**The Walking Dead spoilers ahead** The mid-season finale, entitled "Start to Finish" ended with the appropriately climactic storming of Alexandria, as zombies tore through the city and forced characters to scatter in search of shelter.
In an episode obsessed with forcing characters to face the truth, the most heartbreaking scenes, as ever, were between Barton and Margaret.
Murder is but one of the events that force characters to face up to themselves in Heather Birrell's Mad Hope, and, despite its title, Steven Heighton's The Dead Are More Visible featured stories that engage the living in all their quirky diversity.
But "Melancholia" is just one movie in a long line of arthouse films to use science fictional devices as convenient narrative machines that force characters to uncomfortable realizations -- about themselves, about each other, and about the societies they live in.
Some, however, like Basil (Alan Bates), the buttoned-up English writer in Zorba The Greek (1964), gradually became intoxicated by his life-force character.
The logic seemed unassailable: Once people believed that the onset of mental illnesses did not spring from supernatural forces, character flaws, semen loss or some other prescientific notion, the sufferer would be protected from blame and stigma.
Two statistical linearization approaches are used to determine the inelastic response statistics of wind-excited tall buildings with bilinear hysteretic restoring force character.
This study deals with analysis of stochastic crosswind response of tall buildings with bilinear hysteretic restoring force character at the vicinity of vortex lock-in speed where nonlinear negative aerodynamic damping is significant.
But as he was developing the character of David, played by Joe Seo, he realized that the spa was "forcing this character to be both [Korean and gay] in a way he's uncomfortable being," he said.
At some point, something forces the character to make a decision or take a course of action.
