character
Example Sentences
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And while previous TV adaptations root into the emotional interiority of their male characters while sidelining female desire, “The Forsytes” places more narrative purpose in the hands of its women.
From Salon
The summer of 1886 found the artist in Honfleur, whose historic character and cobbled streets had long made it a haunt for painters, including the Impressionists, and tourists.
Much of this squares with Mencken’s character portrait of the “booboisie,” the unthinking type of American whose numbers seem to have exploded in recent decades, perhaps in interaction with contemporary historical events.
From Salon
They are dressed as their favourite characters, with Conroy carrying an enormous replica shotgun, while his helmet was dumped on the floor nearby.
From BBC
Other than Salome, the characters are not named, rather treated as types.
From Los Angeles Times
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