Sentence examples for a character returning from inspiring English sources

Aïssatou Cissokho, a Senegalese writer, in Dakar, la touriste autochtone (1986; "Dakar, the Native Tourist"), depicts a character returning from Europe and finding things much the same in Dakar.

Sometimes, when a character returns to EastEnders, their motive for doing so can be a real headscratcher.

In Tom Piazza's novel about Hurricane Katrina, "City of Refuge," a character returns to his flooded home in Mid-City and picks up what looks like a limp, wet sausage.

They also have a reluctant character returning home to their remaining parent's house.

The film tells the story of the title character returning to Earth after a five-year absence.

Pollack believes that Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr .opposed the pun simply because Holmes said so, claiming, in "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," that if you killed a man for punning, "the jury would be judges of both the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide".

The book turns the sprightly, whirring tradition of picaresque on its head: in contradistinction to the outward-bound jauntiness of Henry Fielding's heroes, we have a book whose one stab at a central character returns home only to get lost in the crowd.

Another character returning to the series was Q, played by Ben Whishaw.

When an escaped fictional character returns to his book, the reader Meggie is trapped there too; a sequel to "Inkheart".

The Mariners are, in essence, a daily reality series starring Lou Piniella, as the wise former hell-raiser from Tampa, Fla.; Ichiro Suzuki, as the mysterious, lovable superstar hitter whose utterances in Japanese are examined for their profundity; and Ruben Sierra as an Odysseus-like character, returned from his travels with his batting skills restored.

Mirisch revealed that because of the famous scene in which Poitier's character "returns" a slap in the face to a white plantation owner (which does not appear in the 1965 novel), Hollywood producers strongly considered not making "Heat" altogether.