Sentence examples for determining character from inspiring English sources

Hence arises what Schiller called the "non-determining" character of art, as opposed to the "determining" character of oratory; and hence the justifiable suspicion of "political poetry"—political poetry being, proverbially, bad poetry.

That drew me increasingly to the power structures, and I couldn't get away from the fact that Hitler was the determining character".

Did they pinpoint the most important factor in determining character, perhaps declaring it family, friends, school, culture, financial hardship or academic pressure?

A few documents have been preserved that attest to the initiation of carefully chosen persons who were made to undergo tests and ordeals in accordance with psychosomatic criteria borrowed from physiognomy (the art of determining character from physical, especially facial, traits).

Instead, he insisted that "We have two factors determining characters: heredity and the modification during development" [Morgan 1910a, p. 477].

So ask questions that determine character.

She was a very determined character".

§ 3872.5 Testimony at hearings to determine character of lands.

He was a very intelligent player, and a determined character as well.

Setting is of great importance in Émile Zola's novels, for example, because he believed that environment determines character.

With the tutors, you will discuss how characters reveal themselves through speech and action, how plot may determine character and how character may influence plot.