Sentence examples for a defining character from inspiring English sources

The crucial missing ingredient that could prevent "The Three Musketeers" from developing into a juggernaut is a defining character that is anything like Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow.

At the center of "Brick Lane," a modest new film directed by Sarah Gavron, is a woman for whom modesty is not just a defining character trait but also a moral principle.

Because segmentation is such a defining character of the annelids, the multiple paired muscles of chitons and fossil monoplacophorans was suggestive of the possibility of segmentation in the ancestral molluscan lineage as well.

For example, Mayer (2006) documented fundamental differences in how the excretory organs (nephridia) develop between onychophorans and annelids that weaken a character, "segmentally arranged metanephridia," that had traditionally been cited as a defining character of Articulata.

It would bump all the earliest fossils out of the human tree--including a 4.1-million-year-old fossil from Kenya called Australopithecus anamensis, which was already well on its way toward becoming human; it already walked upright, which is a defining character of being ancestral to humans, but not apes.

The squamosal lacks a suspensory process that contacts the tegmen tympani, the roof of the tympanic cavity, a defining character of oryzomyines.

In our previous games, as we did in Jade Empire, as we did in KOTOR, as we did in Baldur's Gate, and many games before and in the future, we enable those kinds of choices, whereas in Mass Effect it's more about Shepard as a defined character with certain approaches and worldviews, and that's just who he or she is.

But their essential ideological character played a defining part in how the history of the 20th century was written.

Penelope Lively: I'm very keen on dialogue as a way of defining character, so I often find that the notebooks fill up with passages of dialogue between a couple of characters who at that stage will be called A and B or X and Y; they haven't even got names.

Among the other inmates are a nervy Ben Whishaw ("I have a limp, which is also my defining character trait"), a lisping John C Reilly, and Ashley Jensen's desperately accommodating "Biscuit Woman".

Along the way we get period dances, modern dance, even some ballet, but no one expects great choreography from Mr. Bourne, a master of storytelling and defining character through movement.