Sentence examples for given its characters from inspiring English sources

The complete "Man and Superman" has four acts and can run more than five hours, given its characters' tendency toward protracted discussions about class, religion, the sexes and other topics (leavened, fortunately, by volleys of wit).

Just to prove it isn't simply content to rip off Twilight at every turn, City of Bones has given its characters a dismissive Harry Poterm-style term for referring to humans.

For example, your efforts should skew more toward the visual, rather than content, for Pinterest, and you'll have to use bite-sized messages for Twitter given its character constraints.

But the show doesn't revel in angst as much as it does in the opportunities it gives its characters to conquer and improve.

As it is, the book simply gives its characters dialogue that will help illuminate the works' meaning.

Much like the Twitterverse, the novel scrolls on, by turns graphic or poignant, but it never slows enough to give its characters a shot at redemption or let its themes resonate.

Though "Goldengrove" is not especially eventful, Ms. Prose gives its characters much internal drama.

"90210" would give its characters — indelibly square no matter how much they misbehaved — a little credibility with younger viewers.

But "Doris to Darlene" does not give its characters any really fresh or powerful songs to sing.

Think of what Disney does, evoking our empathy by giving its characters human-like physical and behavioural features.

Except for Ms. Janney's monstrous mother and an Alzheimer's-afflicted grandmother (Polly Bergen), "Struck by Lightning" gives its characters no dimension.