"characterized the response" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that has been described, outlined, or explained as having certain qualities. For example, "The mayor's public statement characterized the response to the disaster as overwhelmingly positive."
One church official in Rome characterized the response as "a typically Roman letter".
While we characterized the response of the microphones, we determined it was not vibration sensitive.
Correction: June 20 , 2003 Friday The obituary of Gregory Peck last Friday characterized the response to one of his movies, "Duel in the Sun" (1946), incompletely.
He characterized the response as stonewalling and said that considering all the additional power voted, "there is less reason for us to tolerate this stonewalling".
While many companies have restricted travel during this outbreak, and some airlines have temporarily suspended or reduced service to Mexico, where business travel had been falling off anyway, for the most part preparedness and caution have characterized the response.
He characterized the response of the 40,000 moviegoers who accepted his offer as enthusiastic but added that paid admissions on Saturday were not particularly high, though they improved on Sunday.
Even given the political calculations — insuring that this issue does not dominate the South Carolina primary, bringing a merciful end to the embarrassing chorus of mumbles that has characterized the responses of the G.O.P. Presidential candidates — it was an indelible scene.
Here, we characterized the responses of MB neurons to a change in airflow, a stimulus associated with odor perception.
GH and QZ characterized the responses of the pubic symphysis fibrocartilage and articular cartilage to the hormones.
We characterized the responses of some of the WRKY45-regulated genes to blast fungus infection in NB rice plants.
