Sentence examples for that characterised her from inspiring English sources

Titmuss's influence is evident in the close interest in administration that characterised her work throughout her life.

The bold choices that characterised her campaign wardrobe made Michelle Obama a fashion icon even before the election.

She encouraged musical integrity and the beautiful singing tone that characterised her own playing, and continued to be a sought-after mentor to many young pianists.

But that relaxed demeanour belied the rich, sensuous and idiosyncratic virtuosity that Brown and her company deployed, as they executed the luscious ripples, off kilter balances and daring swerves of direction and speed that characterised her new works.

The dark wit that characterised her previous novels, Disobedience and The Lessons, runs through this book as an undercurrent, but The Liars' Gospel shows the hand of a mature novelist, a daring and accomplished work on a broad canvas.

And while the show will follow Turner from her difficult childhood in Nutbush, Tennessee, in the 1940s and 1950s to the 1980s resurgence that made her one of the world's biggest rock stars, we can also expect the bullying and beatings that characterised her 16-year marriage to the guitarist and bandleader Ike Turner.

In the cascading sentences and florid prose that characterises her writing, Blanch recreated (detractors would say concocted) history and its atmosphere: a synergy of fact and description, imaginative elan, and the penetration of a sharp and empathetic mind.

Palin's delivery of the keynote speech at this weekend's Tea Party convention in Tennessee was a reminder that it was not, and is not likely to ever be, substance nor innovative ideas that characterise her mainstream political career.

On the other hand, he thought a newspaper article by Dayan's daughter, Yael, "very well balanced... with none of the arrogance that characterises her father's references to Arabs".

I instantly felt a kinship for Scarlett Johansson's Charlotte, the lost girl, who is unable to do the gushy, lovey sort of thing that characterises her husband and his friends, and is unfairly maligned because of it.

It's the same tonal deafness that characterises her description of a man from Chalk Farm, north London, in whom she puts a great deal of store, a "bodyworker" who attempts, through massage, to re-engage sexually traumatised women and who, Wolf relates in the book with a straight face, once saw an image of the Virgin Mary in a vagina.