Sentence examples for familiar personages from inspiring English sources

In this scene, and in several others, Mr. Smith shakes off the burden of his performance -- the nearly impossible task of creating, from within, one of the most visible and familiar personages of recent popular culture -- and locates his character not in history, but in a particular patch of time and space.

And Mr. Holmes's excitement at fusing long-familiar events and personages into something startlingly new is not unlike the exuberance of the age that animates his groundbreaking book.

It was here that we first heard of "the unreliable narrator", a personage now familiar from any number of book reviews or broadcast literary discussions.

Grains et issues was accompanied by Personage d'insomnie ("Personage of Insomnia"), which went unpublished.

A gossiping letter of our own friends is often interesting, because it relates to persons and things with which we are familiar, but tittle-tattle and scandal lose their zest when they concern unimportant personages many years dead, buried, and forgotten.

The chief personages of these wars, known as the Wars of the Roses—Henry Tudor, Richard III, the duke of Buckingham, Hastings, Rivers, Gray, and many more were very familiar to contemporary English readers.

What, then, of the personages involved?

The two personages size each other up.

There are also some reliably droll personages.

They are personages, beings, ghosts - they live.

Familiar face — very familiar.