What Dana Delany is doing, then, every day on the set of "Body of Proof" is character building.
Abstinence courses tell youngsters to resist what they may feel are demands to give up their virginity, but the classes counter with their own brand of pressure, which celebrates chastity as proof of character.
The current trend for treating bullying and mendacity as proofs of character represents not a "growing strength of national character," but an appalling lowering of standards.
So with proof that characters from the Ramayana and Gita experienced mental illness, you might think the country would be more open and proactive towards those battling these disorders.
In a funless, shriekless, ecstasy-proof staging, characters talk at each other across the great divide of the Paper Mill stage, not in Sidney's study; Michael Anania's setting is another sad story.
It's good news because these are the best of characters, proof that someone, even if only a character on a TV show, can be good and act with integrity, regularly and repeatedly, in their home and with their family, as well as on the largest of political stages.
In Death Proof, McGowan's character is swiftly - gruesomely - dispatched.
Lucian Freud, the subject of a huge retrospective at Tate Britain, in London, is living proof that national character still counts in art, globalization or no globalization.
She supposed she was looking for proof of his character, support for the thesis that he was worth loving, and possibly ruining her life for.
Trump makes this claim with unrivalled swagger, but citing his campaign's lack of a pollster as proof of his character, while fascinating, is utterly disingenuous.
By Peter Schjeldahl Lucian Freud, the subject of a huge retrospective at Tate Britain, in London, is living proof that national character still counts in art, globalization or no globalization.
