The developer did acknowledge two defaults but characterized them as insignificant.
I did not vilify the host but characterized him with amused detachment.
She did not give a precise figure, but characterized it as a "multimillion dollar buy".
John Adams, who resented him, conceded, "He had wit at will," and "talents for irony, allegory, and fable," but characterized his humor as "infantine simplicity".
The White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, also said Keating died a combat death, but characterized the overall mission in Iraq as something short of combat.
Jarvis said his lawyer, Robert Ades, met with the Wizards' Michael Jordan, the head of basketball operations, yesterday but characterized the discussions as informational.
The state report did find elevated levels of arsenic in the Kettleman City water system, but characterized those levels as common in well-water sources.
Some societies practiced a social form of outlawry on people not even accused of an offense but characterized by some manner of physical or mental abnormality.
An AT&T spokesman said yesterday that the company had gotten some calls and e-mail messages about the news reports, but characterized the volume as "not heavy" and said there were responses on both sides of the issue.
He opened with the need for a "certain rehabilitation" of former President Manuel Zelaya, which he did not define in detail but characterized as "a little more than amnesty".
Well, he has set himself up as a coach to a half-dozen other chief executives, whom he won't identify but characterized as "all winners" who want him to hone their leadership skills.
