Sentence examples for modicum of character from inspiring English sources

As a reader, I stopped having the patience to read mystery novels without at least a modicum of character development.

In these latter cases the dihapto acyl unit was ascribed a modicum of carbene-like character manifest through, in several cases, the observation of a tautomerization process to thorium enolate species.

"Kardashians," on the other hand, is by now a tightly stitched, fastidiously polished package, and while everything that happens feels staged and semi-scripted, it's still easier to sit through than "Eastwood" — there's a modicum of enjoyment in knowing the characters and anticipating the sitcom rhythms of their so-called lives.

Though his myriad gifts as a novelist lend the resulting story more than a modicum of suspense, his two central characters remain paper-and-paste constructions, assembled out of a bunch of outrageous anecdotes and devoid of any sort of coherent inner life.

Although a modicum of time is spent exploring the generally chilly evolution of Dalgliesh's character and his first stirrings of emotion toward a woman he meets here, not even that is allowed to slow down the business at hand.

Cassavetes's characters were bruisers: they had clawed their way into a modicum of prosperity but could never let up in the fight.

"Gracing this nothing character with her own profound warmth and tenderness as well as a modicum of conviction, Waters transformed Beulah into a knowing earth mother".

As always, the "Big Bang" writers find ingenious ways to achieve a modicum of happiness for their central quartet of male nerds while leaving intact their self-centered, blustering, essentially chauvinistic characters.