What is "characterizes"

Usage examples of "characterizes".

The folds of the drapery, the fall of the curtains, had been arranged and rearranged, by Adolph and Rosa, with that nicety of eye which characterizes their race.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition and to which we will return.

Altogether it is certainly not a want of honesty or of respect to the rights of the congeners which characterizes the barbarian societies of Caucasus.

They shared that blend of boy scout and mugger that characterizes old-timers in the CIA.

There was that sweet melancholy, that forgiving sadness that characterizes the beautiful in the Japanese mind.