Sentence examples for characters devised from inspiring English sources

The video screen overhead had additional faces: the four cartoon characters, devised by Jamie Hewlett, who are nominally Gorillaz' official members.

He has invented an oversize, diverse cast of characters, devised a complicated plot and wrestled earnestly with economic and environmental issues.

He sometimes talks as if paint were greasepaint — as if his works were a cast of characters, devised, directed, and gorgeously costumed by him, then left onstage to find their own way, growing older and less innocent with each viewing.

The critic Anthony Lane once wrote that Hodgkin sometimes used to talk "as if paint were greasepaint – as if his works were a cast of characters, devised, directed and gorgeously costumed by him, then left on stage to find their own way", a statement that baffled me when I read it.

Ken Barlow is one of the twenty-two original Coronation Street characters devised by series creator Tony Warren.

"Liberty Belle" tells the story of two cartoon characters devised by Rhys, 'Liberty Belle' and 'Memory Lane', the former representing the "bells of freedom", specifically the American Dream, and the latter representing "history's harsh lessons" which Liberty Belle has failed to learn.

Its preppie and college-age characters devise a new acronym, UHB, which stands for urban haute-bourgeoisie.

We may have to wait 30 years for the official papers to confirm that Francois was, all along, a baroque comedy character devised by Harry Enfield and then discarded as too ludicrous.

REVEREND BILLY is a character devised by Bill Talen, an actor turned activist who makes political theater in the tradition of Lenny Bruce and Peter Schumann (the frontman and inventor of the Bread and Puppet Theater).

The costume ties into an alternative history for the character devised by J. Michael Straczynski, the new writer of the series, and into a quest by DC to shine a critical and creative spotlight on the heroine, who stands with Superman and Batman in its primary triumvirate of superstars, despite her series's modest sales.

The characters, first devised to represent Chinese monosyllables, could be used only with great ingenuity to represent the agglutinative forms of the Japanese language.