A similar crudity is present in the characterization of what is called "Western civilization".
That is not, however, an accurate characterization of what is in the report.
The judges' characterization of what she said and did indeed sounds pretty bad.
In overturning that ruling, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's majority opinion rejected the court's characterization of what the provision accomplished.
Others wondered if Mr. Savoy's practice of allowing would-be explorers to pay to accompany him might have embellished his characterization of what they found.
U.S. officials provided a different characterization of what occurred, saying that American personnel had immediately expressed their objections to the Turkish plans when they were notified.
The problem, such criticisms suggest, is that Berlin too sharply outlined a "negative" liberalism, a characterization of what liberalism should not be.
Commissioner Kelly, who is not being called to testify, said in remarks to reporters on Monday that Senator Adams's characterization of what he said was "absolutely, categorically untrue".
And that is an apt characterization of what I will describe tonight -- a dull, boring way to be a better investor than many of your friends.
In "The Last of the Wine," Socrates, faced with an earnest, if pretentious, student, resorts to "teasing him out of his pomposities"—as canny a characterization of what it's like to teach freshmen as any I know of.
But most devastating of all is his characterization of what he calls Fog Facts: bits of truth (for example, that big oil owns the White House) that are in plain sight but somehow invisible.
