The coldness of the novel's narration is worth emphasizing, because there is some evidence that it will be softened by sentimental readers eager for characters they can "sympathize" with.
The cast members have impressive voices, but the scene-stealers are the gigantic blue Sendak-style fish that gather under the bridge, hungry and eager, when one character announces his intention to jump.
During the climactic Harlem riot, a character eager to escape the hallucinatory chaos exclaims, "... let's get up on the hill.... Up with the respectable people!" HOWARD SCHNEIDER Rego Park, N.Y.
Drew Myers Drew Myers, a former Marine captain and president of Recruit Military Inc., a Cincinnati-based headhunter that has placed veterans in nonfranchise positions at Coca-Cola and General Electric, says his clients "are now eager to have character, work ethic and high integrity" in their employees.
But here, the character is eager to learn, eager to stay, willing to lie, cheat and steal in order to stay, right?
Still, writers wouldn't be eager to have characters do battle if viewers didn't respond.
JumpStart World is stocked with chatty characters eager to suggest a challenge.
At one point in the book, two characters, eager to make a quick buck, contemplate prostitution.
KRISTIN DAVIS, who was a yoga teacher before becoming an actress, had something of her polite, eager-to-please character.
In "5 Films," the characters, eager to enjoy what their phones help them do, inadvertently mess up their afternoons, bump into things, horrify themselves and one another.
