Sentence examples for idea of character from inspiring English sources

A cold eye is cast on character - the very idea of character - in all Conrad's novels.

Fines and arrests back up the rightwing idea of character failure; George Osborne sleeps that bit more easily.

(Mr. Dancy doesn't have much to play besides nervousness and exhaustion; the show's idea of character development is to make him a collector of stray dogs).

Such awkwardness aside, however, the idea of character education as the key to success is now generating serious political buzz on both sides of the Atlantic.

A veteran engineer who's been making runs on Rust Belt tracks for three decades, Frank is less a character than a collection of bits and pieces pointing to an idea of character.

Malick's very idea of character and action is as radical as his vision and, for that matter, as his philosophy, and that comes through in even the barest attempt to summarize the plot.

This neatly underscores the idea of characters trapped in a set of motions that were choreographed before they were born.

The formative days of opera were charged with an anxiety about the idea of characters suddenly bursting into song (perhaps still an issue for the artform today).

But it started with the idea of characters," Miuccia Prada said backstage, claiming that when she called up a bunch of actors — that's folks like Tim Roth and Jamie Bell — they all just happened to say "yes".

I love the idea of characters having lives outside the book; it makes them equal to the writer and the reader, rather than the author talking down to them, like puppets".

"Mad Men" has always explored the idea of characters getting what they think they want and still being unhappy.