He patterned his meek, henpecked television character of George Appleby after his radio character, J. Newton Numbskull, who had similar characteristics.
As a character, Meek is framed as tragic one minute, grotesque the next.
When the school first opened, many wanted to dress as a "sissy maid" – a meek, subservient female character.
She seems to change back to quite a meek and mild character very quickly, and only ever speaks rudely – never leaving an email trail.
"It Happened in Brooklyn" (MGM, $20): The majority of Sinatra's films from this period found him cast as a shy, meek and sweet character, as in this so-so 1947 musical.
Langdon's persona is often described as childlike; he plays meek and befuddled characters who find themselves buffeted by the winds of fate.
As Lawrence's Joy struggles to hold the family together while also building her business, Madsen's character is meek and beleaguered, many of the things Joy fights hard not to be.
And I glance at the John Updike poem that I keep above my desk, "Marching Through a Novel" where he likens his characters to meek foot soldiers blindly following his orders.
As with Mr. Dodin's production of "Uncle Vanya," seen at the same theater in 2010, the performances here often rise to an anguished intensity that defies the stereotype of Chekhov's characters as meek sufferers shrugging their way into oblivion, watching in quiet resignation as their chances for happiness recede.
Nora Helmer, fictional character, the once-meek wife of lawyer Torvald Helmer, who asserts her independence in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House (1879).
