Sentence examples for marginal characters from inspiring English sources

Even the slightest gestures and the most marginal characters contributed to the unfolding of the drama.

"I'm kind of drawn to socially and psychologically marginal characters, and even characters marginal to the story," Giamatti says.

They're slightly shady, marginal characters, who existed in two or more worlds at once but ultimately belonged to none.

McAndrew sensibly trims many marginal characters, though the inevitable need for doubling is neatly handled by actors playing their antitheses.

Liao is also known for his book of interviews, "The Corpse Walker," which is made up of talks with Chinese prisoners and other marginal characters.

Up to this point, it seems to me, she has made her career out of playing highly individualistic, iconoclastic, marginal characters, characters with responsibility only to themselves.

There's the bathtub suicide scene of a marginal character, viewed from above drowned in a crimson sea.

The marginal character Owl-Eyes, who has been drunk for a week, can see clearly that Gatsby is putting on a show.

The story of that meeting is given to a marginal character who proves herself unexpectedly perceptive and outspoken on the matter of the promiscuous poet.

That view contrasts sharply with earlier theories that he had become a marginal character who served as a figurehead for the terrorist group.

Why has Messud chosen to introduce a marginal character whose world has genuinely collapsed, when the main focus remains a privileged circle whose only real disaster is that the launch of a literary magazine has to be postponed?