Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

A ridiculously inadequate military intelligence had been the prime characteristic of the United States as a power all through its history.

And yet one of the prime characteristics of Shakespeare's art is the touch of the real.

This is a prime characteristic.

An iron will and unflagging strength of spirit had always been Athor's prime characteristics.

The exceptionally broad wings are one of the prime distinguishing characteristics of this species.

Wasn't ignorance the prime characteristic of the bottom layers of dictatorships everywhere?

Slight variations in the initial population yield dramatically different results over time, a prime characteristic of chaos.

A delicious, inimitable ambling motion is their prime characteristic.

Thomas Cardif was a man of 2 worlds and each world had imparted to him its prime characteristics.