Throughout the nuptials, I played the dutiful role of "reluctant partner", a character that came quite naturally.
He has been turned into a retread of the anxious, dutiful Harvey Keitel character in "Mean Streets," when he needs to be a rat and the motor of the movie.
For Aickman, such macabre notes are just scene-setting; the real disturbance, and the comedy, lies in the proceedings of the Open Spaces and Cemeteries Committee, a subdivision of the town's council, to which our dutiful lead character, Oswald Crickmay, is assigned.
Many of his fictions, from "Blue River" (1991) through "For Kings and Planets" (1998), pit a dutiful, conscientious character against an unstable, brilliant one; others feature a hero who embodies this dialectic within himself, who is torn between yuppie pragmatism and dreamy irreverence, bourgeois ambition and adolescent rebellion.
Literary concessions — narrative clarity and catharsis, techniques as simple as moving a character from room to room — are an inheritance, a dutiful part of learning to please the reader.
Some contain a piece of paper bearing coded inscriptions, which the De Bankolé character dutifully folds up and swallows, washing down the clue with a gulp of espresso.
The film's title and the name of Ms. Leigh's character pay dutiful homage to Mr. Rohmer's "Pauline at the Beach".
Subsequent leading roles in films such as Billa (1980), in which he played a ruthless mafia don, and Murattu Kaalai (1980), in which his character, a dutiful milkman, saves a woman from the man she was supposed to marry, cemented his career as an action superstar.
Author and characters perform dutiful exegesis.
Rose by another name is Grace Hollywood is a-buzz with the prospect of Rose Byrne taking on the role of Grace, dutiful assistant to Jamie Foxx's Oliver Daddy Warbucksks character in Sony's star-studded remake of Annie.
