How To Use Characterisation In A Sentence
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This isn't helped a great deal by the characterisation of Lady Teazle: rather than manipulative coquettishness we get a slightly nervous adolescent.
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Would you be "boggled" if I suggest that the characterisation of blacks here as a mob of rampaging gang-rapists is a product of prejudice and, in its emotional manipulation, serves to reinforce prejudice?
Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
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We have introduced some basic components which would be required in a characterisation of the topic framework for any discourse fragment.
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This realism is in part due to the elaborate set and costume design, but also to Campbell's unfaltering characterisation of Morgan.
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Recent linguistic work on characterisation has used the principles and analytical techniques of pragmatics and discourse analysis to considerable effect.
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Few claimants will want to attract the social stigma which attaches to a characterisation of a person as disabled.
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The enormity of biological resources makes a case for raising a whole cadre of highly trained professionals for inventorisation, characterisation and documentation.
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The characterisation of magic as a semiotic skill has, in fact, resulted in a back-reading whereby it becomes symbolic of semiotic skill itself -- a metonym of the power of language, of consciousness, of "spirit".
Archive 2008-07-01
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Conventional characterisations of the F.A.T.A. as ‘lawless areas’ misses the point that the Pakistani constitution quarantees their autonomy and self-rule under the tribal jagir system.
What’s really happening in NW Pakistan
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Although it has a superficial sheen, the film is mired in structural errors, weak plot contrivances and flimsy characterisation.
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We suggest that such a characterisation can be developed in terms of a topic framework.
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Court Masque, which mixed dancing with speech, was heavily larded with flattery of the Royal patrons and was notable for spectacular scenic effects but with little in the way of characterisation.
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That would involve a characterisation of those laws and there might well be difficulty in characterising those laws as anything other than penal, when one looks at the purpose of the laws.
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In our submission, that misconceives the characterisation of the loss.
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Their roles and personas can differ with the production, combination and utilisation of selected characterisations: in other words, creators are created.
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This plurality of approaches among contemporary artists mitigates against any singular characterisation.
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The cast approaches the material with relish and Polanski prevents broad characterisations and self-indulgence amongst his actors.
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However the first movie was adolescent nonsense, lacking in both characterisation and narrative.
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The special effects are pretty stunning - considerably better than in the first film - but the pacing is leaden, the characterisation pretty slapdash and threadbare and, well, it's still a bit long…
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The play's most penetrating moments occur when Ensler veils her disgust and sorrow at the lengths some women will go to to achieve physical perfection, under a veneer of sharp characterisation and acerbic wit.
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Dietetic recommendations aimed at the cultivation of mind were replaced around the middle of the century by characterisations of polite urban eaters as valetudinarians and the creation of a market for health advice and products.
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It marries well with the extreme storytelling and characterisation to give the film a flavour of operatic grandeur.
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I am quite conscious of the various approaches to characterisation, and where I fit into that as a scriptwriter.
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Yet there's been this characterisation that they're all bludging, and that they find this [benefit] to be a safe haven.
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Few claimants will want to attract the social stigma which attaches to a characterisation of a person as disabled.
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My approach to characterisation is not at all technical.
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His style shows strong characterisation in his sitters and an exquisite delineation of costume and jewellery.
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The critique, I contend, often commits the selfsame mistakes that have become an almost accepted characterisation of anthropological practice.
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The characterisation is rudimentary and the prose sometimes clunky.
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle – review
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His figures are made from reductive shapes - circles, squares, cones - that create a kind of shorthand of the body in much the same way that a cartoonist might employ characterisation techniques.
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In this small multi-talented cast comparisons are invidious, but Ben Stillman stood out for the remarkable range of his skills and the sharp definition he brought to his characterisations.
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It pushes all my buttons, in characterisation, worldbuilding, writing.
Reading is Fun(damental) at SF Novelists
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Some of them engage the viewer with their characterisation, although not many people are very likable, despite the skill the actors bring to their parts.
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The quality of Miéville's writing is often breathtaking, his skill at characterisation unsurpassed, but in many ways even more remarkable is his sheer inventiveness, the genius with which he creates and populates his fantastic world.
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It mixed stylised, stark movement, rhythmic ensemble sequences and wonderful characterisation.
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Why you call her speculations and gross simplifications/mischaracterisations âscienceâ is beyond me.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
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Over-cheesiness is avoided through a deft handling of plot and characterisation, which keeps everything moving and alive.
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It is a beautiful and well thought out characterisation and more effective to me than the rather barnstorming performance of Michael Feast in the same role at Chichester.
