He received Nicholas brusquely (imagining this to be characteristically military) and questioned him with an important air, as if considering the general progress of affairs and approving and disapproving with full right to do so.
In the same famous essay Temple speaks of a friend, whose conduct and prudence he characteristically admires.
Characteristically enough, Voltaire, at the last moment, did his best to reinforce his tentative metaphysical observations on 'M.
Characteristically enough, the appearance of this new potentiality was only observed by two contemporary forces in European society--Goethe and the Austrian police.
Not only in clay and glaze but in decoration these wares are characteristically Roman; but the question as to the actual centre or centres of their manufacture still admits of some discussion.
The turned-up shoes and the pointed tutuli worn by the women, as well as the physiognomy of the figures, with their receding foreheads, are all characteristically Etruscan, though the two former details are borrowed from Ionia.
Young Vincent, whom I take to be a splendid young fellow, told me it was the characteristically "Chautauquan" event of the day.
He had been sleeping badly for some weeks, and when he started up Mount Marcy he had neuralgia in one foot; but he had characteristically determined to ignore and "bully" this ailment.
There are fewer Carpaccio touches here, but he has characteristically put a mischievous youth at the end of a boom.
So sensitive is he, that he is afflicted by scruples about his addiction to the mild dissipation of tea-drinking (tea being very characteristically his favourite beverage).
We notice it first in Herder, with his admirable appreciation of the characteristically national intellectual productions of different countries.
In his hands, the violin has oftentimes become almost vocal, and his performance on that most expressive of instruments has been very characteristically described by an accomplished public critic, as "soul-satisfying in the extreme.
All peaches come in bearing so early and bear so regularly that varietal differences in these characters scarcely count in classifying, but productiveness varies very characteristically in different varieties.
Always an age, conspicuously and characteristically scientific, has been an age of clearly developed classes and of a general duplicity in living.
The agitation, however, is so characteristically rendered by the music, that, while appearing to flow from an irresistible impulse, it is in reality only an effect of a definite musical formula fitly working out a given motif.
Thus characteristically did these two Britons greet each other, meeting unexpectedly on the steps of one of the hotels at Zermatt.
Failing the daughter-in-law I prophesy the outcome will be an action for breach of promise," she went on, characteristically eager to provoke a battle of words in order to enjoy the triumph of crushingly defeating the enemy.
Many of the more pretentious residences are old family mansions of the Moorish, characteristically Spanish colonial type and, therefore, charming to a stranger from the north.
No conception of the Chilean country as a whole can be formed, however, unless it is understood that it is naturally divided into zones, as characteristically dissimilar as are the various grand divisions of the United States.
This custom continued to the worst period of the empire, though it was shamefully and characteristically evaded.
Walpole characteristically ridicules this affectation: "As if she had never seen a man fall on his face before!
Darwin was characteristically frank and generous in admitting that the principle of Natural Selection had been independently recognised by Dr.
In accentuating the struggle for life Darwin stands as a characteristically English thinker: he continues a train of ideas which Hobbes and Malthus had already begun.
Such an attitude is characteristically Irish; and equallycharacteristically English was the reception of this play when Mr. Thomas Kingston presented it at a matinee at the Strand Theatre in London.
Killarney is the one place in Ireland which every tourist wants to see, not because it is characteristically Irish, but because it has been very carefully exploited.
The direct question is in a characteristically great number of cases answered falsely.
It is characteristically different from the real event and a confusion of the two is impossible.
The hand lies in the lap apparently inert, but the otherwise well concealed anger slowly makes a fist of it, or the fingers bend characteristically forward as if they wished to scratch somebody's eyes out.
The most complicated crimes are characteristically planned by women, and are frequently swelled with a number of absolutely purposeless criminal deeds.
But it is most characteristically frequent and sharply defined among people who have no real business in life.
There is some whimsicality in placing the two ladies under a canopy,[56] formed by the unnailed valance of the bed, and characteristically crowned by the wig-box of a highwayman.
The light is well distributed, and the scene most characteristically represented.
Whatever the aide-de-camp may have thought, the Prince himself was certainly a happy lover in his own characteristically serious way.
A boy," ran the telegram, and Queen Victoria characteristically replied, "Is it a fine boy?
And then shecharacteristically explained to him exactly what would have to be done to make this possible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "characteristically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: intrinsically; markedly; peculiarly; singularly
