But when he took up that music in the 1980's, he played it with characteristic flair.
A version of the legend was retold in P.G. Wodehouse's William Tell Told Again (1904), written in prose and verse with characteristic Wodehousian flair.
Indian film critic Nikhat Kazmi of Times of India gave the film a positive review praising Atkinson's characteristic flair for comedy once again, giving it a 4 star rating out of 5.
Iran's supreme religious leader confirmed, for the first time, that he had approved the resolution and added, with his characteristic rhetorical flair: "Taking this decision was more deadly than taking poison.
With characteristic flair, he changed his name from Horst P. A. Bohrmann to Horst P. Horst.
Ms. Bartoli tosses off "Un moto di gioia" with characteristic flair and lilt.
The show, of course, has numerous portraits that jump off the wall with characteristic Leibovitzian flair - a heady mix of intimacy and posturing, elaborated, like paintings of saints, by recognizable attributes.
After coming to the Yankees in a trade with Toronto on July 1, Mondesi has had a slow first month but is finishing with characteristic flair.
Given the circumstances, you'd hardly expect a debate about the morality of the air offensive: what the play provides, with Rattigan's characteristic flair for understatement, is a deeply moving portrait of people at war.
Erin summed it up one day a few weeks after I met him with his characteristic flair for drama.