What is "characteristically"

Usage examples of "characteristically".

In a characteristically spirited, unambiguous letter, Adams made the case for revaluation and for no preferred treatment for French merchants, his purpose being to make clear his own views and those, he was sure, of Congress and the American people.

Also, characteristically Adams was thinking of his son John Quincy, and the rough treatment he was receiving from an uncivil Congress.

There are those who say that taken as a whole, the Soviet cosmonautics programme was characteristically uncertain of its engineering and insufficiently strict in selecting flight personnel.

Thoreau was in so many ways so characteristically Emersonian that one wonders what influence it was in the place or time that gave them both, with their disparity of ages, so nearly the same stamp.

For many decades the prevailing view of neurophysiologists was that the frontal lobes, behind the forehead, are the sites of anticipation and planning for the future, both characteristically human functions.

As regards command over abstraction, it is no less characteristically Shelleian than Prometheus.

To engage in such an undertaking, Burns required small persuasion, and while Thomson asked for strains delicate and polished, the poet characteristically stipulated that his contributions were to be without remuneration, and the language seasoned with a sprinkling of the Scottish dialect.

In its attitude to man it is Whitmanesque to a high degree, yet it is also most characteristically Chestertonian.

Southey and Lovell appeared the next day with their acts complete, Coleridge, characteristically, with only a part of his.

If during its development a young animal is deprived of key hormones - thyroid hormone, or oestrogen or testosterone - the nervous connections in parts of its brain grow characteristically askew.

Scientific materialists are committed to the tradition of science and characteristically display considerable confidence in the authority of science and in its future progress.

It is possible that lower mammals and reptiles, lacking extensive frontal lobes, also lack this sense, real or illusory, of individuality and free will, which is so characteristically human and which may first have been experienced dimly by Proconsul.

Through this process matter passes over from the aeriform condition into that of numerous separate, characteristically structured solid bodies - the starch grains.

Harry had hidden his characteristically pale grey android eyes behind dark brown contact lenses, and successfully courted the beautiful heiress before she knew that he was an android, an act which was still illegal in some parts of the country.

Derwent Coleridge, has a little antedated the poet's stages of development in stating that when his father was sent to Christ's Hospital in his eleventh year he was "already a poet, and yet more characteristically a metaphysician.