The phrase "as he characterises" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone's description or interpretation of a subject or concept.
Example: "The author presents a compelling argument, as he characterises the protagonist as a complex and flawed individual."
Alternatives: "as he describes" or "as he defines".
You don't want to hear that the market is going to go off a cliff". He finds climate sceptics – led by a "little army of non-scientific, persuasive loony lords", as he characterises them (a barely disguised reference to the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson and Ukip's Lord Monckton, both of whom promote, to varying degrees, climate-sceptic views) – a frustrating ideological phenomenon.
He finds climate sceptics – led by a "little army of non-scientific, persuasive loony lords", as he characterises them (a barely disguised reference to the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson and Ukip's Lord Monckton, both of whom promote, to varying degrees, climate-sceptic views) – a frustrating ideological phenomenon.
It is the sort of disc you can hand to a Waits novice or sceptic with the confidence that this collection of brawlers, bawlers and bastards (as he characterised the three-way split in his work on his 2006 compilation) will do the job of conversion.
Festen, for example, he characterises as, "an attempt to make something truthful and honest, that was breathing in a naked way".
The "troll-evoking design" he characterises as: "Effortless, consequence-free, transient anonymity in the service of a goal, such as promoting a point of view, that stands entirely apart from one's identity or personality.
Moore agrees, describing the composition as a "throwaway" while praising what he characterises as its "strong sense of harmonic direction".
McCartney describes Lennon's lyric as "sardonic" and "against the spirit of the song", which he characterises as "typical John".
The creative deficit of the city-state is evident to the author also in the Singaporeans' obsession with consumerism as a pastime, the homogeneity of the retailers and their fare, and in what he characterises as their other passion: dining (although he finds fault with the diversity of the food, it is, he remarks "something to write home about").
He now runs the Young Foundation which he characterises as 'a "do" tank rather than a "think" tank.' It is, of course - this being Mulgan - the future.
Williams says government's proposal is an advance on the current system, which he characterises as a "perversion of Australian democracy".
