Sentence examples for mean in character from inspiring English sources

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I mean in character".

Six weeks later, during a meeting with SNL showrunner Lorne Michaels in LA, Fallon says Michaels asked him: "'Jimmy, do you wear wigs?'" and Fallon said, "'Oh, I do this to my hair.' I wasn't going to say Kate Beckinsale, but I said, 'I spike it up,' and he goes, 'No, I mean in character, do you wear wigs?

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"Alexa, what does 'female in character' mean?" "In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest unit of the writing system of any given language".

When Baldwin called Stowe less a novelist than an "impassioned pamphleteer," he meant, in part, that her characters don't seem capable of selfishness as well as self-sacrifice, or of pettiness and jealousy along with piety and wisdom.

Learn what they truly mean: In this use, Character is the sum of qualities shown up in a person or group, moral or ethical strength, and the description of a person's attributes, traits and abilities.

It could also be grouped, very loosely, with the music show "Glee" and the theater show "Smash," except that "Bunheads" gets at what performance really means in its characters' lives rather than using it as a kind of artificial sweetener to stimulate the fantasies of the audience.

He is a character — I mean, in a Victorian novel.

Making the role all the more complicated was that Mr. Ledger's character is meant, in a way, to be a Dylan twice removed.

Little attention is paid to the emotional inner lives of the characters — which means, in blunt terms, that you don't feel terribly much for anyone, especially for the heroine Natasha, now played by newcomer Denee Benton with style but precious little emotional depth.

ALAFAIR: Wait, Lisa, you mean not every character in your books is based on me?

Even down to those onlookers, this is far more character-driven than anything Marvel has done, and I don't mean "character-driven" in the vein of, say, "Thor: Ragnarok," a romp that tried oh-so-hard to reinvent the wheel via canned, quirky humor.

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