acquired character

The stadium isn’t old enough to feel outdated but is old enough to have acquired character.

“Manuel is a complete midfielder and he’s acquired character over the years,” Ranieri said.

But, liking or disliking of certain foods being only an acquired character, it is not easy to covert the minds through their taste buds, palates, and stomachs.

If an abnormal epigenetic factor be applied during development, whether to the embryo in utero, to the developing child, or in after life, abnormality of some kind will appear in the bone, and such an abnormality is a good type of what is spoken of as an “acquired” character.

He did not choose, however, to let his design become apparent, and therefore approached his object with a careful art, which was not a part of his natural, but rather of his acquired character.