The secondary office of verbs of utterance is to characterize the manner of speech, and here it is well not to be too extreme.
A comparative absence of grammatical inflexions, and a disproportionate preponderance of monosyllabic words, characterize the language of China.
Two points characterize the theory that it exhibits; but as the publication of the paper in extenso, is contemplated, I merely state what they are.
The marquis had, however, started, on September 18, on his tour round the world, leaving an advice to his party that a friendly neutrality should characterize its attitude toward the cabinet.
Criminal anthropologists have been especially earnest in their endeavours to define this pernicious type and to determine the physiological and physiognomical features, which characterize and constitute it.
Hence arose the proverbial phrase Schweinfurter Sauhenker (Schweinfurt sow-hangman), used to characterize a low and lawless ruffian and vile fellow of the baser sort.
It contains the greater number of the fossil shells which characterize the Paris basin.
At Claiborne in Alabama no less than four hundred species of marine shells, with many echinoderms and teeth of fish, characterize one member of this system.
Military men characterize the German force which is moving across Belgium as overwhelming, saying it consists of at least two or three army corps.
The processes were pressed with that strange blend of industry, stupidity, mendacity and cunning which characterizethe Prussian and all his acts.
Mrs. Stowe will pardon me if I should perchance, inferentialy saddle on her some things, that will make the vital fluid curdle in her veins; unless she is dead to all those emotions of soul which characterize her sex.
The African possesses none of that sensitiveness--that acuteness of sensibility--that delicacy and refinement of taste, whichcharacterize the white race.
It is thus that men are frequently drawn into churches, by appeals to the worst passions and propensities that characterize the human heart.
The physiognomy, the form, and the stature of Buddha are as distinctly Ethiopic as they are different from those which characterize the various tribes which inhabit either the western or eastern parts of the Asiatic continent.
Is this notion individualistic, socialistic, or how would youcharacterize it?
Those words which characterize the habitual are usually regarded as having essentially unequivocal meanings.
This individualistic impulse, and not the sociological motive of struggle, will consequently characterize such cases.
Under what conditions would Dewey characterize the following social relations as society: master and slave; employer and employee; parent and child; teacher and student?
This tendency was strikingly shown to characterize the entire German Empire when its six million school children were examined under Virchow's direction.
From a study of several hundred cases she defined certain will patterns which apparently characterize types of individuals.
The vegetable and animal natural process begins, at any rate, with the contact of heterogeneous elements which we characterize as sexual cells (gametes).
A sturdy German egoism must characterize all political action.
And our attention will first be attracted by a consideration which promises to bring us in the most direct way to a proof that libidinal ties are what characterize a group.
These magazines are in the watchful and trained care of their original editors, and the same purity, strength, and sparkle characterize each number from month to month, from year to year.
It is not an abuse of language to characterizethe North as realizing the ultra theory of popular government.
Of such devotion and self-abnegation, a sanguine and resolute spirit was the natural product, and it is a paltry view of such qualities to characterize them as the proof of defective intellect.
It would be impossible tocharacterize the conduct of this official in terms of extravagant severity.
I wish to speak only of the fervency which fire represents as it shouldcharacterize our lives.
Sometimes there is not the love for the brethren that should characterize us.
Illustration] The periods when the teeth whichcharacterize the fifth year make their appearance, must now be described.
What peculiarity in reference to fossils will characterize the deep-sea deposits?
The cause of the volcano and earthquake is therefore the same, though the phenomena which characterize them are different.
In a few instances remains of fishes have been found, but they by no means characterize the system.
At this time his inquiries seem to have taken the direction which ultimately led him to the discoveries that characterize his name.
How shall we attempt to characterize this movement?
I make these remarks merely to characterize the treaty and prepare the way for its consideration.
There is almost no connected plot in it and hardly any action, but there is the same incisive character-drawing and clear etching of conditions that characterize the earlier work.
Nor should I leave unwritten that in the house of our host there were set before us champagne and fine liqueurs with the profusion and splendor that characterize the well-known capitalist.
Are there any words to fitly characterize such treatment as this from a great, powerful, rich nation, to a handful of helpless people?
What words could characterize such a transaction between man and man?
This work, although possessing several features peculiar to itself, has others closely resembling those that characterize the works bordering the Gulf.
It has the casing of pebbles and gravel which characterize the altar-mounds, but has no sand layer, except a thin stratum resting immediately on the deposit contained in the altar.
Since time and space "characterize possibilities" as well as actualities, it follows as a matter of course "that they are of the nature of eternal truths, which relate equally to the possible and to the existing.
Resolve that you will not live wrongly; characterize that way as it should be characterized, as an improper, unmanly, mean, or unbefitting way for you.
Particular and relative necessity are merely the absolute and general necessity viewed in the particular individual and relation:--the terms characterize only the manner of our view.
But even where it affirms liberty to exist, there is no new feature to characterize it as liberty.
Now this philosophical necessity Edwards does hold to characterize the connexion of motive and volition.
