Balazs, along with Bence Palfi and Zoltan Kekecs, two other psychology researchers at Eotvos Lorand University, gathered a sample of stories — 180 in all — from news sites, blogs, forums and other publicly available literature in which an action was described that might be characterised as stupid.
In what might be characterised as a negative feedback loop, this meddling has been fed by, and has in turn helped to feed, a general impulse towards the re-regulation of business.
And the Republic is undergoing a remaking itself, so radical that it might be characterised as an identity crisis.
His focus on children's social and social services might be characterised as calculating, opaque, a liability and dissembling (cold).
Deborah Pritchard's violin concerto, Wall of Water, was inspired by a visit to Hambling's studio, and might be characterised as an attempt to capture the sound of the paintings.
In fact, English Passengers is a distinguished addition to a vein of post-war British writing that has featured in the literary prize lists these 30 years or more: a spreading clump of historical fiction whose underlying assumption might be characterised not as "my country, right or wrong" but, quite simply, as "my country, wrong".
It is one of the more remarkable aspects of American political culture that Mr Murray's position might be characterised as a "populist" one, while liberal efforts to, say, provide every poor and working-class American with health insurance are seen as elitist and condescending.
Long-term relationships might be characterised as those that involve couples who share a firm commitment.
On the one hand, our participants' transnational couple relationships might be characterised as an individualised intimate space.
(Rawls's "limited altruism" in the "circumstances of justice" seems derived from Hume, and so might be characterised as a conservative feature of Rawls' thought).
