He was characterised as someone who just said rude things about people but he had a hugely generous and inspiring side".
A young black man brought up on a council estate in north London by his single mother, who had to work at three jobs to keep him and his two sisters in food and clothing, he was characterised by some sections of the press as "a former drug-dealing gang member".
However, speaking to Newsnight Mr Karzai dismissed the claim saying he was characterised in this manner "because where they want us to go along, we don't go along.
Rubio bristles when he is characterised, increasingly, as the best remaining hope of the Republican mainstream.
Unlike his Night on Bald Mountain, which represented an impressive ziggurat-like structural monolith onstage, Lutton's Hanging Rock is not depicted so literally; he's characterised the mysterious landscape that obsesses, possesses and disappears the girls as a metaphoric darkness.
Khan, whose pure ring skills are often ignored because he is characterised as just the fastest gun in the sport, could be so alert to the possibility of catastrophe that he boxes at the very edge of his ability and comfortably outpoints a frustrated champion over 12 rounds.
The Portuguese controversialist will not mind one bit when he is characterised as the dark star of the game, deploying his resources with the aim of drawing his opponents into a hellish black hole, happy to finish a crucial match with his nine surviving outfield players lined up in front of their own goalmouth as long as it provides him a result bolstering his own claims to immortality.
He is characterised as having "streetwise ways" and a "disarming smile".
On the contrary – and this is something that games, even today, attempt only very rarely – he's characterised by facial expressions and body language.
In modern times he is characterised as an archetype of the tragic sports hero, and as a symbol of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
