Quotes About Characterize

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Home should be a haven of love. Honor, courtesy, and respect symbolize love and characterize the righteous family.

It's the oldest trick in Washington - when presented with a policy solution you don't like, characterize it as the bogeyman.

But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt vanity that characterize a spurned lover, and these unworthy sentiments helped me to keep my distance.

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'

am reluctant to characterize Americans as special in any regard, because that has gotten us into so much trouble. Yet we may

the concept of median used in medical research does not characterize a probability distribution.

But the Nixon Administration gave the press an identity of its own, separate from the public interest, and then began to characterize the press either as friendly or hostile or what have you.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

TABLE 1-1. Levels of the three variables that characterize four system traps (Holling et al. 2002; Allison and Hobbs 2004; Angeler et al. 2020). Capital Connectivity Resilience Rigidity trap High High High Poverty trap Low Low Low Eroding trap Low–eroding High High Isolation trap High Low–none Low

There are two main features and traits which characterize and constitute human existence. The first is self-transcendence—the fact that man is always reaching beyond himself, reaching out for meaning to fulfill, for other beings to encounter. The second is self-detachment, the intrinsically human capacity to rise above the level of somatic and psychic data, above the plane within which an animal being moves and to which an animal being is bound.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

If you dont know what life is—and you dont—then I'm not sure how you would characterize the absence of it.

Include just enough detail for flavor and interest but not enough to emphasize or single out a particular item above the importance it deserves. In other words, don't describe the shovel hanging on the garage wall unless someone is going to dig a grave with it later. An exception would be if your character is a neat freak and the garden tools on the garage wall are alphabetized—this would characterize.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

Call me what instrume you will,though you can fret me,yet you cannot play upon me.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.

My wit is often characterized as being Jewish comedy. Occasionally, that's true. But for the most part to characterize my humor as purely Jewish humor is not accurate. It's really New York humor. New York humor is not just Jewish humor. It has a certain rhythm. It has a certain intensity and a certain pulse.

Mikketz The beginning of our Sidra, which tells in what appears to be excessive detail of the two dreams of Pharaoh, invites a number of questions. Why are these dreams recounted in the Torah at such length? What can we learn from the differences between Pharaoh's dreams and the dreams of Joseph in last week's Sidra? Do they characterize some fundamental contrast between the worlds which Joseph and Pharaoh represent? And if so, what is the implication for us?

Political debate is often about how to identify and characterize the facts relevant to the controversy in question.