Sentence examples for modern character from inspiring English sources

But there is also something about cinema's essentially modern character that makes it vulnerable to fears of obsolescence.

"It's fun playing Rose, she's a modern character and incredibly enthusiastic about life which is sometimes quite tiring at 7am in the morning.

At times, even when dancing, Mr. Baryshnikov seems to be miming or rehearsing; he's playing the modern character who's playing Glinka who's playing his own younger self.

"Gladys Mitchell wrote about the independent woman long before that modern character was popularized by actresses like Katharine Hepburn," Ms. Rigg said.

I wanted to play a modern character of my own age; I'd been doing a lot of period pieces, and I was only 19.

For Berry, the deep problem standing behind all the other problems of industrial civilization is "specialization," which he regards as the "disease of the modern character".

Franzen's modern characters are distracted and semi-helpless.

It's marginal and modern; characters of varying ages swear, and women are shown in bed together.

The modern characters in "Possession" suffer from being too knowing about sexuality, not from being too loose.

He learned one valuable lesson — "avoid frocks" — and concentrated (except for westerns) on modern characters, often those under stress.

Jenifer Ringer and Nikolaj Hubbe made affectingly modern characters of the passionate young lovers in Sean Lavery's "Romeo and Juliet".