Characterize

Clarity, pertinence, and reasonableness again characterize Weil's writing, and a hefty clutch of recipes concludes. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The use of it in the way you characterize is exactly as you note, and actually injects the writer’s POV into the piece. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nineteenth-and early twentieth-century writers used the term to characterize abnormalities of language production (e.g., paraphasic speech, speech without content, neologisms), rather than to define aberrant concept formation and abstraction (e.g., unable to recognize the basic category of such objects as apples and pears), which also are observed in schizophrenics. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

(i) What, if anything, would in physical terms characterize backward causation? ❋ Faye, Jan (2005)

MEADE: They kind of characterize themselves as tech heads so to speak, so they were fascinated. ❋ Unknown (2008)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, in addition to trying to respond to many of the issues and concerns and questions that you and indeed the whole world has, let me just kind of characterize how our university is trying to cope and during the process of questions and statements by Dr. Heinz (ph) and Dr. MacNamee (ph), I hope that you'll get a little flavor of that. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What can you -- can you kind of characterize for us what was remarkable about the investigation? ❋ Unknown (2001)

Are you able to kind of characterize what happened over the weekend and where you think things stand for the next day or so? ❋ ITY National Archives (2000)

And were you able to kind of characterize what happened over the weekend and where you think things stand for the next day or so? ❋ Unknown (2000)

Q Can you kind of characterize his demeanor as he spoke to you? ❋ ITY National Archives (1998)

Q: Can you kind of characterize his demeanor when he spoke to you? ❋ ITY National Archives (1998)

I mean, is he going to urge -- I mean, can you kind of characterize how he's going to talk about -- ❋ ITY National Archives (1998)

One question I had wanted to ask you was to kind of characterize your family's social and economic status when you were growing up. ❋ Unknown (1986)

How mean then it must be to reproach the unfortunate slave with a lack of intellectual qualities, such as characterize men generally. ❋ Various (N/A)

By visual examination one may detect the presence of various swellings or enlargements, such as characterize bruises and strains of tendons where inflammation is acute. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

I believe the strongest and most satisfactory way to meet it and, at the same time, the fittest way to end this book, will be to close with an analysis of the Soldier-Life, from which it will appear how natural and normal it is, that elements and forces, such as characterize that life, should produce men and deeds and scenes and incidents such as I have endeavored to portray in the foregoing pages. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Notwithstanding Owl's Head is in Canada, the birds, as I soon found, were not such as characterize the "Canadian Fauna." ❋ Bradford Torrey (1877)

It was an age of spiritual and physical distress, of manifold and violent disruptions; such as characterize those critical epochs in the history of the world at which, from the dissolution of all existing things, a new creation is about to unfold itself. ❋ 1789-1850 (1870)

He was too true to himself, however, to advocate any marked distinctions of classes in the laws, such as characterize the present school-laws of Virginia. ❋ Unknown (1856)

My excursions among the hills brought before me many interesting geological specimens, mostly such as characterize the Divide. ❋ Unknown (1841)