Sentence examples for characters to avoid from inspiring English sources

Hollywood spends much time and money on designing these characters to avoid uncanny valley, except in horror movies.

There then follows a long list of the kind of insalubrious places and characters to avoid, such as "effeminate sodomites" and "lewd musical girls" – and among them are people who walk the streets at night.

Here the action is drawn from Austrian history, and the rise of Rudolph of Habsburg (the first of Grillparzer's characters to avoid guilt and tragedy) is contrasted with the fall of the tyrant Ottokar of Bohemia, so that Ottokar's fate is not presented as representative of all humanity.

Kusakabe said the Japanese-language cable was sent to Luddy written in Roman characters "to avoid misunderstanding which might be created by translation". Kusakabe, a former movie critic, said: "The way Japanese and foreigners look at Mishima is very different.

In Dungeons and Dragons, each character has a number of different abilities - things like dexterity, which helps a thief to pick locks and helps characters to avoid getting hit.

In the fourth Super Smash Bros. game, Samus in her power suit and her zero suit are listed as two separate characters, to avoid confusion with their move sets whereas in the previous game, Samus could access her zero suit by activating her final smash.

I will not forget what happened". Borthwick's words were particularly forceful because he has always been the kind of character to avoid controversy.

Parts of the screenplay - written by William Monahan and based on a novel by the Washington Post journalist David Ignatius - are said to have been specially adapted for Farahani's character, to avoid infringing Islamic rules on female modesty.

Every one of your instincts will tell you that the happiest possible ending is for the You character to avoid the long-term romantic commitment that the female lead wants while You maintain an open door with her sexually.

In moral theory, moral judgements need to have a universal character to avoid simply being charged with being a 'pirate's creed' (i.e. a normatively coherent code, but nevertheless not considered moral in a wider, societal context, see Beauchamp and Childress 2012).

By September, the general theme for the story had been established: the struggle of the main character to avoid compromising his principles as he progresses in life.