Sentence examples for agitated character from inspiring English sources

Mr. Watt, a bassist and singer who used to play in the Minutemen, the Southern California punk band, is streaking across the continent, playing 50 one-nighters with only two days off, performing his third unified concept album "Hyphenated-Man" (Clenched Wrench), a mess of agitated character sketches based on Hieronymus Bosch figures.

Mr. Dudgeon (how apt a name for an actor playing an agitated character) was terrific in his subtly evoked recognition that nothing he says to his wife will get her to respond in a way that will satisfy his need to possess her.

Adolescents who become hyperactive, suddenly agitated or who act strangely out of character may be reacting badly to the drugs, experts say.

In the classic tradition of Italian opera, the two characters are pitted in an agitated duet, with offstage chorus.

It is more turbulent in design, with agitated draperies, expressive faces, and a complicated ornamented character, particularly in the backgrounds.

That script, by Drew Larimore, locks each character into a single mood — Caroline is the agitated city woman, Hal the hokey outdoorsman — passing up any chance at complexity or inventive comedy.

There is an awful lot of telling on top of the showing; characters spread their arms in agitation while they say the things that show how agitated they are, or turn round in surprise to say how surprised they are.

The characters are often in a state of restless, agitated motion, confused about where they are going and what they will find when they arrive.

In Bolaño's ten novels and three story collections — all completed in his torrential final decade, before he succumbed to a chronic liver ailment that he suspected would seal his fate — characters go through life in a state of agitated migration.

Many of the Chopin nocturnes have middle sections marked by agitated expression (and often making very difficult demands on the performer) which heightens their dramatic character.

In the demanding outer movements, Ohlsson missed notes and smudged a phrase or two, but these minor slips seemed part of the all-too-human character of his earthy and ethereal reading, from the moody opening Allegro to the extremely agitated Rondo finale.