Her work is rarely propulsive — little moves forward, including her characters' ideas about the world.
"My job... is to be able to distinguish important phenomena from unimportant, to be able to illuminate characters and speak with their tongues," he wrote to a friend, insisting that his characters' ideas must be "examined like objects".
A writer with a mind that doesn't register how words are spelled tends to see through the words he encounters — straight to the things, characters, ideas, images and emotions they conjure.
Through images, texts or testimonies, literally and metaphorically, characters, ideas, places, events, situations and values are resuscitated within a historic gallery designed by the narrators and populated by a multiplicity of named portraits: the ghosts of the 70s.
The frivolity of the film's unexpressed political earnestness — Bonello's unwillingness to give voice to his or his characters' ideas — is matched by the emptiness of its aesthetic.
To his admirers, his work is an awe-inspiring maze, or a Large Hadron Collider that bounces amusing characters, ideas and chunks of history off each other in new and fascinating ways.
Furthermore, the albums were frequently based around a complex, cartoonish mythology, packed with fictional characters, ideas and themes that variously touched on Afrofuturism, socially conscious spirituality, consumerism and ecology.
This includes important characters, ideas, events, and/or terms.
These usually cover key points, characters, ideas, and concepts in these books.
These will provide a brief synopsis of plots, characters, ideas, facts, outcomes, etc., in whatever field you're writing about.
