The most obvious characteristic of contemporary American writing, apart from the beat nonsense, is its cosmopolitanism.

In this role of father confessor, he has always been most characteristic and most helpful.

It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;

`` Neutral Tones '' we immediately recognize as a fine poem in Hardy's most characteristic style: the plain but not quite colloquial language, the hard, particular, colorless images, the slightly odd stanza-form, the dramatic handling of the occasion, the refusal to resolve the issue -- all these we have seen in Hardy's best poems.

Dartmouth's favorite and most characteristic recreation is skiing.

In the savannas the most characteristic trees are the monkey bread tree or baobab ( Adanisonia digitata ), doum palm ( Hyphaene ) and euphorbias.

Among the birds most characteristic of Africa are the ostrich and the secretary-bird.

The northern and western sides consist of stony but fertile plains, which are well cultivated and produce luxuriant crops of grain, with some cotton, vines, almonds, olives and figs, but the most characteristic crop of Aegina today ( 2000s ) is pistachio.

This is most likely a secondary evolved characteristic which means there is not necessarily a connection between the teeth and the original dermal scales.

He worked for other managers and produced during his stay in that city some of his most characteristic works.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

A classical order is one of the ancient styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and most readily recognizable by the type of column employed.

Upham shows a balanced and complicated view of Cotton Mather such as this first mention: " One of Cotton Mather's most characteristic productions is the tribute to his venerated master.

A notable characteristic of Linebarger's science fiction is that most of his stories are set in the same universe, with a unified chronology.

A quasithin group is one whose 2-local subgroups have p-rank at most 2 for all odd primes p, and the problem is to classify the simple ones of characteristic 2 type.

A distinguishing feature of most Compactrons is the placement of the evacuation tip on the bottom end, rather than the top end as was customary with " miniature " tubes, and a characteristic 3 / 4 " diameter circle pin pattern.

Greuze's most characteristic pictures were the rendering in colour of the same sentiments of domestic virtue and the pathos of common life, which Diderot had attempted to represent upon the stage.

* In the plane ( d = 2 ), if there are b vertices on the convex hull, then any triangulation of the points has at most 2n − 2 − b triangles, plus one exterior face ( see Euler characteristic ).

But the most noticeable of his productions is A Discourse of Wit ( 1685 ), which contains some of the most characteristic metaphysical opinions of the Scottish philosophy of common sense.

* Single-ended output stages ( be they tube or transistor ) have an asymmetrical transfer function, meaning that even order harmonics in the created distortion tend not to be canceled ( as they are in push – pull output stages ); by using tubes OR FETs most of the distortion is from the square law transfer characteristic and so second-order, which some consider to be " warmer " and more pleasant.

While a truly characteristic euphonium sound is rather hard to define precisely, most players would agree that an ideal sound is dark, rich, warm, and velvety, with virtually no hardness to it.

Researchers found that positive belief in faith healing was mainly a characteristic of conservative Christians, most especially those with charismatic experience.

The most characteristic and ancient element of Greek cuisine is olive oil, which is frequently used in most dishes.

They divide up the household chores: Cerv does most of the cooking ( breakfast and sandwich snacks, with dinner out ), Mantle supplies the transportation ( a white 1961 Oldsmobile convertible ), and Maris drives the 25-minute course from the apartment house to Yankee Stadium.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

In 2000, after losing two division series games to Oakland, Clemens pitched his most spectacular game as a Yankee in the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners: a complete game one-hit shutout with an ALCS-record 15 strikeouts.

" Paine's criticisms of the church, the monarchy, and the aristocracy appear most clearly in Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 1889 ).

Perhaps the most pervasive influence on the use of the term throughout the years has been the song " Yankee Doodle ", which was popular during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) as, following the battles of Lexington and Concord, it was broadly adopted by American rebels.

Traditionally, Yankee was most often used to refer to a New Englander descended from the original settlers of the region ( thus often suggesting Puritanism and thrifty values ).

In Korea, the word " Yankee " is often used to denote anyone who is white Caucasian, and also some non-white Caucasian from countries which are perceived to be predominantly ' white ', including, but not limited to, Britain, Australia, Canada, and most of Europe.

One of the most distinguishing characteristics of Yankee Stadium was the " facade ", a white frieze that ran along the bleacher billboards and scoreboard.

De Wolf's ship, the Yankee, was possibly the most financially successful ship of the war.

It became one of New York's most popular restaurants, and his original Yankee Stadium Monument Park plaque is displayed at the front entrance.

* Subject of the most ambitious community study ever undertaken, the Yankee City project conducted by anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner and his associates

Greenfield is home to the Yankee Siege, considered the most powerful ( current ) trebuchet in the world, which has participated in the annual World Championship Punkin ' Chunkin ' Contest in Sussex County, Delaware since 2004.

White collar workers established the neighborhood known as Westminster where Yankee shortstop and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto lived for most of his adult life, until his death.

The name of the village is said to have been contrived from the first syllables of " Pennsylvania " and " Yankee ," as most of the early settlers were Pennsylvanians and New Englanders ( or Yankees ).

His most notable early role came in 1907 when he starred in The Yankee Tourist to good reviews.

Among his most memorable roles were three that he played in 1950: a singing one as Buffalo Bill in the film version of Annie Get Your Gun, the double-crossing lawyer and sugar-daddy to Marilyn Monroe in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, and his Oscar-nominated role as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee ( re-creating his stage role ), as well as his portrayal of the title role in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's film Julius Caesar in 1953 ( adapted from Shakespeare's play ).

The opposing pitcher in the game was David Cone, who had thrown the most recent perfect game two years earlier as a Yankee.

" The fight, at Yankee Stadium, was the first televised World Heavyweight Championship bout ever, and 146, 000 people watched it on TV, also setting a record for the most seen world heavyweight bout in history.

The Yankee pitcher was Mariano Rivera, one of the game's most feared closers with an especially good record in the postseason.

Latin Americans ( who are the most affected by this use of American ) also have yanqui ( Yankee ) and the euphemism norteamericano / norte-americano " North American ", which technically includes the USA, Mexico and Canada, but is frequently used in Spanish and Portuguese to refer to the United States only.

During the 1983 season, Martin was involved in one of the most controversial regular season games, known as the Pine Tar Incident, where umpires nullified a game-winning home run by Yankee nemesis, Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett, when Martin protested that there was too much pine tar on his bat.

He joined the Cleveland Indians, where his most notable achievement was teaming up with Phil Niekro in a game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium, where they became the first teammates and 300-game winners to appear in the same game.