The pavilion's elements were disparate in form - the chunky theater, the vast, open hall, the tall, slender towers - and in detailing - solid, no-nonsense concrete, seemingly flimsy plexiglass and the vigorous character of the riveted steel.
His notable Charaktēres (many English translations) consists of 30 brief and vigorous character sketches delineating moral types derived from studies that Aristotle had made for ethical and rhetorical purposes; this work later formed the basis for the masterpiece of Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères... (1699).
Only in the book's last section is Abigail shown as something other than monstrously cold, though all along she provides more verve than the other, less vigorous characters.
Expressed a vigorous strain of the national character.
Until then, Chen Mengjia had not been active in the writing-reform movement, but now he stepped in as a vigorous opponent of alphabetization and character simplification.
Nonetheless, Michael Hodgson's Silver has a dangerously seductive charisma which reminds you that Stevenson conceived the character as a vigorous, attractive figure.
Now, as then, he plays a vigorous, brutal, sympathetic, ragingly leonine, charismatic character; in the NBC show he is King Silas, the leader of the newly unified kingdom of Gilboa, whose capital, Shiloh, is being inaugurated as the series starts.
The London-based Goldman Sachs banker Fabrice Tourre, who is at the centre of a $1bn£650m0m) fraud prosecution, came out fighting today with a vigorous rebuttal of "unfounded attacks" on his character and motives.
When Lynn Johnston's For Better or For Worse explored the coming out of a teenaged character in 1993, it provoked a vigorous reaction from conservative groups.
