Sentence examples for brilliant characterisation from inspiring English sources

Recommended by Bansi Kara, assistant headteacher in central London It's easy to forget the brilliant characterisation in these stories.

Despite the intervening decades, the impact of his brilliant characterisation is such that you still expect him to come staggering in, bottle of vodka in hand, frock coat flapping and an air of icy malice sending a chill wind round the room.

Optimistically billed as the next Stoner, this 1967 reissue is in fact the better novel: Savage has constructed, against scenery "vast and hostile to individual hope", a rich and challenging psychodrama, based on brilliant characterisation – particularly of Rose, for whom living becomes "so narrow that she brooded nights on what to wear the next day", and the monstrous Phil.

"The winner combined ingenious tech, a singular aesthetic, perfect characterisation, a brilliant compressed narrative and pitch-black humour.

But I'm surprised by how rarely reviewers note the emotional heart of Rake: the characterisation of a brilliant barrister who is also a brilliant dickhead; who feels the world in brilliant extremes.

His characterisations, too, can be brilliant, and he spares nobody: Yasser Arafat, the longtime Palestinian leader, suited Israel as a negotiating partner because "he possessed the nationalist credentials of a Nelson Mandela but… appeared desperate enough to play the part of the Bantustan chief, Mangosuthu Buthelezi".

It's so nearly brilliant, in fact, that its shortcomings – wobbly characterisation and odd lurches in tone – are all the more frustrating.

But there is no doubting that Kushner knows what she is doing with the slightly empty characterisation of Reno – a writer this brilliant and this self-aware does not leave an accidental blank.

Strong characterisation and unforgettable scene-setting underpin this brilliant coming-of-age novel set in the Western Highlands of the early 1970s against a backdrop of terminal decline for the regional railway.

Rupert Goold's Merchant of Venice was great fun, even if the inconsistency in Portia's characterisation (from ditzy blond Glee fan to brilliant prosecutor, hm) took the edge off it.

Tess's relationship with her father and mother was also incredibly well written, and the characterisation of the often dislikable Jack was brilliant: his chapters and lines were drenched with this arrogance, but then the little specks of care would shine through, and I was never quite sure whether I liked him or hated him.