Rather, she was an independent woman who made her way in the world with power of mind, force of character, and determined ideas.
A few of the show's most exciting moments unfold in the minds of characters sitting idly at desks or in parked cars.
He probes the conflicted hearts and minds of characters who are Mormon believers and high Protestant skeptics, of an African-American nurse and the powerful Jewish man who becomes his patient, Roy Cohn, the former aide to Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
She drove to Mobile and then drove back again, her mind awhirl with the sort of not very interesting observations that so often pass through the minds of characters in unpublished fiction.
Often performers appear in half-shadows, casting the stage in a noir atmosphere while providing a setting for the minds of characters consumed by loneliness, violence and sexual desire.
It was true that even they, in private moments, had wondered whether it was wise to encourage teen-agers to enter into the minds of characters such as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett, who chop people up and bake them into pies and find this activity so exciting that they have sex with each other.
But few books about novel-writing provide such insights into the craft, or revel so joyfully in well-rendered fiction.Mr Wood identifies as "free indirect style" (also known as third person limited) the means by which an author both inhabits the minds of characters and supplies their perceptions with an eloquence beyond their ken.
In The Invention of Wings, the latest selection of Oprah's Book Club 2.0, author Sue Monk Kidd enters the minds of characters from different time periods, genders and races.
The use of classical mythology as an organising framework, the near-obsessive focus on external detail, and the occurrence of significant action within the minds of characters have also contributed to the development of literary modernism.
He put everything he knew as a composer of madrigals and as a church composer into the creation of a new kind of narrative art form that told a story from within the minds of characters.
