Sentence examples for conception of characters from inspiring English sources

Yet a mark of Godard's cinematic genius, and the aspect of it that appears most distinctive and most off-putting to this very day, is his conception of characters and of the performances that realize them.

But Dunkirk simply has a different conception of "characters" than most films do, as "identity" is limited to what the film's characters do on-screen no mon-screen noess.

But Dunkirk simply has a different conception of "characters" than most films do, as "identity" is limited to what the film's characters do onscreen no more and no less.

This may also be a reason that Shakespeare's conception of character changed.

Power, or Caro's understanding of it, also underlies his conception of character and structure.

As was typical of ancient authors, he had no conception of character as developing through the course of a lifetime.

High-feminine instead of fetishistically masculine, glittery rather than gritty, and daring in its conception of character, "Sex and the City" was a brilliant and, in certain ways, radical show.

"It's too big, too broad, too stuffed with competing storylines, whirligig digressions and the operations of authorial whim to permit of a continuous conception of character," objected Tim Martin in the Independent on Sunday.

Like many before him, Pamuk suggests that Shakespeare did much to shape the modern conception of character as embodying more than "a single, basic attribute", offering instead protagonists who are complex entities "shaped by conflicting impulses and conditions".

Such is the power of Racine's poetry (it is untranslatable), his conception of character, and his penetrating analysis of it, that it suggests the presence of Sophoclean "heroic humanism".

Though showing great sensitivity to environmental or sociological evils, such works fail to embody the high conception of character (as Melville describes it above) and are concerned mainly with externals, or reportage.