Dwight Eisenhower avoided the characterizing adjective, preferring to say that the state "continues to vindicate the wisdom of the principles on which this Republic is founded".
"In America, publishers could be five feet under water and people would pretend that they're breathing freely," Mr. Naumann said of other publishers whom he characterizes as preferring to talk in polite fiction about the state of the industry.
Dano was filled with what Paul Gianelli, one of John White's defense attorneys, called "a warped sense of chivalry" and Dano's godfather, Gregg Sarra, preferred to characterize as "valor, protecting a woman, honor".
Both the Eisenhower and the Kennedy Administrations, wary of intervention in what they preferred to characterize as a local matter, believed that voting fell within the purview of the federal government.
Wielding a glittering rapier — or a hatchet, as he preferred to characterize it — he lustily hacked away at a slew of targets, among them racism, colonialism, Thatcherism, academia and the aristocracy.
In a memorandum describing his conversations with British Ambassador Lord Halifax in 1942, Welles stated that he would have preferred to characterize the plebiscites supporting the annexations as "faked".
The former may be most appropriate to detect the presence of a lesion, whereas the latter is to be preferred to characterize the magnitude and extent of depletion in different animals.
The hosts typically prefer to characterize the conversations as journalists talking to sources.
