Rather than recreate Strauss's dreadful characters with some kind of intellectual and creative energy, this "Salome" seems to have ordered from a catalog of operatic cliches.
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and his "business partner", Mrs Lovett, Victorian penny dreadful characters, have little to commend them in human terms, but for reasons that can only be to do with their interesting non-vegan cuisine, they remain popular.
There were pretty dreadful stereotypical characters on some TV shows and that was about it".
Sonia, in the following extract, is a guide who has irritated Malcolm so much that she has started to compare her to some of Chekhov's more dreadful female characters.
The last pope was a great man, but he was also a weak administrator, a poor delegator, and sometimes a dreadful judge of character.
Some of the more loathsome characters – dreadful assistant Ellis, Julia's sullen stoner son Leo, Karen's politico boyfriend Dev, the lead actor in the musical, Michael Swift – were dispensed with a line, an off-hand remark, or, in Ellis's case, complete silence.
Let's hope Sunny's failure isn't an excuse for avoiding ethnic minority casting in the future…" Jaci Stephen from the British newspaper, Daily Mail was also negative towards the character, calling her "dreadful" and "awful".
And if a character's truly dreadful, why keep reading – or even writing?
You glory in your refinement, and your universal education; yet you maintain a system as barbarous and dreadful, as ever stained the character of a nation-a system begun in avarice, supported in pride, and perpetuated in cruelty.
