Ms. Pompeo, it should be said, has charms that almost overcome the limitations of her flimsy, convenient character.
The current political will, with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt as its hapless mouthpiece, is more geared towards exploiting these convenient character traits than compensating for them.
One of the story's most blatantly convenient characters makes the air of contrivance even thicker by suggesting that when Griffin writes a movie based on his meltdown, Susan Sarandon should play her.
But the heat became a convenient excuse for the character that came to dominate the franchise for much of the next three decades.
When a bomb went off in the finale, it killed every corrupt or shady character, a convenient metaphor for the show's problems: it had been purged of complexity, a side effect of success.
Caroline, who eventually reveals why she refused to divulge much about her past, is as much a device as a character: a convenient way for Ms. Morisseau to bring the issue of the city's stark racial divide from the streets into the basement.
The development of such a style can be attributed to those of the Qin Dynasty who were seeking to create a convenient form of written characters for daily usage.
Likewise, constructing a proper procedure, or even a convenient device, to measure the character of a player facing a game situation is a promising and challenging project.
In these studies, subtype-specific ligands could have provided a convenient method of probing the character of receptors, but it was only recently that ligands were identified that could distinguish 5-HT3A from 5-HT3AB recepTable(Table 1).
The Daily Mail gave him the sobriquet of "the rudest man in Britain", although Starkey claims that his character was part of a "convenient image".
