How to Use characterization in a Sentence

characterization

noun
  • The class discussed the author's characterization of the boy as someone who wanted to be accepted by others.
  • The reporter was criticized for his characterization of the people of the town as poor and uneducated.
  • The story has good characterization.
  • News reporting requires accurate characterization.
  • There isn’t a whole lot of nuance in some of the characterizations.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
  • The jokes on the show and her characterization are similar to most of Kaling’s characters in the past.
    Brahmjot Kaur, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Thousands of miles away from home, Kingsolver’s keen sense of place and her deft characterization brought me right back to the US.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Dec. 2023
  • NBC News has not heard or seen the episode and cannot confirm this characterization of Ye’s comments.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The response fits characterizations of Long as an all-around good guy.
    Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
  • The characterization of the Baywatch alum as the latter is nothing new to Brandon, 26.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2023
  • But in recent weeks, some of its leading Democrats have been eager to make their case for why that characterization is wrong.
    Marisa Lagos, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
  • That many of the other characters in the book fall rather flat may be as much a product of Monet’s characterizations as the author’s.
    Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Although the artist had hastily named his piece, the characterization stuck.
    Emily Labarge, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The characterization of the meeting was also not taken well among Scalise allies, even the ones who had voted for Jordan on the floor.
    Reese Gorman, Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2023
  • While the characterizations aren’t particularly deep, the actors do their best to fill in the blanks.
    Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
  • But characterization of the bones show that many of them have signs of muscle being cut away and/or having been broken open to extract the marrow.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 July 2024
  • But his grumblings, in her characterization, boiled down to wanting more control over the project.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Some have called Altamont a defining episode of the decade, the death knell of the flower-power movement, though Barger scoffed at the characterization.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
  • In the video on Monday, Mr. O’Keefe disputed the characterizations in the memo of his conduct and management style.
    Adam Goldman, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The core strength of the film is Edgerton’s stoical characterization.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2022
  • This characterization made a certain sense at the time.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
  • If the characterization feels real, that’s the most essential thing for me.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • Musk himself has been blunt in his characterization of the Cybertruck.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2023
  • However, a group of men who were reportedly from Venezuela did object to one characterization from the right of their journey to the U.S.
    Charles Creitz, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2022
  • One wishes the action were more thought through — there are many, many instances of armed killers and cops just standing there and watching as their friends get their skulls smashed in — and a hint of characterization would have helped.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • But beyond that, for all its glances and gruffness, the show is light on meaningful characterization.
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Knowing that her big lifelong dream is to open her own store, how important was the styling aspect of your characterization?
    Michael Cuby, ELLE, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Daboll didn’t correct the reporter’s characterization of the tie.
    Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Winchell said there have been concerns about how VAS maintained its records but disputed the county’s characterization in its letters.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Google has denied this characterization of its ad tech dominance, calling the DOJ's market definitions too narrow.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024

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