But with the moderation and politeness that characterises a literary festival.
The euro zone has always had only a faint version of the solidarity that characterises a true union.
If this characterises a moment of change for black British artists and writers, it is very welcome.
There is nothing here of that melodrama of overstatement that characterises a certain brand of contemporary writing.
Yet it usefully characterises a central character who draws us into sympathy despite doing things that should appal us.
Dahl offered a fun but also seriously dark counter narrative to the wholesomeness and light that characterises a lot of children's literature, and I love him for it!
Only the last of these words normally characterises a smell, but the unlikely pressing of these adjectives conveys the narrator's distaste.
Even SyCo minions have to concede that Inglis's summary dismissal is only a marginally less elegant version of the naked manipulation that characterises a Cowell show.
Hollingsworth, for one, is not surprised: "Tanni has that restless energy that characterises a lot of world-class athletes, and she has that knowledge and understanding of the wider world.
La Machine was a much more traditional carnivalesque parade, with the set-piece reliance on smoke, water and flame that characterises a great deal of large-scale outdoor work, but with a bigger budget - £1.8m - and much more kit.
Almost everything that characterises a modern state – a professional civil service, a genuinely independent judiciary, representative institutions with real powers, an efficient business class, and, of course, civilian control of the military forces and the police – has been lacking.
