Sentence examples for had characterised from inspiring English sources

Where was the cut and thrust that had characterised their progress?

The symbolist writer Merezhkovsky, piqued, had characterised all futurists as boors.

He painted with the concern for structure and surface that had characterised his earlier work.

Mr Hain had characterised that official position as "euro-caution" as he said: "There are two untenable positions.

There was none of the careerist reticence that had characterised his first Champions League win with Porto.

My own children did not hear her sing the silly songs that had characterised so much of my own childhood.

Clark declined to express regret at the aggressive language that had characterised the planning row up to now.

The "creative ambiguity" which had characterised earlier stages of the peace process was no longer useful, said Mr Blair.

Initially he kept up the façade of bravado which had characterised his performance in pre-trial hearings.

Incompetence and disarray had characterised the previous government, which had presided over a series of economic and political crises.

Sumption notes that, at an earlier hearing in the same case, the high court had characterised objections by Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, as irrational.