After Senator Manchin made his speech on Tuesday calling for an end to nation-building in Afghanistan, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, took to the floor to rebuke him, calling Mr. Manchin's remarks characteristic of the "isolationist-withdrawal-lack-of-knowledge-of-history attitude that seems to be on the rise".
This model was developed to predict the aerodynamic performance of a new-concept turbine whose most remarked characteristics are high number of blades and low rotational speed.
This remark, characteristic of Blair's semi-scriptural messages of transcendence, is not so much an observation on the repentance of Libya as on the indirect repentance of the west; an acknowledgement of error, not in relation to Libya, but to the despot of another country – Saddam Hussein.
But others said the delivery of the remarks was characteristic of Benedict's style.
One officer remarked, "The characteristics we are looking for in these agents are in general exactly opposite to what the pharmaceutical firms want in drugs, that is the undesirable side effects".
And while applauding Mr. Obama's comment that his own son would look like Trayvon, Dr. Watkins said the president's remarks were characteristic of how Mr. Obama talks to black people.
Here, Allen gets the tone exactly right, simultaneously avoiding and knowingly mocking the kind of historical pastiche Max Beerbohm was sending up in the celebrated stage direction to his Renaissance playlet Savonarola Brown: "Enter Boccaccio, Benvenuto Cellini and many others making remarks highly characteristic of themselves".
Patients from African and Asian settings (n = 4, 7 % of studies from Africa and n = 1, 6 % of studies from Asia), sometimes remarked that characteristics of midwives and nurses themselves, such as age and marital status, influenced behaviours and attitudes.
Last month, his Beautiful Artemis Thor Neptune Odin Delusional Sapphic Inspirational Hypnosis Painting, estimated at £2m, failed to sell at auction in New York, inciting Hirst to remark, with characteristic chutzpah, that it was "overpriced".
He died penniless, of meningitis, at 46 in the Hotel d'Alsace, today just L'Hotel, on the Rue des Beaux-Arts, but not before remarking, with characteristic wit, "I am dying as I have lived — beyond my means".
