Sentence examples for to be characteristic from inspiring English sources

"People have called me everything," he says with what turns out to be characteristic overstatement.

This kind of confidence tends to be characteristic of particular social groups.

Eventually, he treats both in a cruel manner and with a dismissive wit we now know to be characteristic.

This personality type -- which Christopher Lasch took to be characteristic of our age -- is depressive, irritable, edgy, easily angered.

He recalls why he signed up for the Trieste mission with what turns out to be characteristic understatement.

This was the first of a series of reversals that were to be characteristic.

Even traits thought to be characteristic of distinct taxonomic groups have unexpectedly been observed in other microbes.

There is no cut-and-dried answer, and this ambivalence around the use of antidepressants seems to be characteristic of those taking them.

On his face is an expression, both amused and impenetrable, which anyone who met him will recognise at once to be characteristic.

His decision to accept a government post demonstrates the sense of public service which many of us know to be characteristic.

Richardson anticipated such criticism and included a rebuttal in its postscript: "The letters and conversations, where the story makes the slowest progress are presumed to be characteristic.