It combines the aesthetic of American verismo with dream-like qualities often characteristic of a psychological drama.

It consists of exercising the characteristic human quality - reason - as the soul's most proper and nourishing activity.

Most of the chemical reactions that give groundwaters their characteristic qualities occur near the surface.

Or he means that it is one of the characteristic qualities of a corrupt Government to denounce its own corruption.

He insisted that this was a voice with characteristic qualities which might be exploited to some purpose on the air.

Spagnoli's interest in the characteristic qualities of photographic processes extends to other aspects of his work.

Each type of musical instrument has a characteristic sound quality that is largely independent of pitch or loudness.

Medium specific can be seen to mean that "the artwork is constituted by the characteristic qualities of the raw material."

The Morgan's first full-scale presentation of its Northern European drawings radiates characteristic quality and scope.

What initially prevented spring wheat from wide adoption was its characteristic flinty quality and high middlings content.