The 'virtues', the social skills, attitudes, and character-traits that characterized most of the citizens of his time, were all too often geared to their possessors' wealth, power, and self-indulgence, to the detriment of public morality and the community's well-being.
They were tired of the character assassination and negative attacks that characterize campaigning today, and more than anyone else, Obama understood that.
Does that characterize all your fiction?
First, I believe that our faculty will continue to display a pioneering spirit and an entrepreneurial character that have characterized Stanford from its beginning.
This episode revisits the most burning questions (and some of the most enigmatic characters) of Fire Walk with Me, and combines them with the focus on love and relationships that characterized the original series.
It's the difference, in movies, between the sort of faithful naturalism that characterizes the technically impressive, self-subordinating performances that tend to win Oscars and the irrepressibly individual performances that don't melt into character but, rather, jump out of character and through the screen.
Mary Sue characters are characters that are perfect.
In terms of genre, the film by cinematographer-turned-director Wally Pfister is something of a departure for 50-year-old Depp, being neither a true tent-pole film like the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies nor a smaller, quirky character piece like the movies that characterized the early part of his career ("Edward Scissorhands," "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas").
Mia Sara plays Sloane without the specific detail that characterized the adolescent characters in Mr. Hughes's other films, and has therefore created a basically stable but forgettable character.
The New York Times reviewer Nina Darnton critiqued Mia Sara's portrayal of Sloane as "played without the specific detail that characterized the adolescent characters in Hughes's other films, and has therefore created a basically stable but forgettable character".
