Sentence examples for proper character from inspiring English sources

Courts ruled that he was not of proper character to seek election.

He is a proper character, rather than a two-dimensional sketch, hastily drawn up as a sop to political correctness.

Alongside you and your brother, you'll also have a dog called Riley who, Palacios asserts, will operate as a proper character in the game.

The background: Gabriel Bruce has been recommended to us by a friend who tells us he's "pretentious, classy and a proper character".

Howard became a proper character once his fiancee Bernadette came along, she proved herself just as self-doubting and crazy as he was, and they fell in love.

I thought: 'There's a hole in the market for proper character actors again.'" Directors such as Tarantino, James Gray and Steven Soderbergh concurred.

When, toward the end, a character steps to the edge of the stage to announce that she has "the best metaphor" for "the values that define price," your instinct is to cry out, "Please, not another metaphor!" The show does have proper characters, based on real people.

And neuroscientists themselves are proper characters: for example, ​this one likes to dress like Drag Elvis.

Now here's something you probably didn't know about Judi -- and something her mostly prim-and-proper characters wouldn't approve of.

A proper London character.

There is no plot of a conventional kind, in which the hero has a desire whose thwarting compels him to take transformative action; the journey here is wholly interior, a systematic paring away of everything that would make him a proper, fleshly character.