Sentence examples for depicted characters from inspiring English sources

The word routinely used to describe Hopper's work, "loneliness," doesn't apply to the depicted characters, who are doing fine in their iffy ways.

During one idle moment — it was becoming a long night — Stringer started riffing about a pet theory of his, concerning cartoons that depicted characters named Howard.

Many of his cartoons depicted characters who were likely to be New Yorker readers, which is to say sophisticated urbanites who relish a witty lampoon of their own recognizable universe.

Throughout her career, Bharati Mukherjee has depicted characters who are exiles, immigrants or outsiders: characters caught on the margins between two cultures, between India and America, tradition and modernity, East and West.

In his earlier novels "Aloft" and "Native Speaker," Mr. Lee depicted characters who were emotionally reticent, who subscribed to an isolating doctrine of estrangement and escape — partly because of temperament, partly from personal loss and fear of further hurt and partly from an immigrant's sense of exile.

In fierce, magical works like "Black Tickets" (1979) and "Machine Dreams" (1984) Jayne Anne Phillips depicted characters torn between the dream of home -- "a two-lane road densely overhung with the deciduous trees of a more familiar world" -- and the dream of escape.

A richly depicted character negotiating the rigors of a compelling plot provides a great read.

To suggest that a writer cannot depict characters unlike themself is patently absurd.

The 5 P.M. hour was the first to be completed — movies so often depict characters leaving work.

A scene depicting characters trapped underground anxiously counting down their remaining hours of oxygen is even more unsettling.

20 artists from all over the world made sculptures out of 420 tonnes of ice depicting characters from comic strips.