Literary critic Tom McCarthy concurred that Tintin represented the Belgian state, but also suggested that he acted as a Christian missionary, even being "a kind of god" akin to the character of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899).
It seems that the northerners are quieter, more reserved and in some way akin to the national character of Canadians, while the southern squirrel is brasher.
in Time Bandits (1981) Everyone has their own image of God, some of them more akin to the cruel and vengeful character of the Old Testament narratives, but there is something seductively comforting about Ralph Richardson's portrait of the Supreme Being in Terry Gilliam's bizarre fantasy Time Bandits.
--1988 Chouinard Monterey County Gewurztraminer ($6.50): The spice character of this fine wine is akin to carnations and litchi nuts, and the rather full-bodied taste comes in part from 1.5% residual sugar masked by high acidity.
Indeed, chemical-structure recognition algorithms may be most akin to character- and text-recognition algorithms.
And noticing all these details is akin to noticing the connections between characters of which they are fatally unaware.
When probed by special scanners a few feet away, the chips report back a few dozen characters of manufacturer information, akin to what's found on a bar code.
At times, the inner tensions of these faces seem akin to those of characters in a well-made video game: hyper-real and not nuanced enough.
She has an effortless glamour akin to that of her character.
He suggested that the characters of Link's Awakening be written as "suspicious types", akin to those in Twin Peaks—a theme which carried over into later Zelda titles.
His monologue continued its hopeful tack, comparing Trump's embrace of racist rhetoric on the campaign trail as perhaps akin to the out-of-character efforts one makes while in the early stages of dating, like agreeing to go apple picking.
