He shares his wit with the audience (and a few favoured characters, such as Horatio), who thus are aware of his superiority over most other personages in the play.
In House, 13.7% answered "none"; of the remaining students, the favoured characters were "Cameron" (27.5%), "Wilson" (26.4%), and the lead character "House" (26.0%).
Perhaps packets of talent would be a more accurate description, packets or pockets, emptied out selectively over favoured minor characters, withheld from the hero.
Last month, the ministry adopted a new civics textbook that critics said favoured Israel's Jewish character over democracy as a value, and marginalised an Arab minority.
Ricky Gervais has cited the reality series Airport (1996) as the original source of inspiration for The Office – firmly rooting the genesis of this comic form in a decidedly pre-millennium idea of television; one that favoured slow-moving scenes and mildly eccentric characters over the high-octane, and higher-drama, American reality television that would come in the following decade.
Some explanation is called for, then, of the significance in justice of the particular character of one's favoured group definition.
The character Signior Opera, the image of the favoured castrato singer within the puppet show, is a parody of the foreigners who performed as singers, along with the audiences that accepted them.
Arsenewall!" (this, a reference to Lydon's favoured footer team).
In this instance, the saltwater intrusion destroyed the habitat for freshwater whitefish and created conditions that favoured saltwater species such as plaice – an environmental shock that drastically altered the character of the human fishing effort in this area [70].
The manner in which the closing track to Highway 61 Revisited mixes historical figures and fictional characters in a surreal montage owes a debt to the beat movement's favoured stream of consciousness, but you cannot help but be reminded of Eliot's own variety of allusions.
When character comic Catriona Knox confirms her autumn dates, you can make your bid to become her favoured stooge, who gets to perform cookery with a racist chef, finger-paint at nursery school with Prince George and improvise rap at a revivalist prayer group.
