Ben Johnson's performance as Alfredo is heroic, transcending his impossible character and delivering his arias with heart-rending plangency.
When I met Francescon, he was already in his seventies, with bright, guileless gray eyes and a drinker's nose, unmarried because of his impossible character.
Lars is a difficult, maybe impossible character, a holy fool and a martyr in waiting, a subject of mockery and a means of redemption.
Ms. Winslet looks lovely, even when wearing a smear of wrinkles and a little gray during the later scenes, but she's playing an impossible character.
Joan Littlewood remarked of Booth at the time: "At all hours you'd find him propping up the bar; a cynical, witty, impossible character, lanky and agile, with his own peculiar life, and acting".
Rochester may be an impossible character — dashing, wounded, cynical, wild and yet somehow redeemable — but for that very reason he is vital to both the wild romanticism and the sober good sense that have kept "Jane Eyre" spinning through so many generations and interpretations.
Numerous reviewers thought the Dr. Impossible character was the highlight of the novel.
Grossman admitted that much of the Dr. Impossible character was inspired by his feelings as a graduate student, "On the one hand, you're supposed to be really smart, and on the other hand, it's a humiliating experience.
William Bell's secret alias was a reference to Leonard Nimoy's character in the television series Mission: Impossible, whose character was also named Dr. Simon Paris.
It would be a mistake to think of him as an impossible, unpredictable character.
