With characteristic humor, he portrayed Adam in a striped bathing suit, or sporting a tattoo.

Birrell wrote, and spoke, with a characteristic humour which became known as birrelling.

With the author's characteristic humor and creativity, the work describes one girl's fantasy adventure.

The novel is a virtuosic display of White's characteristic "wicked" humour.

She regarded her status as one of Sweden's best loved celebrities with characteristic quiet humor.

"I think it has a lot of Twain's characteristic humor in it," she said.

This he did with characteristic good humour, telling an audience of farmers: "It's a lovely day.

"That old fox Thul has led us on a merry chase," the first officer noted without any of his characteristic good humor.

Motilal Rajvansh said on his screen career with characteristic humour.

"If anybody is going to protest against me, at least I want them to do so with style," he once said, with characteristic good humor.