But the novel, play and opera made Marie — renamed Marguerite by Dumas and Violetta by Verdi — a cultural icon by imbuing her with a purely fictional trait: the willingness to sacrifice her own material comforts, and her most cherished lover, for the sake of that lover's familial honor.
She then teased Obama for not knowing a fictional character trait of people from her home state of Maine, a trait that she'd only just made up.
After arriving upstairs, participants were then asked to rate a fictional person on ten traits, including things like honest vs. dishonest, humane vs. ruthless, and so on.
Described as narrative fiction novel writing software, it includes a "suite of inspirational creativity features" to help authors during the process of writing a novel, such as mind-mapping, tools to help develop the personality traits of fictional characters, and an interactive thesaurus.
We used a fictional persona with unique biographical traits to minimize false positives.
This fictional virus combines the worst traits of smallpox, common cold virus, and a prolifically replicating insect virus, and comes seasoned with a genetic glitch that causes the self-mutilating disorder known as Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
Although Mr. Pendleton's uneven script has endowed Junius with all the traits common to fictional portrayals of narcissistic scenery chewers -- overweening vanity, mesmerizing charm, territorial paranoia and blazing physical energy -- they are here pushed firmly over the edge of madness.
Conservative strategists who came up with Holby City Woman seemed to have ignored others of the original's traits - the fictional Faye Morton had four ex-husbands (including two who died in mysterious circumstances), tumultuous workplace love affairs, and was shot in the back by a colleague wielding a crossbow.
The sincere belief that clothes make the man was a touchingly sympathetic trait of the fictional Gatsby.
Mills became known for wearing a lot of eye makeup in her scenes, to the point where it became a major character trait for her fictional personality.
Many famous men – from James Dean to Pete Doherty – could be said to show elements of the dark triad of traits, but perhaps the best fictional example is James Bond.
