Sentence examples for modern characters from inspiring English sources

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".

Ripley has become one of our great modern characters, and Highsmith seems to be a writer who knew our ambivalence before we did.

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

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

"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.

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".

It forms the centerpiece of Moscow City, a sprawling financial district that will inject a new modern character into this ancient, frenetic city.