Sentence examples for describe characters from inspiring English sources

We use the phrase "cartoon cutout" to describe characters who lack the rich individuality of well-rounded literary creations.

If you demand meat-and-potatoes songs that describe characters, situations and events, "Phantom Moon" will seem maddeningly indirect.

I have heard writers describe characters taking over as if they literally started marching across the pages in the direction of their whims.

So, to pick an example at random, the Common Core says a third grader should be able to "describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events".

Whereas the ethos of the kings' sagas and of the legendary sagas is aristocratic and their principal heroes warlike leaders, the sagas of Icelanders describe characters who are essentially farmers or farmers' sons or at least people who socially were not far above the author's public, and their conduct and motivation are measurable in terms of the author's own ethos.

Barth's first two novels, The Floating Opera (1956) and The End of the Road (1958), describe characters burdened by a sense of the futility of all action and the effects of these characters upon the less self-conscious, more active people around them.

Amber and Kyle are both really well described characters as well.

It describes characters that represent the realization of our fears of the future.

Like his other novels, it is a work of great violence, describing characters of unbridled instincts and passions.

Many poorly described characters are dispensed with far too easily.

The applicability of described characters of a certain species to those of a related species was questioned [39].