Sentence examples for monstrous character from inspiring English sources

It was an event that illuminated the monstrous character of the entire campaign.

Not coincidentally, the actor playing this monstrous character looks like Hafez al-Assad — the man who ruled Syria for nearly thirty years, until his death, in 2000.

In Thomas More and Shakespeare, the king's scoliosis is used as a metaphor: his physical deformities revealed his monstrous character and reflected a life of acts "unnaturallye committed".

As Martha Baring, a neurotic widow who runs a Kentucky horse farm, Ms. Lange pulls out every acting trick from her well-stocked sleeve to imbue her monstrous character with some credibility.

But it was interesting to see Stanley Tucci admit that Norton was the model (or at least part of the model) for the monstrous character of Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games (BBC1, Friday).

Unlike Spacey, whose default mode of performance inclines to duplicity, sarcasm, and villainy, Plummer, with his hearty and worldly tone, brings an immensely empathetic twist to the monstrous character of J. Paul Getty.

Like Toni Collette, she imbues even monstrous characters with a cracked humanity.

She now returns for her first headline show, playing five monstrous characters.

If the monstrous characters in her videos are greedy, violent, gluttonous and cartoonish, her birds are magnificent in their plumage and given to mating.

This article considers the representation of monstrous characters in three Icelandic sagas, examining the influence that period, setting and genre have upon the nature of that presentation.

Both played truly monstrous characters – Stott as a serial sex offender, Norton as a kidnapper and rapist – though shot them through with vulnerability and depth.