Sentence examples for fully developed characters from inspiring English sources

"The Pitmen Painters" has definite shortcomings: not much of a plot, not much in the way of fully developed characters.

Here we first learned of "flat" (quickly sketched in) versus "round" (fully developed) characters and how every book needs some of both.

Where the Miramax version eliminates many dramatic moments, reducing the film to a choppy series of physical gags, Mr. Chow's original features far more fully developed characters and an emotional undertow that gives meaning to the sometimes violent jokes.

But in tracing the impact of a godlike baseball player (the perfectly cast Daniel Sunjata) who declares his homosexuality, Mr. Greenberg winds up sacrificing fully developed characters and plotting to Ideas with a capital I.

If novels or short-story collections could be weighed strictly in terms of their components (fully developed characters, check; original voice, check; solidly crafted structure, check; serious theme, check) they might satisfy, but they would fail to enchant.

The same thing that makes any novel work: Interesting, fully developed characters; dialogue that is crisp or enchanting; more than a hint of poetry in the prose; and the basic — a compelling narrative.

Ms. Janney's nosy, meddlesome Cathy is the movie's most fully developed character.

The film's most fully developed character may be the pine-scrubbed downtown loft occupied by Chlo Sevigny's Laurel.

Though he is in the shadows where violence thrives, I saw Bobby as a fully developed character.

One change between the one- and two-act versions is the figure of Bea, who blossomed from a silhouette into a fully developed character.

Haack is the novel's most fully developed character, a drifter capable of both courage and cowardice, decency and hypocrisy, sentimentality and cold-bloodedness.