This seems strange to me; Bond is so perpetual a character that it's hard to imagine a world without him.
I aged faster than she did, but, like the best characters from our childhood, Alice remained a beacon, a perpetual reference.
"This is a perpetual part of Harvard.
If you study film a lot, you will probably notice the neo-realism that was once a reaction against the fascism of Mussolini, but now has come to typify Italian filmmaking; the honesty and gritty lack of heroism of the characters, and signs of humanity's perpetual struggle that characters tend to endure in the Italian depiction of life.
In the nineteenth century, the character's perpetual restlessness made him a Romantic hero.
But his performance as this uncomfortable man is spectacularly assured, his familiar wide-eyed amazement deployed cunningly to portray the melancholy befuddlement of the character, the perpetual unwelcome surprise of feeling neither here nor there.
Like other writers who grew up on the edge of the cultural ferment of the twenties — that "perpetual summer," as a character in one of her stories calls the period — Taylor, in her fiction, examines that older generation with a half envious, half critical eye: the vantage point of a younger sister watching her elder siblings get ready for a dance.
Like other writers who grew up on the edge of the cultural ferment of the twenties that "perpetual summer," as a character in one of her stories calls the period—Taylor, in her fiction, examines that older generation with a half envious, half critical eye: the vantage point of a younger sister watching her elder siblings get ready for a dance.
People have changed; with perpetual youth comes perpetual malleability: character isn't destiny, it isn't even fixed, and the only obstacles to dramatic goals are the weight of one's own past; that's why we've become transparent characters who seek to become ever lighter.
THOMAS BUNTING, the narrator of James Wood's first novel, is a character locked in perpetual adolescence.
