Sentence examples for when he characterizes from inspiring English sources

Michael J. Burke Stoneham, Mass., Dec. 8, 2008 • To the Editor: Ross Douthat is out of touch with this country when he characterizes abortion bans and mandatory parental involvement as "compromise".

Plus, he is, as he admits in the essay, a little off when he characterizes certain matters of contemporary coolness; he doesn't seem to know, for example, that every hipster kid halfway worthy of the name is in Berlin right now, not Paris.

For instance, he rejects birtherism, the contention that Obama was born in Kenya and is hence not an American citizen; but he replaces it with a back-door, or metaphorical, birtherism when he characterizes Obama as an alien being, as a fifth-column party of one who has pretended to be an American, and technically is one, but really is something else.

Even Mr. Knittle, who in one show played Bill Clinton singing "Go Away Little Girl" to Ms. Hatch's Monica Lewinsky, echoes the movie's take when he characterizes Mr. Cilman's musical taste: "Whatever we told our kids to turn down or turn off, he gives us".

The attentive reader of TMS will have noticed this earlier: when he characterizes propriety as lying between the excess and defect of passion (27), for instance, or when he distinguishes the restraint of appetite out of self-interest from the virtue of temperance (28), or when he emphasizes habit (152, 324), or the superiority of friendships of virtue over friendships of pleasure (224 5).

It is the task of philosophy to identify these a priori principles in all the different spheres of culture, including politics, biology, art, history, etc. Helmuth Plessner captures metaphorically the spirit of Neo-Kantianism when he characterizes the Neo-Kantians as "botanists in the garden of the a priori" (Plessner 1974, 185).

Sen Goldwater had a point when he characterized Johnson's acceptance speech as "isolationist".

Mr. Nocera got it right when he characterized such an erasure as "Soviet-style".

"The mayor threw down the gauntlet when he characterized us trade unions as being greedy and self-serving," said Arthur Cheliotes, president of Local 1180, which represents 8,000 supervisors and middle managers.

Radiohead did snap at Yago once or twice, as when he characterized "Amnesiac" as "a collection of outtakes from the 'Kid A' sessions," and Selway shot back, "Try again!" But the mood was relaxed, for the most part.

Mayor William Kelly of Asharoken certainly didn't mince words when he characterized Jet Skiers as an "emotion-laden group of people who want instant gratification" ["For Jet Skiers, a Little Less V-r-r-o-o-o-o-m!" July 22].