Sentence examples for concept of character from inspiring English sources

The hallowed concept of character was invented to seal off these contingencies.

In "The Concept of Character in Fiction," an essay from 1970, he discussed a figure in Henry James's novel "The Awkward Age".

Matthew Taylor, Blair's former head of strategy, now head of the RSA, made the excellent point that "the reason we find the concept of character difficult is because of class conflict in British society.

Right from the beginning of Mr. Hodges's career, the defining quality of his work has been its unearthly remoteness, a deep-space chill that seems to pervade both his imagery and his concept of character.

The "ethos," which later critics, including Aristotle (Poetics, ch. 6), valued so highly in his work, indicates a concept of character as an innate disposition, governing the actions and manifest in a person's outward bearing.

The two are locked in "a fabulous chase" that's part myth and part fact, given that the pursuer doesn't actually exist... Larrain's film is a delicate balancing act and, along with screenwriter Guillermo Calderón, he avoids both smugness and a sense of artificiality with a playful tone and a sharp, meta take on the concept of character and story.

The concept of characters making a mountain out of a molehill would continue with Seinfeld co-creator Larry David's next venture, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Fly Davies's design, a grey frame suspended over a trough of water, is barren in the extreme; it suits McDougall's visual concept of characters turning slowly through space, like broken figurines in an abandoned musical box.

(For the record, can I just say I fucking hate the concept of "characters"? Why does American entertainment lean so hard on characters? Pretty sure there are enough people in the world already without having to spend time getting to know some bored typist's imaginary friends).

The concepts of character and implicit equilibrium we propose here based on this new rationality assumption can better explain people's actual behaviors labeled as irrational by conventional game theory in the experiments of some paradigmatic games.

Krusty's religion had not been part of the original concept of the character, so Kogen and Wolodarsky decided to parody The Jazz Singer and establish that Krusty is Jewish.