The 19th century bred a new kind of musician the composer-conductor, as exemplified by Carl Maria von Weber, Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn, and Richard Wagner men of autocratic and creative character who assumed full control over performance and brought to their work a singleminded creative viewpoint and a cultivated sensitivity that was a hallmark of much of the 19th-century period in music.
The title character, an autocratic director who is the leader of a guerrilla troupe of cinema terrorists, suggests a mad Stalinist version of Mr. Waters's own background as an underground filmmaker and lends a witty new dimension to the term "cult director".
Baker said of Glover's performance, "He turned in a tremendous character, forceful, autocratic but never over the top".
It was, after all, the autocratic magnetism of the Patty Hewes character that initially drew her to its pilot script — an opportunity to explore "how people characterize women in positions of power who are smart and manipulative and unforgiving in certain ways," Ms. Close said.
The survey evaluates six factors that genocide expert Barbara Harff identifies as key indicators of a risk for minorities -- political upheaval, previous genocides, exclusionary ideology of the ruling elite, autocratic nature of the regime, minority character of the ruling elite, and low trade openness.
"These women are very autocratic and idiosyncratic," said Ms. Mirren, whose character gardens wearing pearls.
In appearance he was small, thin, and pale; in character, impetuous, astute, obstinate, and autocratic, though simple and approachable.
One can't help but sense the hand of an ill-advisedly autocratic auteur; even if this is farce, characters, not characteristics, must rule.
But others say Mr. Spencer has always been autocratic, and the crisis has simply brought his character into relief.
What started as a political movement against the corrupt and autocratic Bozizé is now taking on an ominously religious character.
