character
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Diane Morgan: Well, it started for me when Charlie wrote a character called Philomena Cunk, and he wanted someone with quite a posh English accent, which I don’t have, in case you can’t hear that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026
"It would've been out of character if they had."
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2026
McDermott was previously at Tottenham Hotspur and says that even when he was in club football, he was a "big believer" in players going abroad to "develop character" and "independence".
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
Morgan, meanwhile, has utterly inhabited the character, down to her own greater Manchester-Bolton accent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026
Kevin Costner’s character, Al Harrison, was based upon several people, including Robert R. Gilruth, who headed the Space Task Group.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
What do you think about the ways in which audiences prejudge the characters?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Wind, a financial-data provider, identified 70 mainland-listed stocks with names containing one of three identically pronounced characters meaning sheep, ocean or sun.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026
Burgess’s characters and mode of storytelling come from a preironic age and may seem, by current stylistic standards, almost embarrassingly sugary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Technically, both actors are old enough to play the parents of high schoolers, but today’s moisturized middle-age Hollywood star looks far more youthful than these characters would have 40 years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Books required fingers to turn the pages and a heart to feel the emotions of the characters on the page, but the cinema was different.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 2
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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