The pages that are not characterised by bitterness and bile do not make gripping reading.
Stage four, the depressive stage, is more often than not, characterised by the dissolution of a band.
Tellingly, a wedding is not characterised as an opportunity to be a queen, and to enjoy the perhaps more distinguished, and potent, form of regality that implies.
Academic economics, in any flavour or school of thought, is not characterised by steady scientific progress just because economists wish it were so.
OCD affects up to 1.2 million people in the UK, and despite popular understanding, it's not characterised by orderliness, cleanliness or germ-phobia.
Participants are not characterised as employees, and are therefore denied rights and protections taken for granted by other workers, including health and safety laws, workers compensation, superannuation, leave, unfair dismissal, and anti-discrimination protections.
Any pretence of human connection between the Americans and the Iraqis not characterised by ultraviolence or the threat of it is dismissed by one particular carefully crafted scene where the (anti?)hero sneaks out of the Green Zone to chase a suspect.
According to the BBC's Once Upon A Time In New York: The Birth Of Hip Hop, Disco And Punk, it wasn't that the Big Apple of the 1970s was not characterised by its world of opportunities - but by its lack of them.
But anyone who witnessed the melee at half-time, Mourinho's ejection to the stands and the sheer histrionic mayhem of the Real-Barça first leg will have worked out by now that this epic rivalry is not characterised by patience and cool calculation.
Thus, the researchers behind them are either not characterised or acting as simple employees.
Centrilobular emphysema, although not characterised by the presence of "true" cysts, may occasionally mimic other interstitial lung diseases expressed by a cystic pattern.
