Sentence examples for contradictory characters from inspiring English sources

In a world where citizens are bombarded with information, people form impressions quickly, based on sound bites, and these brief impressions tend to oversimplify and misrepresent our complicated and often contradictory characters.

Aside from his skin color, he could be the hard-jawed, laconic lead of a generic Western, straying onto the film set of "Unforgiven" — a set crowded, like the pages of this novel, with richly contradictory characters.

I read the book when my mother gave it to me to keep me occupied on a long-haul flight, and it was the first time I realized just how complex and contradictory characters (and adults, for that matter) could be.

Binoche is a contradictory character.

He was a complex character, a contradictory character.

Maurice's was an involuted and contradictory character.

He was a "highly contradictory character - perfect for a novel".

Dahl was a contradictory character, courageous, generous and hard-working but also crotchety and domineering.

Mr. Homitzky understands New Jersey's contradictory character, and presents it as sometimes tumultuous juxtaposition.

Yet, through her, Parini conjures into being a difficult, contradictory character animated by his emotional fragility.

He was, like all the most interesting people, a complex and contradictory character.