characteristical

To make punishments efficacious they should be (4) 'characteristical' or impressive to the imagination; and that they may not be excessive they should be (5) exemplary or likely to impress others, and (6) frugal.

The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868

In her creative moments, she "rejects hierarchical thinking characteristical of Western Culture" and chooses instead "spirituality."

Doing both at once 2010

England, however, as it has never been blessed with a very parsimonious government, so parsimony has at no time been the characteristical virtue of its inhabitants.

Pension Bagholders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

These kinds of media reflect features that are very characteristical of the purpose they serve and have been most common across the media in a past and nowadays.

Think Progress » Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’ 2006

These kinds of media reflect features that are very characteristical of the purpose they serve and have been most common across the media in a past and nowadays.

Think Progress » U.S. Image Among Lebanese Plummets 30 Points 2006

So saying, he opened his cloak, forgetting, with his characteristical inconsistency, that he showed his shirt stained with blood.

The Monastery 2008

When they were comfortably seated over a bottle of Paxarete, Middlemas began, with characteristical caution, to sound his friend about the ease or difficulty with which an individual, desirous of entering the

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

These kinds of media reflect features that are very characteristical of the purpose they serve and have been most common across the media in a past and nowadays. ” Comment by One Jew †July 29, 2006 @ 12: 09 pm

Think Progress » Bush Repeatedly Ignores Blair’s Sound Advice 2006

Cargill returned to his native country alone, indulging upon the road in a melancholy abstraction of mind, which he had suffered to grow upon him since the mental shock which he had sustained, and which in time became the most characteristical feature of his demeanour.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

These kinds of media reflect features that are very characteristical of the purpose they serve and have been most common across the media in a past and nowadays. ” Comment by One Jew †July 29, 2006 @ 12: 09 pm

Think Progress » U.S. Image Among Lebanese Plummets 30 Points 2006