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This consociational characterisation not only fails to conform to reality but it is also aimed at preventing the emergence of a national identity.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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To locate the optimal drill site, the team had to conduct the first detailed characterisation of the physiography of a sub-glacial lake.
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He is a messy, carefree drunk, prone to loud outbursts, spontaneous characterisations and ad-lib renditions of whatever comes to his mind.
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Such difficulty as the case presented turned upon the characterisation of the facts rather than upon any ambiguity in the statute.
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Bisphosphonates synthesis and hydrophilicity characterisation
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Molecular characterisation of centrosomal components is slowly progressing.
Make The Leap - The Panda's Thumb
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ROBINSON, B. (1965) Characterisation and identification of harmidine as harmaline.
Chapter 5
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Thus published data do not support the characterisation of cannabis as a risk factor for mortality.
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But the fondness of the characterisation is deceptive: tonight, Brodkin never lets Nelson transcend the stereotype, never suggests that a sarf London geezer might have broader horizons than we expect.
Lee Nelson's Well Good Tour – review
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His broadbrush characterisations of male and female nature allow for little overlap, or ideas of 'social constructs'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The approach is old-fashioned, research slapdash, scholarship negligible, the judgments inane, the characterisation childish, the tone sick-makingly patriotic.
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Some of them engage the viewer with their characterisation, although not many people are very likable, despite the skill the actors bring to their parts.
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We have introduced some basic components which would be required in a characterisation of the topic framework for any discourse fragment.
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Local authority chiefs are insistent that the characterisation of councils as wasteful bureaucracies is wrong.
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He discovered characterisations of topological mappings of the Cartesian plane and a number of fixed point theorems.
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Yet it is the label’s Japanese releases that prove to be the most consistently enjoyable as they generally convey cultural insight through offbeat humour and quirky characterisation.
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Variance component analysis showed that at least two biopsy specimens should be evaluated per subject to allow a precise individual characterisation.
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A team led by Hans-Joerg Deiseroth in Siegen, Germany, reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie that the characterisation of the most conductive representative of the man-made argyrodite minerals was made of lithium, phosphorus, sulphur and bromine atoms.
Batteries that never needs recharging
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You are rewarded for the discovery and characterisation of the green fluorescent protein, for first expressing GFP in fluorescent form in important model organisms and for the development of GFP and its homologues to a universal set of genetic tags for protein localisation, protein movement and protein interactions in the cells of all types of organisms.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 - Presentation Speech
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That the film has been a smash hit in its homeland Sweden only proves that its characterisations are rock solid.
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That's an unfair characterisation though it's easy to see how Copland acquired such a reputation.
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Not to gloss over a comprehensive and really well-illustrated history, but I was most interested in his characterisation of the shifting relationship between humans and machines.
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Hammerstein's tendency towards thin characterisation, philosophical naivety and self-conscious poeticisms don't meet his pupil's exacting standards.
Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim – review
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In particular the careful characterisations Frank had given to Paul were force moulded into a more stereotypical character hero, and lost that sense of anti-hero ambiguousness.
The King of Sci-Fi Frank Herbert
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That may be an unfair characterisation of the recent news from crisis-stricken Latvia, but it is pretty much how outsiders see it.
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This vital missing ingredient leaves the characterisation grossly underdeveloped, and the plot, somewhat on the thin side.
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In places the characterisation is thin: Rovena, in particular, strays too close to a stock projection of male fantasy – a beautiful supplicant with sapphic tendencies, yet who ultimately remains obedient to one man, always offering herself up to him smelling fresh after prolonged bathroom preparations.
The Accident by Ismail Kadare
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It's rare to find a stand-up with such a gift for characterisation or such original and well-researched material.
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Nicely written sentences and a roller-coaster ending do not compensate for shallowness of meaning and lazy characterisation.
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This paper has largely presented many of the developments and outstanding issues encountered with the characterisation of in situ cementitious stabilisation of pavement materials.
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This is largely the failing of a vapid script that lacks both strong characterisations and poetry.
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The strength of the novel lies not only in the depiction of a detailed future of hardship and privation, but in the expert characterisation of Shah: a lone figure whose origins leave him open to prejudice within the police department, and whose problematic relationship with an intersexual courtesan reveals his own deep-seated prejudices.
Dark Matter, Clowns at Midnight, Damage Time and Version 43 - reviews
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It was the barbaric form of primitivism that the print media continually drew from in its characterisations of my research.
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The strength of female characterisation is a joy - though not extended to the men, who appear merely as feckless one-dimensional sex objects.
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Combine them with a dark, gripping story, rich characterisation, superb direction from Eastwood and you have a powerful, absorbing thriller.
