Sentence examples for once characterised from inspiring English sources

Her writing radiates the "innocence and romanticism" that once characterised popular culture but has, she notes with regret, been lost.

Australia's music scene was once characterised by rock bands but, like the country's population itself, it is becoming increasingly diverse.

Mr Cameron, who once characterised that party as consisting of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists", will refuse.

That's how David Cameron once characterised Britain, as he set out his vision to "defuse the demographic timebomb" and use its energy to power the country forward.

This trust-corporation configuration allows assets to be transferred back and forth in what Forbes once characterised as a "shell game extraordinaire".

I sat around the house wanking.'" Last month, on stage at Koko in London, their set prompted the kind of abandoned pogoing that once characterised punk gigs.

The relatively narrow focus that might once have characterised the festival is very much a thing of the past, and "Celtic" in this context is less about geography and culture and more a state of mind.

In one – Universe A – we find tightly knit groups of newspaper editors and expensive lawyers trying to persuade a judge that details of the sexual relations between sundry celebrities and a cast of characters once memorably characterised by a Glasgow lawyer as "hoors, pimps and comic singers" should (or should not) be published in the public prints.

The word 'racist' is used once to characterise comments by Gandhi early in his stay in South Africa... the chapter in no way concludes that he was a racist or offers any suggestion of it".

And in finance, once a profession characterised by testosterone-fuelled braggadocio, a generation of brilliant nerds built the models that provided a pseudo-scientific foundation for the tower of debt whose collapse has buried us all.

In an influential 1992 essay, Fandom as Pathology, US academic Joli Jensen observed: "Fandom is seen as a psychological symptom of a presumed social dysfunction… Once fans are characterised as a deviant, they can be treated as disreputable, even dangerous 'others'".