Sentence examples for that was characteristic from inspiring English sources

There was a way of talking about Christ that was characteristic of the see at Alexandria.

They approached architecture in a way that was characteristic of the early modern movement, but is seldom remembered today.

It is an approach that was characteristic of be-bop, which she says is her musical source.

Theatrically they produced an image of thought-provoking estrangement that was characteristic of this production's intelligent interlacing of Western and Chinese cultural signs.

The carvings were often augmented by the tight geometric patterning that was characteristic of Murik art in particular.

Her subsequent efforts to improve the lot of Native Americans reflected a missionary zeal and a paternalism toward Indians that was characteristic of the 19th century.

And an economy that has tons of top-heavy growth, but none of the broadly distributed growth that was characteristic of, say, the 50s and 60s.

In a way that was characteristic of my generation of artists, the hope was that the attention would be on the work.

You can hear the elation mixed in with the dread: according to a logical short circuit that was characteristic of his thought, an infinite subject meant infinite books.

The anatomic changes between Neanderthal fossil remains and the remains of early modern humans involved largely a loss of the sturdiness that was characteristic of all archaic humans.

Washington's constitution of 1889, reflecting the distrust of government that was characteristic of the time, contained many restrictions on state power.