And what marvelous characters she gives us, particularly in LuLing's central narrative, with its Dickensian gallery of villains, healers, scholars and lovers.
These two marvelous characters were evil because they were super rich and super bored... and they kept sabotaging their relationship for pretty much the same reason.
Norton Juster reflected on the stories within illustrations, a subtlety that I experienced when I saw his images of Milo, Tock, the Dodecahedron or the rest of the marvelous characters in The Phantom Tollbooth.
I though he was a marvelous character and I still do.
The real Lombardi was a marvelous character — loud, God-fearing, brilliant, merciless, monomaniacal — and a great documentary subject.
Another regular, Paige Peterson, an actress, writer and illustrator, said something would be missing at Elaine's — "that shuffling, grouchy, marvelous character".
"A marvelous character," Finch said, summoning memories of Monsieur Irondelle, a fearsome war hero with a crimson Légion d'Honneur crest stitched into his lapel.
And indeed it's almost a shame that this marvelous character -- the longest part Moliere ever wrote -- has to yield up his relentless plot-devising to the human ache in his lonely heart.
This time, it was a movie horse that flipped over backward at Santa Anita last week before the filming of the HBO series "Luck," a marvelous character study of the industry that some optimists hoped would help attract new people to the sport.
He added, "Todd is a marvelous character to play because he could commit genocide, or find a cure for AIDS.
"No, I had four years with that, four seasons, and each year was a marvelous character," she said.
