Sentence examples for an act of character from inspiring English sources

It's an act of character for him to remain true to himself.

Releasing that tape was as blatant an act of character assassination as one could imagine.

This anarchist performance was an act of protest; his character was a representation of what the American dream had made of the African American diaspora, as immortalised by his THUG LIFE mantra: "The Hate U Gave Little Infants Fucks Everybody".

From the moment that Will Genia, the player who kept Australia in the first Test and turned the second, dropped Jonathan Sexton's kick-off in an act of gaucheness out of character with one of the game's quickest thinkers, the Lions were on the front foot.

Through an act of rebellious mercy, this character winds up with the girl of his dreams — a pampered kleptomaniac — and when the war comes, he's promoted to a job serving coffee.

For many a cynical cricket fan, describing someone as a "character" is an act of derision.

It was a powerful performance, in which her character performs an act of genital self-mutilation and subjects Willem Dafoe to largely unspeakable acts of torture.

In 1924, the composer had produced a twenty-minute stage opera, "à la African-American," called "Blue Monday" (later renamed "135th Street"), which presaged "Porgy and Bess" in a number of ways — down to the inclusion of a gambling argument that precipitates an act of violence and a melancholy female character who has a hard time understanding, let alone accepting, love.

When simply asking people to address you appropriately can be seen as an act of defiance, that builds a certain character.

Laying himself this bare feels like an act of penance for surviving, and makes his character all the richer.

Two centuries hence, can we imagine any contemporary fictional characters inspiring such an act of love?