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Her face wore an expression of mystic rapture like that characterizing the features of some Chinese Buddhas.
DOPESAX ROHMER
The characterizing details of some of the great fables, however, disappear in Mandeville's English.
AESOP DRESS'DBERNARD MANDEVILLE
This may seem like a purely formal and external mode of characterizing the development of philosophical thought.
A HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHYISAAC HUSIK
I am about to commence the making of mince-pies, with all the interesting sensations characterizing young enterprise or effort.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. I (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOT
The importance of accent as a unifying feature of the word is obvious in such English examples as unthinkable, characterizing.
LANGUAGEEDWARD SAPIR
Governor Brown of Georgia was refusing to obey orders from Richmond, and characterizing them as "despotic."
A SHORT LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLNJOHN G. NICOLAY
As in everything German, method was the characterizing feature of the airplane program they instituted.
THE ROMANCE OF AIRCRAFTLAWRENCE YARD SMITH
Every verse, every half verse, adds a characterizing circumstance, a vivifying image.
The unanimity characterizing its nomenclature is but another feature in the unvarying and universal popularity of the rose.
SEVENTY YEARS ON THE FRONTIERALEXANDER MAJORS
Otherwise, he will miss much that is significant and characterizing in their actions.
DRAMATIC TECHNIQUEGEORGE PIERCE BAKER
WORDS RELATED TO CHARACTERIZING
- anecdotic
- characteristic
- characterizing
- circumstantial
- classificatory
- clear
- definitive
- delineative
- depictive
- describing
- detailed
- eloquent
- explicative
- expository
- expressive
- extended
- graphic
- identifying
- illuminating
- illuminative
- illustrative
- indicative
- interpretive
- lifelike
- narrative
- particularized
- pictorial
- picturesque
- revealing
- specific
- true to life
- vivid
- anecdotic
- characteristic
- characterizing
- circumstantial
- classificatory
- clear
- definitive
- delineative
- depictive
- describing
- detailed
- eloquent
- explicative
- expository
- expressive
- extended
- graphic
- identifying
- illuminating
- illuminative
- illustrative
- indicative
- interpretive
- lifelike
- narrative
- particularized
- pictorial
- picturesque
- revealing
- specific
- true to life
- vivid
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