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The two initiatives encapsulate Mr. Adams’s self-characterization as a blue-collar candidate: Make the streets and the subway safe and reliable for New York’s working-class residents.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2021

The emptiness of that self-characterization is classic Araki, where alienation is a default pose.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2019

There is every reason to believe this self-characterization is accurate, given Packer’s tendency toward meticulously reasoned, wildly unpopular arguments that alienate those provisionally “on his side.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 29, 2015

He said the museum relies on such groups’ self-characterization as nonprofit organizations to determine pricing.

From Washington Times • Sep. 16, 2015

Such a bit of intricate self-characterization as the English poet puts into the Queen's mouth in the first scene with Chastelard, in the third act, lies utterly beyond the range of the sturdier Norseman.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth