For some Buddhists, the "substantial" character of this capacity seemed to imply the presence in each of us of a "true self"—not the egoistic self that appears as a function of ignorance, habit formations and craving forms of desire, and that is dissolved through Buddhist training and the realization of no-self (anatman), but rather an unassailably aware core of being-present.
The art critic Sally Yard has noted that in the portrayal of Dyer's flesh, "life seems to visibly drain ... into the substantial character of the shadow beneath him".
(How much Mr. Cochran revealed racial tensions and how much he provoked them is a question the mini-series doesn't raise.) The imposing Mr. Rhames looks nothing like the trim, dapper Mr. Cochran, which frees him to create the one substantial character.
Sam Rockwell plays the only substantial character we see on screen, but there are two of him.
For all its large ideas and its high-flown rhetoric, the novel's most substantial character is the hero's pragmatic wife, who turns both the nationalist epic and the great love story upside down when, after years of lightning visits by her husband, she makes it clear just who the true Palestinian hero is.
It is legally equivalent to a civil action of debt upon the statute, and its substantial character is not changed by calling the default a misdemeanor, and providing for its prosecution by information.
This stark real-life example would have added weight to Munich's theme of the uncertainties of spycraft – and to the story of Salameh (Mehdi Nebbou), who is a substantial character in the movie.
Kurosawa adds his own twist to the story - his film does not finish, as In a Grove does, on the dead man's confession, but turns the woodcutter (who amounts only to a few lines in the original) into a more substantial character.
I'll also say, reading early interviews and reviews of Carpenter's film, there were a lot of people applauding and calling it an intelligent and interesting female lead character, a substantial character from the original "Halloween". So we're thinking, "That's great.
Madeline, glimpsed only twice in the original tale, here becomes a substantial character, before her lurid zombie-type reanimation.
The following year provided a more substantial character as Rabbitzn, in A Price Above Rubies, an intriguing feminist assault on orthodox Jewish life in Brooklyn.
