified, and provide a case study that shows all the characteristics of a quintessential four systems tract-based sequence.
Marlowe is crime fiction's quintessential hard-boiled hero, yet one of his most interesting and appealing characteristics is his vulnerability.
In promoting the series, both Piper and Eccleston stressed Rose's heroic characteristics whilst Davies highlighted her down to earth qualities and quintessential Britishness.
Burnett's characteristic narrative approach fell somewhere between that of the quintessential hardboiled writers and their noir fiction compatriots—his protagonists were often heroic in their way, a way just happening to be that of the gangster.
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
