"I was fated to be world champion," he explains, with an odd but characteristic mixture of forcefulness and merriment.

At 44, Orhan Pamuk is, as he reminds you with a characteristic mixture of provocation and naivete, very famous.

The movie musical has not so much died as migrated, taking with it the genre's characteristic mixture of sophistication and wholesomeness.

Australia is preparing for the celebration of its bicentennial on Tuesday with a characteristic mixture of flamboyance and self-doubt.

Already the crowd evinced what would remain its characteristic mixture: urban hipsters mingled with cheerful humans indigenous to the roommates' native South.

Those of plant origin also contain characteristic mixtures of unesterified hydrocarbons.

With a characteristic mixture of self-deprecation and pride, Hughes still occasionally calls himself the "teen king."

Wendy receives the news with a characteristic mixture of sympathy and amusement.

To all of these he replied with a characteristic mixture of patience and that sort of rationality, which in some rational people tends to be impatience.

The resulting deposit is a characteristic mixture of pumice and rockier material.