Sentence examples for frontier character from inspiring English sources
The few permanent settlements today have a weathered, frontier character: tin roofs, rusty vehicle parts, satellite dishes.
Perhaps it even harked back to the frontier character of Australia, where Newson marshaled his ambition and talent and escaped the clutches of a parochial life.
Guizhou has the frontier character of other southwestern plateau lands: rough topography, difficult communication and consequent isolation, and many ethnic minority groups.
Long periods of non-Han rule and the late onset of significant migration to the area have given Liaoning a frontier character.
It was that Hidalgo County was a place whose frontier character, swarming with cheap Mexican labour to clear the desert scrub and the palm forests in the valley of the Rio Grande, had been given a reassuring Anglo face.
Hickok is buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, near Calamity Jane, Preacher Smith, Seth Bullock, and other celebrated frontier characters who died in the vicinity; the reenactment of Hickok's killing and the capture and trial of McCall is a popular tourist spectacle.
The next day I set out on my mini-Ketchikan tour in a misty rain, climbing hilly downtown streets crammed with frontier characters, serene viewpoints and enough photo ops to keep me busy for a couple of hours.
Musical parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic appears as the Banana Man in the episode "The New Frontier"; the character was originally supposed to voiced by Jonathan Katz before Yankovic was chosen after Katz was unable to.
For instance, Mordecai Richler's rollicking Solomon Gursky Was Here (which I just read) includes a 19th-century Jewish character named Ephraim who's a macho, hard-bitten, frontier type of guy.
The journey in "Battlestar Galactica" is born not of the urge to explore strange new worlds but of the need to survive; space isn't the final frontier for these characters — it's the last chance.
The individualistic and activistic attitudes in Protestantism stressed in camp meetings agreed with the character of frontier life and eventually pervaded the religious outlook of rural America.
