When she was informed of the full story in the 1970s, she was characteristically unflappable, taking it "all very calmly and without surprise", according to the declassified files released to the National Archives.

“The word stops, the heart dies / The wind counts the lost goodbyes,” goes one characteristically haunting stanza.

Queen Elizabeth II met many Indigenous leaders and she was characteristically careful with her words.

But Harris, a “quantitative thinker” who had delved into the numbers, was characteristically unmoved, the advisor said.

Harley is characteristically a longstanding villain in the DC universe and a part of her appeal is that her actions are morally questionable.