Sentence examples for engaged characters from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, unlike many braver and more engaged characters in these fictional annals, they survive to tell their tales.

It occurred to me about halfway through A Whistling Woman that one of the things we were witnessing was its author's own fantasy of intellectual life; that it consists of a set of permanently engaged characters, whose lives are concerned entirely with the inner trial of their beliefs and theories.

Fraser claims that this attempt to remain normatively neutral or even critical of normativity is incompatible with the politically engaged character of Foucault's writings.

Nickelodeon's preschool offerings are known for engaging characters mixed with eat-your-broccoli educational messages; one hit, "Ni Hao, Kai-Lan," aims to teach children some Chinese.

Rohinton Mistry (1995) Mistry has been compared to Dickens with good reason: he is masterful at handling a sprawling cast of engaging characters and adept at conveying the sweep of a teeming city.

It's a page turner: David choreographs a cast of engaging characters through a fast-moving narrative that explores the sobering consequences of a damaged childhood and the fragility of the family unit.

The various plotlines are adroitly woven into an eye-poppingly complicated whole in this sharp, unexpectedly funny police procedural with a cast of engaging characters, not least the maverick Ihaka himself.

With minimalist art, muted colors, engaging characters and a dynamic and varied layout of art and text, "Odd Dog" presents a ridiculous story that will appeal to dog lovers everywhere — as well as fans of subversive art in the style of Jon Klassen ("I Want My Hat Back").

Publishers Weekly: "Ebullient prose, engaging characters, lively imagination, illuminating details -- Thomas is an original, and her novel is consistently entertaining".

Kathleen J. Rothen and Beverly Langston identified the work as one that "subtly speaks to a child", with "engaging characters and fast-paced action [that] make it readable".

"(It's) an engaging character drama about people put under great pressure," Haug added, stressing it "doesn't aim to reflect the current geopolitical situation in a realistic way".