"I wasn't, in the beginning, trying to do anything except characterize a little phenomenon — but I found it growing, in response to a new need".
He opened with the need for a "certain rehabilitation" of former President Manuel Zelaya, which he did not define in detail but characterized as "a little more than amnesty".
Coach Tom Coughlin berated Schiano at midfield for what Manning — who threw for 510 yards, 3 yards short of Phil Simms's franchise record — characterized as "a little bit of a cheap shot".
STX arranged to pay Jennifer Lopez in the range of five hundred thousand dollars to star in a comedy that Fogelson characterized as "a little bit 'Working Girl' and a little bit a bunch of great J. Lo movies from fifteen years ago," and Will Ferrell roughly the same to star in a quirky, low-budget comedy about the pornographer Russ Meyer.
Chris: I'd characterize it a little differently — the new Nexus 7 is a great generalist tablet.
One of the novel's most exasperated reviewers, Daniel Mendelsohn, characterized "A Little Life" as a hallmark of "a culture where victimhood has become a claim to status," hypothesizing that the "unending parade of aesthetically gratuitous scenes of punitive and humiliating violence" must appeal to readers by "confirming their preexisting view of the world as a site of victimization".
Even though the messages had little substance -- one characterized an investment as "the most undervalued stock ever" -- investors rushed in.
Inventions and new technology have contributed to these improvements in life expectancy but have also, unfortunately, promoted a lifestyle characterized by little physical activity.
Some officials and family members characterized the little girl as a kind of reverse Elián González, the Cuban boy who survived a treacherous ocean crossing to Florida two years ago, before being returned to Cuba in the wake of demands by his father and officials there.
On the other hand, the long-term stability of a plumbing system (characterized by little change in erupted magma compositions) relates to decreasing eruption rates.
Attempts to characterize deconstruction got a little better than that, but not much.
