The phrase "very characteristic of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is a strong or prominent feature or trait of a person, thing, or situation. Example: "Her creativity and unique style are very characteristic of her as an artist."
"We also worked with folds that both hide and reveal, very characteristic of the Baroque period.
The film ends with extraordinary and unpredictable savagery, very characteristic of Solondz.
The great carved brackets which support the architraves are very characteristic of Jaina construction.
Any street food staples? A. There's a sandwich called chivito that's very characteristic of Uruguay.
This last technique – not telling the reader what my detective is thinking – is very characteristic of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Stephanie was from Germany and had an internalized culture of praise that was very characteristic of her native cultural context.
Each of the uses described has associated with it the means for abuse of the very characteristics of lakes that make them desirable.
Central to these questions are the very characteristics of the North Korean regime, a totalitarian state whose opacity, paranoia and unpredictability are as daunting as its repression of its own population.
Each year, companies are struck internally and externally by a number of diverse factors that can be described as volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous - the very characteristics of the VUCA principle (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity).
He typifies the very characteristics of the Bush years that thrust this nation into its abyss.
...Intellectualization, quantification, abstractification, bureaucratization, and reification--the very characteristics of modern industrial society, when applied to people rather than to things, are not the principles of life but those of mechanics.
