Folk art is by no means restricted to characteristic regional groups or rural arts.
The earlier films bring lumps to the throat by evincing a conventional nostalgia for childhood but without resorting to characteristic Disneyesque sentimentality.
The artists did not simply use whatever came to hand to colour and decorate their manuscripts, although local plants and minerals might lead to characteristic traditions.
In it, more than 500 American soldiers are subjected to characteristic forms of violence of the Afghan war.
Although each species is susceptible to characteristic diseases, these are, in each case, relatively few in number.
But the nature and intensity of the processes at work at and near the land surface also give rise to characteristic assemblages of forms.
It is now understood to have far wider effects, leading to characteristic patterns of temperature, rainfall and drought around much of the world.
Unusually active this year is Tim Burton, who returns to characteristic haunts, as it were, in Dark Shadows, based on an American TV vampire series of the 1960s.
Native ash tree stands are subject to characteristic shaping, which enables a continuous capability to provide fodder, and gives rise to characteristic sylvo-pastoral landscapes.
The colour change is due to characteristic vibrations due to changes in electronic energy levels.
Uncracked spores gave rise to characteristic spectrum that permitted discrimination from its cracked physical state.
