Sanderson has built a world that leaps to life, a cast of varied characters and a vast history which slowly unfolds with the deepening story of Roshar.
It's a thrilling, multi-viewpoint ride, and while in lesser hands the vast dramatis personae might have become entangled and indistinguishable, Hamilton maintains the reader's interest in the cast of varied characters and invests the various plot threads with equal significance.
To the entrepreneurial subjects in this research, the meaning of success is a rich and diverse panoply of themes, and it is through the emergence of these themes from the data that considerable depth can be gauged of the varied character of entrepreneurs, and several subpopulations start to stand out.
Perhaps the best summary of his varied character and career is afforded by Hurn: "His staggering enthusiasm for the best of photography was infectious.
This business activity may be of a varied character.
Even within the same pages of Vorbemerkung, he said, "rationalizations of the most varied character have existed in various departments of life and in all areas of culture" [Ibid., 26].
If we, in all the regions and climates of the world, meet with a striking uniformity in the structure of the earth, we also, on the contrary, observe plants and animals of a most varied character scattered over its surface.
With all of these varied characters and settings, the movie risked looking like it was made of disparate parts sewn together.
Meg Murry, in short, was a departure from the typical "girls' book" protagonist -- as wonderful as many of those varied characters are.
