Sentence examples for delineate character from inspiring English sources

I'm given a small, slightly unfunny cartoon (the kind you might be tempted to stick on a fridge if you don't mind the social consequences), get utterly stuck on finding a name and when a rather overwrought passage of E Annie Proulx is presented as a model for how to delineate character, clam up entirely.

This was a true opera full of recitatives, choruses and arias that define and delineate character but, most importantly, is music-driven, not surprising for a young composer who grew up singing at the Met, but still.

The comic timing between Ms. Pellegrino and Ms. Doyle is perfect, and Ms. McKee knows that there are better ways to delineate characters than by giving them windy, emotive speeches.

Glendinning is the author of deft biographies of Swift, Trollope, and Elizabeth Bowen, among others, and in this novel she delineates character masterfully.

Hong delineates character with the lightest of strokes, and his extremely long, serene takes provide well-defined time and space for the vast emotional shifts of tiny moments to register.

Is there any better opening line to delineate a character and foreshadow a promisingly delectable situation than the one delivered by Sheridan Whiteside, The Man Who Came to Dinner?

With an emphasis on dancing rather than mime, and a swift tempo kept up in the pit by the conductor Alexander Sotnikov, there is little room to delineate a character fully.

The duo skilfully delineate each character, while the scene between pervy geography teacher Mr Long and former pupil Stacey, in which she turns him on with her well-remembered facts about glacial features and American export quotas, is memorably hilarious.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukFEW American novelists delineate their characters as adeptly as Chang-rae Lee. Chang-rae Lee

"A Ship Made of Paper," which takes its title from a song lyric about reckless abandon, is better equipped to delineate its characters than to manipulate them.

Steinhauer also has a tendency to delineate his characters with a few trademark idiosyncrasies, then repeat them over and over, to annoying effect.