What characterized that book characterizes this one -- an urge to integrate multiple bodies of information, a skepticism that is turned as much against scientific certitude as it is against human illusions, a dark awareness of the tragic past wedded to what seems an unkillable optimism.
This book is characterized by a standard and effective chapter format that first sets out the basics of physiology and anatomy, then key aspects of technical and clinical management, and finally a brief summary of the main topics discussed in the chapter.
This passage is one of the most tone-deaf and self-absorbed in a book characterized by tone-deafness and self-absorption.
In 1995 Nansook Hong, the wife of his eldest son, Hyo Jin Moon, who at one time was Mr. Moon's heir apparent, broke from the family and wrote a book characterizing her husband as a womanizing cocaine user who watched pornographic movies and beat her, once when she was seven months pregnant.
P. J. Howorth, in The Wah Wah Book, characterized the main riff as "sinister".
The book, characterized as literary fiction, was well received by critics for both literary style and page-turning intrigue.
One 1902 book characterized The American Israelite as "the leading Jewish newspaper in the United States and the National Journal of the Jews".
Just last week, a presidential tweet, trying to allay the impact of James Comey's blistering new book, characterized federal law enforcement as "a den of thieves and lowlifes!" Some Americans might see all of this as theatre, but as The New York Times put it in a Monday editorial, "What can seem now like a political sideshow" can "instantly become a constitutional crisis".
Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book's subject as well as its substance, and that is "magisterial".
Consider the question of which themes and books characterize a literary era.
