Sentence examples for characters as though from inspiring English sources

"My intent is not to 'diagnose' the characters as though they were real people, but rather to show how they conform to certain ideal types," he writes.

The popular image of the puppeteer is that he manipulates his characters, as though they existed in time and were being pushed into his purposes.

In an experiment into the 'bystander effect', Slater and his colleagues found that people would intervene to stop a fight between two virtual characters as though they were real.

Whether the setting is the Vietnam war or the Age of Enlightenment, period movies tend to treat their characters as though they knew they were living in the past all along.

Female writers are too often conflated with their characters, as though women aren't granted the same imaginative capacities; after all, how could a woman possibly create a monster without being one herself?

As a quick aside, I note that the great writer Jonathan Lethem, in reference to Dickens' Dombey and Son, has encouraged the reader to imagine Dickens' characters as though they were animals – "clever, eccentric badgers", wily foxes and cats – and all in Victorian costume.

But the text is vague and repetitious, leaving Mr. Arbus's character speaking as though to himself about memories only he can envision, and leaving Ms. Landers's character mute (she's a crummy journalist) and the actress herself looking terribly uncomfortable.

New York Chinese Character Festival (Sunday) This is character, as in written symbol, not character, as in stories, though the two are certainly related.

Since King exists in the world of "Stranger Things," it seems unlikely that his fictional characters would as well (though, as one of our readers points out, there is a Stephen King in the "Dark Tower" series).

The unfortunate narrators had the impossible task of telling the stories in character as though they were remembering events of long ago, then re-enacting those events.

The crying scene on the stairs floated disconnected from the rest of the season's portrayal of Claire's character, as though the writers, perhaps confounded by their own narrative twists, had lost a sense of where they wanted to take her story or why.