Flowing through gently rolling lowlands, the distinctive character of the Thames is pastoral and undramatic.
Northward from the Central Subregion, in the drier and flatter environment of the Yucatán Peninsula, the character of lowland Maya civilization changes.
The main river valleys have been converted into linear conurbations of concrete and asphalt; and, in order to accommodate the expanding tourist trade, many villages in the higher lateral valleys have taken on the character of lowland suburbs.
Palaeoenvironmental evidence for the character of lowland cultural landscapes during the last 2500 years in Britain is poorly understood, owing to a combination of an over-reliance on data from upland sequences, and because lowland mires are typically located in positions marginal to areas of settlement and agriculture.
Answer: Black Pete is a traditional character in Lowlands folklore, whose history stems back hundreds of years.
The book under review is the work of an accomplished scholar, reflecting a thorough grasp of theories of language contact, of Mayan language scholarship, and of the linguistic character of the Lowland Mayan languages, and geographically affected non-Lowland languages.
Upon exiting the lake, the Vistula assumes the character of a lowland stream, with its gradient decreasing to 0.03 0.02 percent in the middle reaches and to 0.02 0.002 percent in its final stages.
In contrast, the sympatric populations of Z. poliogaster in the highland of Nairobi shows the strongest differentiation in contact calls from the lowland Z. abyssinicus suggesting reproductive character displacement.
While the reader came to know these earlier people as distinct individuals, the characters in "The Lowland" seem to have been conceived as representative types with designated roles to play in a family melodrama constructed to underscore generational patterns of resentment and redemption, rootedness and freedom.
As this happens, the characters in "The Lowland" — with the qualified exception of Gauri — become fully human: driven not by one identifiable trait (like duty, anger or rebellion) but by a full spectrum of feelings, and capable not only of rage and vexation but also of forgiveness and hope.
