Sentence examples for describing a character from inspiring English sources

The manuscript shows, for example that after describing a character named Lord Osborne as exhibiting "carelessness" and "awkwardness" she went back and added "coldness".

"She was utterly composed," Ephron's younger sister Delia Ephron wrote in her novel "Hanging Up," describing a character she based on Nora.

Other writers, describing a character, sort that person's traits into categories, which they list in some logical order — for example, physical, psychological, and moral.

For example, rather than describing a character and then writing some dialogue, I might include the description within the dialogue, killing two birds with one stone, if you like.

The way he rattles off his complex past, as if it had all happened to another man, seems related to this; able to see himself from a distance, he speaks like a writer describing a character.

"Inventions" makes use of the kind of self-reflexive narration that's found in a story like Nabokov's "Recruiting," in which the authorial narrator, after describing a character he has observed, appears in the story and sits down on a bench next to the creation he has "recruited" for his own use.

He'll describe a character and then undescribe him.

It's hard to resist a playwright who describes a character as looking "like an ant".

4. Create and describe a character figure for the entryway to their rooms at home.

In my fifth novel, I described a character, a writer for a women's magazine, wearing "suede caged booties".

When Salinger describes a character's voice, it is to tell us that the man is a phony.