Sentence examples for familiar character from inspiring English sources

The hearings took up their familiar character.

The character of the game was familiar, even if it lacked a familiar character.

Chromatic, harplike swirls, fluid chordal figures and alluring bent notes showed the koto's more familiar character.

He is a familiar character in the narrative tradition of older boys leading younger ones astray.

Craig shook up Bond's familiar character, reinvented him as an action man.

The only familiar character was Paper Boi, who appeared as a panelist discussing trans issues.

Anyone can be astonished by the way an actor reconfigures a familiar character, not least the omnipotent author.

The other recurring motif is Yu's poking at the specific fantasies cherished by geekdom, imagining familiar character types and discovering that they, too, are trapped inside simulacra.

With his blue-collar accent and feisty physicality at odds with the shuffling movements of old age, Mr. Strauss vividly nails a familiar character type.

She will seem a familiar character to many readers here not because she was a historic figure, but because she has become unsteady, forgetful and diminished.

Likewise, the cast are mostly old hands at Ayckbourn's work, their broad performances threatening to become caricatures of the writer's familiar character types.