Sentence examples for conflicted character from inspiring English sources

Add in the fact that he has been nominated for an Academy Award ("Revolutionary Road"), is currently starring in a bravura one-man show off Broadway ("Mistakes Were Made") and finished a season as a vividly conflicted character in a big cable series (HBO's "Boardwalk Empire"), and his days of landing unnoticed are over.

As in her earlier work, awkward political issues bristle at the edges, such as the black families who have achieved some success finding themselves at odds with the resentful Latino families undertaking a vain search for the same advantages – and Jay, increasingly out of his depth in a powder keg situation, remains a satisfyingly conflicted character.

She's played with sinewy determination by Isabelle Huppert, an actress at her formidable best when making her audience sympathise with a morally conflicted character, and at the start of White Material, she hitches a ride on one of those overloaded African taxi vans by hanging on to the ladder at the back, the veins in her arms throbbing, her face set boldly against the onrushing wind.

Cage is a very sensitive and conflicted character.

Although Satan displays an evil and unscrupulous personality in "Damien", he is portrayed in later episodes as a thoughtful, sensitive and often deeply conflicted character.

His portrayal of Boromir in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings brought the necessary gravitas to a brave yet conflicted character.

From his first novel, "Elsewhere, Perhaps" (published in 1966), to his most recent, "Judas" (2014), Mr. Oz depicted the emergence of Israel as a vibrant, if imperfect, society reflected through the lens of flawed, often conflicted characters.

Enough with those finely wrought stories in which conflicted characters come to slow realizations about their fates; there's clearly more money to be made in the advice business.

The complexity that has to be carefully treated in the design process is largely due to the multi-criteria and conflicting character of the functional and performance requirements.

The universal peace model, used to justify the use of force, does not represent the conflicting character of society.

The variance makes sense, as the very nature of these metrics changes as a function of the addition of new data partitions with varying degrees of supporting and conflicting character information.