Sentence examples for character describe from inspiring English sources

In Godard's "King Lear," from 1987, he has a character describe editing as "handling physically, in both hands, the future, the present, and the past".

In his 1941 novel, "The Last Tycoon," F. Scott Fitzgerald had a character describe Hollywood as "a mining town in lotus land".

The implication that discomfort might be a saving grace, a guard against complacency, is vintage Robinson, a woman who has a character describe heaven itself as "a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable".

Hammett, eager to slip one by, had a character describe his activity as "on the gooseberry lay," tramp lingo for "stealing clothes from clotheslines," its connotation larcenous but not vulgar.

That this is to a large extent a metaphor (for the novel in general, or this novel in particular) becomes glaringly obvious when we hear one unnamed character describe the play he's writing, in which a character sits at a desk, doing nothing; after the audience has left, he will do something — what that "something" is, though, the play's author hasn't worked out yet.

He thought of his novels, stories and poems as an interconnected system, and in the short novel Amulet we hear a character describe a certain street in Mexico City as "more like a cemetery than an avenue, not a cemetery in 1974 or in 1968, or 1975, but a cemetery in the year 2666, a forgotten cemetery under the eyelid of a corpse or an unborn child".

How is Anna's character described?

How is Tess's character described?

"Have you heard a male character described as feisty?

When you auditioned, how was the character described?

In the film, Smith's character describes it as like pouring concrete down plumbing pipes.