He began by thinking he would write about the wives and mistresses of Picasso, the way the artist used art and sex, painting and making love, as metaphors for each other and how the style of his work changed as he changed women--volatile relationships that Dora Maar, herself one of the mistresses, characterized to him as 'first, the plinth, then the doormat".
Andrew Colyer-Worrsall, Percival's nephew, characterized him to the BBC as "an ordinary man who did his duty".
This left it up to his critics (John Adams called him an "indefatigable and unprincipled intriguer") to characterize (and mischaracterize) him, and left him a bit of an intellectual orphan in the history of American ideas.
"I think it's unfair to the captain to characterize him -- based on one incident -- that he's a poor supervisor," Mr. Driscoll said, adding that the behavior of the officers on Saturday was an "anomaly".
At the time Mr. Dobbs was characterized by people close to him as a potential hire for the Fox Business Network.
While not going so far as to characterize him as sexually dysfunctional, it implies that if Darren tried to make love to her, he probably couldn't; if he pounced on Annie like a tiger, she would respond in kind.
He has never managed anything remotely close to a high volume manufacturing company so to characterize him as a pragmatic manufacturer is a real stretch.
In a postscript published after Gill died, John Updike characterized him as "avidly alert to the power of art in general".
During his first surge in the polls late last year, columnists from George Will to Peggy Noonan, who characterized him as an "angry little attack muffin," cast doubt on Gingrich's leadership credentials.
A Yahoo Koreaa commercial, for example, is followed by "102," a brief visual presentation of scenes of Seoul by the French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in which he stresses certain colors that to him characterize each scene.
One puzzle about Reichenbach's view of conventions is why characterizing them remained important to him, since they are, in his mature view, only a feature of the reconstruction of a theory, not an intrinsic logical or semantical feature of any proposition.
