Sentence examples for character mentions from inspiring English sources

Too much red: Jeff Clark turns Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" into a graph that charts character mentions and moods.

This explains how one character can refer casually to a CD at the same time another character mentions having brought the clean laundry in from the clothesline.

For instance, at one point in the book I think a character mentions three bands in a sentence: Souled American, Memorial Garage, and the Rain Injuries.

At one point, a character mentions that China has entered the houzheteng shidai or, as Quarterly editor Geremie Barmé renders it, "The Age of Complacency".

But then something more whimsical will pop up, as when a character mentions that Cousin Japeth "went off to fight in the Mouse Wars".

When a Lonergan character mentions the past, it comes as a surprise, like a bright-colored fish flitting across a big gray wave.

During an out-of-town run in the Berkshires, an audience member whooped when a character mentioned the Redskins.

When his character mentioned Paul Lynde at one point, I thought, yes, that's whom he has been channeling all this time.

The inhibition is directed, not only against punishments of the character mentioned, but against all punishments which by their excessive length or severity are greatly disproportioned to the offenses charged.

The show hits the right notes in the game-show vapidity of "Bobby Watson and Family," a variety spectacle (with nice comic work by Nancy Anderson) based on a character mentioned but not seen in "The Bald Soprano".

That applies to most puns, including Milton's famous lines about the Prophet Elijah's ravens, which were "though ravenous taught to abstain from what they brought," or the character mentioned by Freud, who calls the Christmas season the "alcoholidays".