It was more the phrase than the character that stuck to Balcells; none of her writers saw her as a tyrant.
Lewis Carroll's "Mad Hatter" in his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a play on words based on the older phrase, but the character himself does not exhibit symptoms of mercury poisoning.
Like Bradbury, Delany picked up on the banality of the dialogue (in Delany's phrasing the characters are saying nothing meaningful), but Delany regards this as a dramatic strength, a prelude to the rebirth at the conclusion of the film.
"Blue's Clues" promotes interactivity, with its pauses for children to find the clues, and "Dora The Explorer" teaches short Spanish phrases while the character is on her adventures.
"We start making lists of phrases that the character would say, and hopefully from those we come up with a title," Shaiman said.
Secondly, certain characters used by Schram [ 8] were excluded from the analysis, because the phrasing of the character states was not apparent to us, therefore, we omitted these characters in our analysis.
Mr. Daniels, a commanding Rinaldo, dispatches virtuosic passagework with aplomb, elegantly bends lyrical phrases and shows the character's growth from callow hero to questioning man awed by life and love.
The addition of BLE in each base phrase to make another phrase reminded me of the character Mushmouth from the "Fat Albert" cartoons of the 1970s (the character of Fat Albert himself actually goes back much further in Bill Cosby's routines).
It is she as narrator who tells us that Cecilia's lady's maid Felicie has "a certain petite metaphysique de toilette": the elaborate phrase is suited to the character (French herself, naturally) but is also an authorial flourish.
Use the best phrase ever said by the character: "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" If you want, you can keep a notepad of the insults you make up.
