Sentence examples for mere character from inspiring English sources

But it's idle longing on the part of a mere character from life.

Some are mere character sketches; others read like barroom tales that would have been better off left unpublished.

Some first-rank choreographers (Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris) have been great soloists, but others (George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor) were mere character dancers.

Russell was a truly commanding and charismatic presence, filling the room like he came with extra dimensions unavailable to mere character players.

In 2002, in a copyright case before the German Federal High Court, it was held that Winnetou was no longer a mere character in a novel; he had become "the name for a certain human type, that of the noble Indian chief".

But golf, say researchers, actually reveals much more information and insight into players, and their likely behavior in business, than mere character judgments.

People who would be mere characters in other Urban Generation films step forward here as authors.

Then seeing him on The New Girl, trying to save a relationship, even one of mere characters on a show he liked hearing him say, "Anything beautiful is worth getting hurt for".

He said the war was not a struggle of mere "sectional character," but a "war of ideas, a battle of principles".

'Bridget Jones is no mere fictional character, she's the Spirit of the Age,' gushed Melanie McDonagh in the Evening Standard last week, in a piece heralding the arrival of the sequel to Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary.

Celia, a mere supporting character in "As You Like It" — now at the New Victory Theater in a sweet and sophisticated new staging for all ages — is so devoted to her cousin Rosalind that when Rosalind is banished from wherever they all live in ducal France, Celia insists on going with her.