Its notional characters are given only a wash of personality and psychology.
Eighteen years ago, "Twin Peaks" gave us the thrill of artfulness, black humor, weirdness, and mystery combined with the letdown of meta-shaggy storytelling and notional characters.
It's Hughie who bears the brunt of the crueler aspects of Irish history, and he seems notional, a character in a story.
The characters are notional; they are not felt presences.
This discussion seems to imply a sort of unitary character to the words, whether notional or otherwise, and this eventually leads to a movement toward a kind of akhaṇḍa-pada-vāda ("the doctrine of partless words") in the Vākyapadīya of Bhartṛhari.
Rogers's historical synthesis is exciting, admirable, and alive; his attempt to make his characters' private lives resonate is clumsy, notional, and dull.
The RBC case is the CFTC's biggest by notional trade value, the agency said.
(There is of course no ambiguity about who the lesser, not-hot characters are meant to be, and they aren't Emily and Ben; the latter's own notional dishevelment is incidentally signalled by being ever so slightly unshaven).
This is because characters whose feelings are supposed to be at stake are blunted, dumbed-down caricatures of notional human beings, rather than sharply etched epitomes of human behavior.
It would be easy to see in Butcher's Tree a sort of notional Surrealism, but the logic here is not dream-logic, and the spaces inhabited by Chen's strange characters are not identifiably dreamspaces.
