Sentence examples for earlier character from inspiring English sources

Slaughter's Hound by Declan Burke (Liberties Press) is a welcome return to an earlier character, Harry Rigby.

Ms. Johansson's earlier character on Broadway was far more buttoned-up — the virginal teenager, Catherine, in Arthur Miller's "View From the Bridge," who was unaware of her sexuality and its effect on men.

Barely a year after The Human Stain, the triumphant closing of his trilogy of post-war America, Roth is back with a coda, a short book in which he resurrects an earlier character: David Kepesh, the man who wanted to turn into a breast and whose life history we heard in The Professor of Desire (1977).

Clay still bears similarities to the earlier character in Less Than Zero; according to one reviewer, "not all that much is changed.

Hergé developed a character named Tintin as a Belgian boy reporter who could travel the world with his fox terrier, Snowy—"Milou" in the original French basing him in large part on his earlier character of Totor and also on his own brother, Paul.

He does have some of the gentle klutziness of earlier characters like Fred Flintstone.

But there's also a huge difference from the earlier characters.

This bitter narcissism is a quality shared by many of Ms. Reza's earlier characters as well.

This final volume, which brings all the earlier characters together, is also the most profound of the trilogy.

Lessing's writing of the last three decades is full of ideas that her earlier characters would not have understood.

But whereas earlier characters might have expressed this state of mind through cringing and self-pity, Dobel, though nuts, is also tough minded, pragmatic and vengeful.