Sentence examples for characters ahead of from inspiring English sources

Although it's difficult to make excuses for the unremittingly lame Miss Marple, few have been capable of resisting her Walloon counterpart, the mustachioed Hercule Poirot, who indubitably ranks as one of literature's great characters (ahead of Hamlet, behind Falstaff).

With a brief 21-day shoot, the director and actors mostly discussed the characters ahead of time, or, if Mr. Ford wanted something specific, it was spelled out in the script.

A press release from 2007, on the thirtieth anniversary of its founding, bragged that Chuck E. Cheese ranked "among the top 4 percent of favorite characters ahead of Mickey Mouse, Ronald McDonald, The Flintstones, Barbie and Snoopy" in children aged six to eight, according to a Cartoon Q ranking study.

Read on to discover what Ted Danson, Joe Mantegna, Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette and Christine Lahti could reveal about their characters ahead of their official premieres.

Mr. Van Sant's style of directing, watchful and low-key, puts character ahead of story, and the script invites the actors to be warm, funny and prickly.

Writing in The Times, A.O. Scott praises "Promised Land," Gus Van Sant's new film about the battle over fracking, as a film that "works," mainly "by putting character ahead of story" and "inviting the actors to be warm, funny and prickly".

The move appears to be at attempt to discredit the 17-year-old's character ahead of Zimmerman's trial for second-degree murder next month, at which the neighbourhood watch leader's defence team will claim Martin was the aggressor in their fatal confrontation in a Sanford gated community in February 2012.

The documentary, along with the just-published biography, Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose, is not afraid to tell the stories describing her not only as a colorful character ahead of her time, but also as an impossibly difficult person.

Elizabeth was a character ahead of her time, clearly valued for her intelligence and self-respect.

Mr. Ularu, a theater professor at the University of South Carolina, moves Chekhov's characters ahead 18 years.

Kiosks were crammed with cartoon-character backpacks ahead of school opening on Sunday.