Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies.
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
I appreciate having been promoted for merit, on merit. And then bringing to bear whatever those extra special characteristics that all of us have.
Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy their individual characteristics until, in time, you eliminate the spiritual, for instance, from the religious altogether.
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.
Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on.
Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.
Tolerance and tranquility are two characteristics of true love.
The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.
If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.
Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization.
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?