Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.
I get tired of hearing some science-fiction fans saying that characterization isn't important in SF. In point of fact, I think it's probably more important in SF than in mainstream fiction. After all, if the author can't characterize humans well, he ...
That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.
By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that disco...
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or ...
I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.
Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
Pappy's Staff: The reason he's pullin' our pants down. Pappy's Staff: Gonna paddle a little behind. Pappy's Staff: Ain't gonna paddle it - gonna kick it, real hard. Pappy's Staff: No, I believe he's gonna paddle it. Pappy's Staff: I don't believe tha...
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.
