What seems to me to characterise people in everyday life is, overwhelmingly, that they're trying to do something.

He was very good at characterizing and castigating people and putting himself on a pedestal.

Dad was the one that characterized people by the color of their skin.

Strategic construals also influence the degree to which categories are believed to characterise other people.

Yet it is also possible to characterize several people in the story without at all interfering with the forward movement of the tale.

He does have gifts, chief among them an ability to characterize people with a signature gesture or pose.

Some Jews have been responsible for characterizing black people as clowns and buffoons, using the movie industry to get that message over.

All of what we know that characterizes people shifted radically.

Blue-haired is objectionable when used to characterize older people.

"We slot and characterize people when we know their race."