The phrase "a usual character" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used when describing someone or something that is typical or standard in a particular context, but it is better to use more conventional expressions.
Example: "In this story, the protagonist is a usual character who embodies the traits of a classic hero."
Alternatives: "a typical character" or "a standard character".
As if realizing this himself, adult Scrooge, "with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character," feels a new wave of pity for his child self — and, with it, regret for how, the previous day, he had chased away a child who was singing Christmas carols at his door.
As if realizing this himself, adult Scrooge, "with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character," feels a new wave of pity for his child self and, with it, regret for how, the previous day, he had chased away a child who was singing Christmas carols at his door.
"Did he appear to you as a gentle, nice, lovely man? "What the prosecution say is that for some weird reason between 1965 and 1972, for no discernible reason, Mr Roache departed from his usual character and behaviour and became a young woman-snatcher, a risk-taker, taking people into toilets.
It is also, for a sports movie, perhaps unique in that it dispenses almost totally with the usual character arcs: at the end, there is no Damascene fist-punch moment, just the quiet realisation that these people will never be transformed by winning: they will always be who they really are.
The dual role device allows Chaney to split his usual character in two.
In the course of their adventures, the usual character conflicts — Will Russell respect his daughter's young fiancé?
But in literature you tend to come across the usual character types: either the bureaucrats such as Eichmann, or the highly perverse caricature of a Nazi.
What is unusual this time is that the contest of personalities has been unmarked by the usual character assassination, innuendo and glibness.
Mr. Gervais plays his usual character, she added, "and while that's fine as far it goes, the movie itself would have gone further if he and Mr. Robinson had worked harder on their own sweet lies -- their art".
From a distance, if you squinted real hard, it looked like a normal marathon, with its usual characters and scenes, as Tom Peck describes in The Independent, but there was also that 40 percent boost in police protection and that mix of apprehension and sadness and determination that accompanied the start.
