In turn, readers of historical fiction must accept that an historical person usually takes on a stronger, more sharply delineated personality than what is revealed in histories.
The pantomime tradition and folk-tale quality of the ballet show Mr. Martins's gift for delineating personality through movement (unsurprising since he was raised on the buoyant, warm characters of the Bournonville tradition in his native Denmark).
Captivated by the philosophical brilliance of that novel (and no doubt swayed, in the case of many male readers, by its chilly eroticism), Kundera's admirers were happy to accept its use of the existential code as a means of delineating personality; or, to put it in the terms of a more traditional literary criticism, they forgave the thinness of its characterisation.
The closed-circuit nature of advertising life exactly fitted Trevor's natural gift for delineating claustrophobic personalities.
The lyrics of this Fatboy Slim track do a good job of delineating the personality and attitude of the new breed of raver: "I don't remember fucking anything man/ I mean I have vague recollections/ And like a general feeling of happiness".
In modern personality psychology, the Five Factor Model is one of the most widely accepted comprehensive frameworks delineating the main personality dimensions (John et al, 2008).
It is an era, as Nathan describes it, in which fate too often feels accidental, personality can be reduced to gesture, and "coherence and order" are elusive: an era delineated in this ample novel with uncommon insight and perception.
CM+MOH patients experience increased psychiatric comorbidity, such as anxiety, depression, or personality disorders [3, 4], even if a cause-effect relationship still needs to be clearly delineated.
It delineated my credits.
Stations were assigned, tasks delineated.
