Sentence examples for characters off from inspiring English sources

"I felt you had to pay those characters off," he said.

Just as films based on British sitcoms always pack their characters off on a sunshine holiday, no one seems capable of putting an innocent children's programme on the big screen without turning it into a borderline horror movie.

Because when your series is so nearly culled before its time, you have every right to take your revolver in hand when the time is right and see your characters off with commensurate dignity.

Henry compares bank regulation to plumbing but has to be reminded about a leak in his house; Charlotte challenges Henry to say that the land being sold "doesn't stand for something, for a rot more pervasive"; and Haslett is none too subtle about sending the characters off on reveries in order to convey information or fill in back stories.

As we all know by now, "Spartacus" creator Steven DeKnight does not mind killing characters off, and you may even wonder if he revels in the bloodshed that occurs near the end of every season of the show.

Tell us! (Joss later spoke about the difficulty of not being able to necessarily kill any of the main characters off: "Ultimately, the answer is always what's at stake has to be more than their lives. It has to be something bigger externally and smaller internally like they have to be going through an internal struggle that matches what they are facing on the outside").

Most people expect authors to embody their works just as they expect actors to somehow embody their characters off-screen.

There's the practical stuff: you shower, it shakes the character off, as it were.

However, it'd be criminal to write this character off by the end of the season.

It was also thought that producers were going to kill the character off, in her early stages.

Does he regret killing the character off? "It's just something that gives you pause," he explained.