Sentence examples for book of characters from inspiring English sources
An outstanding book of "characters," it avoids didacticism and displays genuine personalities, such as a "child," a "Good old Man," a "young raw Preacher," and a "Grave Divine".
Hall was also the first writer in English to emulate Theophrastus, an ancient Greek philosopher who wrote a book of characters, with Characters of Vertues and Vices (1608).
In Sykes's view, the fleeting appearances in the book of characters from Waugh's farcical world, such as Lady Metroland, are awkward and intrusive the world of A Handful of Dust is not outlandish: "Evelyn would have done better to have forgotten Lady Metroland and her world altogether".
Writers such as Mickey Spillane wrote the comic book adventures of characters such as Captain Marvel or the Sub-Mariner before turning to novels.
Its full title runs Of the books On Characters and Modes of Life written as epitomes from the lectures of Zeno, Book, which is On Frank Criticism, and testifies to the existence of a second series of Philodemus' ethical works.
Oddly, in a book of vivid characters, Sillett, the protagonist, is the least vivid.
The genetic information in each human being is a book of three billion characters of text written into molecules of DNA, and a book of startling surprises it is.
But isn't it the critic's job to give the reader a sense of the book, of its characters and their milieu, of what it's about?
I'm not a guy coming in and doing a comic-book adaptation of characters who I have never really read.
In addition, we tested how type of book character and type of shared book reading enhances preschoolers' healthy food responses via two important underlying mechanisms of entertainment education (i.e., character involvement and media enjoyment).
The original ticket used in baige piao, and still in widespread use in Chinese communities where the game continues to be popular, featured the first 80 characters in Qianziwen ("Book of a Thousand Characters") instead of numbers.
