Significantly, if you are looking for clues as to who might be on this year's Booker shortlist, the novels of Jacobson and Barnes have been praised with characteristic perspicacity by one of the judges, the critic and literary editor David Sexton.
Murray praised the subtle characteristics of the parallel universe, the action scenes, and the use of split-screens to visually show Milo's predictions.
He further praises her "characteristic far-sightedness", when she ensures the future of her children with Shantanu by indirectly disposing of the crown prince Bhishma.
On the plus side, the C5's handling characteristics were praised by reviewers.
While the bulbs will be praised for their energy-saving characteristics and long lives, most consumers will immediately think, "These things look weird".
And of course there's the $23,995 Subaru WRX, which, yes, yes, we made fun of when we first reviewed it, but we also praised it for superb driving characteristics and an excellent power train.
The very characteristics that students praised about the course are criticized in the literature on cognitive research for failing to require higher-order thinking, such as the transfer of knowledge to novel situations (Bransford et al., 2000).
In Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), Putnam claimed that the American tendency to form citizen groups, a characteristic that Tocqueville praised, was weakening.
He shook hands, took photos, signed autographs, and praised the meal -- all characteristic of the former president.
Characteristics that would be praised in a man but sadly still carry negative connotations for a woman.
