Together, they rise above the tick-tocks and polemics that characterize too much of the United States' political writing.
Largely avoiding the tropes that characterize too many balletic interpretations of Spanish music, "Solo" uses the music as a bass line to exalt the dancer's extraordinary lightness, which is accentuated by a diaphanous white costume.
Edward routinely subjects Bella to the same kind of emotional whiplash, control, stalking, disrespectful speech, and physical intimidation that characterize too many girls' and women's lives in the real world.
This formulaic approach characterized too much of the gala, which honored the company's 70th anniversary.
Although his career since 1976 has had its points of brilliance, it has been characterized, too, by a tantalizing absence of momentum.
Instead of conducting a blunt, honest examination of the hard choices and necessary compromises that confront our country, he presented the sorts of rosy assumptions and slippery generalizations that have characterized too much of this election.
And while the two men take different approaches to similar material (the more formally bold Mr. Greengrass shatters movie space like glass), each embraces an ethos that's at odds with the no pain, no gain, no brain mind-set that characterizes too many such flicks.
Ms. Trinh Thi and Ms. Despentes, whose novel, also called "Baise-Moi," was characterized too by its raw depiction of sex and violence, said that it was clear from the beginning that the story demanded real sex and that they did not anguish over their decision to show it all.
It was more about us, the folks who try to control the narrative – the ones who package the who's-up, who's-down, he-said, she-said coverage that characterizes too much of campaign reportage – than about the voters and what they really need to know to make an informed choice.
More than anything, Egypt now needs to develop that kind of culture of dialogue, of peaceful and respectful arguing — it was totally suppressed under Mubarak — rather than rock-throwing, boycotting, conspiracy-mongering and waiting for America to denounce one side or the other, which has characterized too much of the postrevolutionary political scene.
Taunting opponents has always been ingrained in competitive sports and was an inevitable part of the wider gamesmanship that characterized too much of this year's tournament.
