Scorsese begins the same way, but in color, and instantly we get a sense of the film's characteristic look.

A "trademark look" is an informal term for a characteristic look for a performer or character of some sort.

They had all looked somewhat alike, and perhaps this is the characteristic look of the paratrooper.

By at least 1913, the association between slim adolescence and a certain characteristic look became fixed in the public's mind.

There was a characteristic look to an animal attack.

The front dentary teeth fanned out, giving the animal a characteristic look.

Adults' feathers are black with a white edge, giving the characteristic mottled look.

With a characteristic look of secret sorrow.

Before that, an early-20th-century building boom, lasting from 1897 until the Depression, gave the campus its now characteristic Gothic look.

These combined with turtle necked shirts and flower-prints to form the characteristic 1970s look.