Sentence examples for conventional characters from inspiring English sources

Eugène Ionesco's 1952 absurdist classic is a bit like that, too, ditching as it does conventional characters, psychology and plot in favour of rootless, puzzling moments of being.

But in person Mr. Lithgow, who has an equally long résumé of conventional characters and a sideline in making recordings for children, is disappointingly normal.

Playfully elliptical, without plot or conventional characters, the book sold two million copies and transformed Brautigan into a libidinous Mark Twain for the new counterculture: a distinctly American voice that was so of its moment that it had nowhere to go but into a time capsule.

To me, the Greek gods and goddesses became part of my 'fictional family' in exactly the same way as the more conventional characters.

Many of her characters exhibited modern-day sensibilities; more conventional characters in the novels would point out the heroine's eccentricities, such as wanting to marry for love.

Inspired by movies like Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi that present the story of exceptional places without too much concern for conventional characters or plot lines, O'Hare turned his lens on ground zero and the people who live and work nearby.

And the more conventional character treatment is just that: disappointingly conventional.

In place of language and conventional character portrayal, which is also undermined, are other kinds of artifice.

Directed by Anne Bogart, with the text adapted by her frequent collaborator, Jocelyn Clarke, the show at the Classic Stage Company is not a biography, nor is it a conventional character study.

The existence of similar figures of different size, or the conventional character of units of length, appeared self-evident to mathematicians of the period.

Both men were trying to develop a modern realistic drama, but neither had the power to break away from the type of artificial plots and conventional character types expected by theatregoers.