Sentence examples for examples of characters from inspiring English sources

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It's the first of the play's beautifully drawn examples of characters trapped in their own static worlds, incapable of self-knowledge.

If I say that a character seems connected to consciousness, to the use of a mind, the many superb examples of characters who seem to think very little bristle up (Gatsby, Captain Ahab, Becky Sharp, Jean Brodie).

Examples of characters who emote 30 seconds at a time include the Postal Service employee extolling the virtues of Priority Mail flat-rate boxes ("If it fits, it ships"), the lonely Maytag repairman, the three amigos whose ardor for Kellogg's Raisin Bran Crunch and Raisin Bran Extra cereals gets them into comic predicaments and the over-enthusiastic pitchwoman for Orbit gum.

"What we did was gather several million examples of characters, compared them all, clustered them, then built an algorithm that would say, 'This looks like an A,' even though it had never seen that font before".

Literature may be strewn with examples of characters who've been made more sensitive and thoughtful by their difficult upbringings (keep that in mind, too), but there are also the likes of Beatrix in Jonathan Coe's The Rain Before it Falls.

Jon Wilde of The Guardian observes this characteristic in a number of British TV comedy creations of the late 20th and early 21st centuries: Captain Mainwaring, Victor Meldrew, and Peep Shows Mark Corrigan are all examples of characters "whose blinkered view of themselves is forever in sharp contrast to how they are perceived by the world".

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In The Television Companion (1998), David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker described the story as "one of the best examples of character-driven drama from this period of the series' history".

The Guide to Character Annotation [69], with examples of character types commonly encountered in the fish systematic literature, was also provided to the curators.

Commissioner Gordon, Pa Kent, April O'Neil, and Uncle Ben are all examples of great characters who motivate and influence superhero characters in comics.

It's a shining example of character development.

"This case is a beautiful example of character assassination from the school district up to the district attorney," he said.

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