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Everything, from the glaikit, Glaswegian characterisations to the physical comedy (more panto than farce), is tailored to the comic actor's public persona.
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Although some of the reviews complain that the film lacks Austen's social observation and complexity of characterisation, this just confirms my view that most film reviewers are rather stodgy.
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A team led by Hans-Joerg Deiseroth in Siegen, Germany, reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie that the characterisation of the most conductive representative of the man-made argyrodite minerals was made of lithium, phosphorus, sulphur and bromine atoms.
Batteries that never needs recharging
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It was a delightful characterisation, underpinned by that wonderfully dark and sepulchral voice, used musically and never overdone.
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A certain coarseness pervades the book, from the crude characterisation to the infantile wish-fulfilment, right down to the playground profanity.
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Peake’s use of the grotesque in characterisation is stylistic.
What Is Style?
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Characterisation has been sacrificed for the sake of spectacle.
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We have introduced some basic components which would be required in a characterisation of the topic framework for any discourse fragment.
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The cutscenes have been completely re-done and look fantastic, with some good comic characterisation in the animation.
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We have introduced some basic components which would be required in a characterisation of the topic framework for any discourse fragment.
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It's just not enough, though, because first, the characterisation is underdeveloped, and second, there is no attempt to establish an audience-character relationship.
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In accordance, characterisation of the hydrophilicity demonstrated a shift toward lipophilicity of the BP7033Br ALK compound (Log P values of − 0.75 versus − 031, respectively).
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This characterisation is problematic, as here Mehta is reinforcing the stereotype of docile, demure, and pristine femininity as the ideal form of South Asian womanhood.
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The second part is devoted to more practical studies, ranging from the characterisation of exotic interstellar molecules, the accurate determination of spectroscopic constants, excited states structures and EPR parameters through photochemical and charge-transfer processes, cluster chemistry and fullerenes, muonium chemistry, to the possible prediction of the response of materials to electric fields in view of nonlinear optical applications.
AvaxHome
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I think some of the characterisation is a little weeak, and almost naive, but the strong plot keeps you going to the end.
REVIEW: The Inverted World by Christopher Priest
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To locate the optimal drill site, the team had to conduct the first detailed characterisation of the physiography of a sub-glacial lake.
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The church denies this characterisation and "vigorously objects to the suggestion that Church funds inure to the private benefit of Mr Miscavige.
What happens when you try to leave the Church of Scientology?
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I mean the whole kit-and-kaboodle: the overall structure, and the narrative, the pacing and focalisation, the characterisation, the dialogue, the tone.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time (1990-2005)
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Lightowlers MW, Gauci CG, Chow C, Drew DR, Gauci SM, et al. (2003) Molecular and genetic characterisation of the host-protective oncosphere antigens of taeniid cestode parasites.
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It is realistic in plot, characterisation and story line and is well worth a read.
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How does one engage in this process of distillation or characterisation that you say must be undertaken?
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At the seminar three working parties discussed different topics: Physico-chemical characterisation of exposures.
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One strain produced a cytopathic effect consisting of vacuolation and this strain was sent to the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata for further characterisation.
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He is a messy, carefree drunk, prone to loud outbursts, spontaneous characterisations and ad-lib renditions of whatever comes to his mind.
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The different areas to be dealt during the two-day workshop would include acting techniques, characterisation and body language, emoting and voice modulation.
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The unsubtle characterisation is another problem - we know that the pub owner is a bully, because he is described with that word at almost every appearance.
March Books 6) Pomegranate Soup, by Marsha Mehran
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In fact, the film might have worked better if it had been made for the small screen, although with its sloppy characterisation and lifeless, wearisome narrative, it's arguable whether it should have been made at all.
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As far as characterisation is concerned, this one's interesting because in Prodigal Mage I already know some of them -- Asher and Dathne, for example.
Sunday morning giggle ...
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The film holds promise for those who are open to deriving their pleasure from characterisation rather than the more readily consumable series of events that popular films usually rely on to maintain interest.
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Coward himself gives a rather humourless performance as the Captain, hampering the characterisation with his clipped and affected speech delivery.
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No single characterisation or particular formulation of the rule enjoining judicial obedience to statute can supply answers in advance ... Questions 1.
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On the positive side, there is Shore's scrupulous instrumental characterisation, with a troubling French horn and a pure alto flute representing the moral struggle within the mysterious main character.
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Unfortunately, I think this is used as an excuse to reject the need for a comprehensible plot or characterisation.
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In this way the results of characterisation studies can be corroborated by alternative, and independent, measures of similarity.
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Apple's website, the labs consist of 17 antenna characterisation, or "anechoic", chambers that are used to measure overall antenna performance.
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