Multiple facets of character have long fascinated us in literature.
This type of attention to a lover's intelligence — and to those facets of character that fall under the auspices of intelligence and factor into respect, such as fairness, integrity, magnanimity, and sensitivity — is consistent with the way women novelists have long written about love.
But as identical-twin studies already confirm, genes in fact determine a lot, including many basic facets of character.
On the whole, the TCI is made up of twenty- facetsacets (12 facets of temperament and 13 facets of character) of which we examined only the genetically independent main temperamental factors, Novelty Seeking, Harm Avoidance, Reward Dependence, and Persistence [ 16].
But it was the tale as a religious parable and the many facets of its characters that appealed most to Mr. Hwang.
This urge grows stronger as the novel proceeds, resulting in increasing abstraction, a thinking about thinking that fails to direct light on the facets of the characters but dulls them instead.
You can feel it in the prolixity of his scripts and in the dark grooves of his pencilled notes: he wanted every screenplay to impart a moral lesson while illuminating the hidden facets of its characters.
A cast-limit of 10 dictated the necessity of doubling the parts of Theseus/Oberon and Hippolyta/Titania, and we were keen to create a logic for this that would resonate with our production and reveal new facets of the characters.
After the Joneses' imposture is revealed to the audience, which is almost immediately, Mr. Borte steps back to let Ms. Moore, icy and serene, and Mr. Duchovny, a master of genial smugness, stretch out and explore their surroundings and the facets of their characters.
