Again and again, his books put these two ways of living in opposition: one character will be passionate, lusty, engaged, hungry, while the other will be austere, self-denying, detached, finding virtue in deserts and silence and small things.
In order to win their prize, they must battle other characters (opposition).
Aciman establishes his characters' opposition early, using it as a springboard for a nuanced exploration of identity and belonging.
One of the actor's greatest bugbears is when we discover that a part has been cast in complete opposition to the "character breakdown" put out by the producers.
This was in direct opposition to the character Gooding Jr. portrayed.
"Brave" creator and Oscar winner Brenda Chapman voiced her opposition to the character's transformation in an email sent to the Marin Independent Journal, where she said that the changes effectively contradict her original intent with the character, which was "to offer up a different kind of princess — a stronger princess that both mothers and daughters could relate to.'".
Elections kept happening, but there was only a glaze of competition; for the most part, the opposition candidates were docile, handpicked characters, because no one else was allowed to run.
The loggers-v-greenies story thread deals the cast a more difficult hand, as it did in Sheehan's previous Tasmania-set mystery, The Hunter – perhaps because it's tricky to humanise characters whose opposition is so well known that it can stray into caricature and ideology.
But other rebel actions spoke to different elements of the character of opposition fighting units in the mountains — including the mix of enthusiasm, inexperience and initiative that has in turns both endangered the rebels and at times made them safe.
The mystery surrounding the fighter's death has opened a new window among the rebels, loosely allied as the Free Syrian Army, at a time when uncertainty about the opposition's unity and character — in particular, the potential inclination toward intolerant or sectarian Islamist politics — has deterred the West from more muscular support for the cause of Mr. Assad's ouster.
