He emerged from this self-inflicted hazing process as one of the pre-eminent character actors of his time with a flair for writing and directing.
Although most of them had an eminent ruderal character, some phytocoenoses were typical from non-disturbed environments.
Jones's wife lived to be 97, and was described by Waddell in his Annals of Augusta County, Virginia as "a lady of eminent Christian character".
When writing and drawing are of high quality, when characters become real and adored, when they are seen and read in 30 or 40 countries and many languages — that's what you call pre-eminent.
The title "The Infinities" refers to a revolutionary theory promulgated by the novel's main character, an eminent mathematician with the heavily symbolic name Adam Godley.
They read like short-story collections with recurring characters, the Toploftys, the Eminents, the Richan Vulgars, the Gildings and the Kindharts.
"It was as if Tunney had stepped from the pages and was a Shavian character come to life," Michael Holroyd, the eminent Shaw biographer, said in a telephone interview, adding: "It was a magical relationship that allowed them to switch roles.
"The members of the RNA Society include some extremely strong characters, people who are among the most eminent members of the molecular biology community.
In it Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, The Monuments Men's only British lead character, plays a fictional English academic called Donald Jeffries, part of the MFAA frontline team led by Clooney's character, George L Stout – a real MFAA officer and eminent American art conservator.
But his crudely drawn American characters, so un-Southern in their rudeness, treat the eminent Dr. Hunter like dirt and seem to view his native Britain as some poky developing nation.
