The opposition is sometimes characterised as liberal.
Festen, for example, he characterises as, "an attempt to make something truthful and honest, that was breathing in a naked way".
It's clear that Mozilla isn't happy about this turn of events, and in our conversations, people there characterised it as something they'd been driven to by the entertainment companies and the complicity of the commercial browser vendors, who have enthusiastically sold out their users' integrity and security.
This is a rivalry often characterised as the "friendly derby", something that's overblown, and you'll hear just as much nastiness on the terraces during these games as any other, but there is some truth to the whole thing.
"There were some critics who were characterising me as something I wasn't," he says.
Maybe it's not "kind or gentle", but attempts by supposedly credible journalists to characterise it as something more sinister than a joke are laughable, if not offensive, given how willing they are to defend free speech when any other maligned group is in the firing line.
"Yeah, when I described it to people, they said [he adopts the sing-song voice of someone humouring a child]: 'Well, you know, we all do all kinds of things… and one day you will have done that and then you'll do something better…' "I felt happy to be doing something that may be characterised as subversive.
Allen said another Twitter furore involving the comic would immediately be characterised as "the BBC's Frankie Boyle says something horrific on Twitter".
(FG11) Some said that they could not fully trust the NHS, which they characterised as ' big and bureaucratic': the size and bureaucracy being something they linked with lack of ability to protect sensitive personal and health information.
But it was with Dayereh (The Circle) (2000), an absolute masterpiece, that the world noticed Panahi was up to something entirely distinct from what was now characterised as Iranian cinema.
