Sentence examples for disagreeable character from inspiring English sources

But he still succeeds in making his disagreeable character magnetic.

He conveys the same rancid hipness that infects Hank Moody, Mr. Duchovny's disagreeable character in "Californication" on Showtime.

If Jeff, with his boyish, wide-eyed stare and blank expression, personifies a spoiled contemporary man-child, Mr. Maguire makes this essentially disagreeable character almost sympathetic.

The most disagreeable character is Dottie (Monica Horan), a religious busybody who's perturbed that Sylvie is dating someone of Mexican background.

Powell viewed this Widmerpoole as a mean-spirited and disagreeable character, and "had his name down for really quite a long time as a name I was going to use".

The Social Network being a prime example: emotionally disengaging, populated by mostly disagreeable characters (privileged young men fighting over more privileges), an unhappy ending and lots of dialogue (reportedly 3 hours stuffed into a 2 hour movie).

With their cynical attitudes and frequently disagreeable characters -- epitomized by the narcissistic, egocentric Larry Sanders of Garry Shandling -- such series are still considered risky when it comes to wooing mainstream viewers.

A high-toned concept combined with disagreeable characters and a jaded worldview provided the formula for Bruce Norris' bracing retort to "A Raisin in the Sun," "Clybourne Park," the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that became a huge hit at the Mark Taper Forum before heading to Broadway and winning the Tony.

But Juno struck me as a sickly sweet irritation with a deeply disagreeable central character and a soundtrack so twee it made you want to watch all four Die Hard movies back to back in an effort to flush out the taste of geek.

The company discusses, in a parody of Austen's style, how disagreeable her characters were.

Franklin grew up in isolated bush regions of New South Wales that were much like the glum setting of her first novel, My Brilliant Career (1901; filmed 1980), with its discontented, often disagreeable pioneer characters; yet, she was passionately attached to these regions.