Use "be characteristic of" in a sentence

1. But there was always another possibility: if Thutmekri could get his hands on the hoard, it would be characteristic of the man to cheat his employers, steal the jewels for himself and decamp, leaving the Zembabwan emissaries holding the sack

2. Everything that should be characteristic of a dean--patience, courtesy, kindliness, has been stripped off him by his eagerness to propose and the impossibility of doing it