Sentence examples for notional characters from inspiring English sources

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.

The older Asher, searching for his true self, is a more notional character who never comes as clearly into focus.

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.

Gone, too, are the characters Sancho Panza and Don Quixote and the notion of a quest that they embodied; the play's landscape, with its clearly defined division between rich and poor; and the narrative characterizations of the dramatis personae, who are so radically pruned of story as to have become notional figures evoking a generalized barbarity.

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.