characterful

Example Sentences

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Highgrove, a quirky and characterful house in Gloucestershire, that seems allergic to straight lines, has become a living laboratory for his organic gardening and farming techniques.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

Rodell Aure Rosel, as the slimy marriage broker, Goro, and Wei Wu, as the angry monk Bonze, were both characterful in a silent movie kind of way.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024

What won’t change: the hotel’s status as a characterful Los Angeles icon and official city landmark, within walking distance of the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica pier.

From National Geographic • Apr. 18, 2023

Schiff’s most characterful work, though, was in the Rondo finale, in which he rendered the cadenza as a grander conclusion, interjecting the “Don Giovanni” chords, then layering the overture and the concerto in clever counterpoint.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2023

He has not the appearance of a seer of ghosts: a huge, heavy man, with a hump on a big, characterful nose; a powerful jaw, and very quick, blue eyes beneath shaggy eyebrows.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.