Alison Gopnik

For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.

American Psychologist

Glen Duncan

I'm not quite sure when I began to be troubled by the creeping sense of my own ludicrousness, but it persisted - and eventually grew into a fascination. I started writing about it. Thus, in His characteristically mysterious way, the Lord made clear His plans for me.

British Author

Tony Judt

Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.

British Historian

What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.

Steven Sinofsky

My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

American Businessman

Michelle Dean

My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.

American Journalist

Wendell Berry

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

American Poet

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

English Politician

Arthur E. Morgan

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

American Public Servant

Use to hint at someone acting as they usually do, often predictably.

Common Behavior

Describes behavior or attributes common to a specific group.

Group Norms

Can imply a less-than-desirable habitual action.

Negative Traits

Indicates traits or features that set someone or something apart.

Unique Traits

Used to point out a distinguishing characteristic that acts as a signature.

Special Signature

Highlights qualities that define or represent the essence of the subject.

Defining Qualities

 That's the problem here, and she's fighting me for that, and so then I asked her a question -- I didn't know how I was going to get out of it -- I asked her a question about her days as a playwright, and again, characteristically, instead of saying, "Oh yes, I was a playwright, and this is what blah blah blah,"

Marc Pachter: The art of...

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Characteristically