Palmistry, also called chiromancy or chirosophy, reading of character and divination of the future by interpretation of lines and undulations on the palm of the hand.
Elsewhere we read of a character's "cash register face" or of a woman using "a loud and artificially genial tone as if she were speaking to an armed high school student".
Brilliant, blessed with a photographic memory, the father was also a quick read of character, able to charm even the most cynical of men.
The author recollects a dental visit in which, once the gas had taken hold, "a great yellow world sped by me with the speed of a cannon-ball, yet deliberately enough so that I could read, in characters of flame … the figure 1,000,000".
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In doing so, however, Mr. Updike gives the reader a decidedly warped reading of the characters in Shakespeare's play.
There are directors who do more stylized acting than others, but all of the best ones, I think, still do a very minute psychological reading of the characters.
Mr. Buscemi, who plays one of the Dude's bowling team members, Donny, said, "I remember reading the script for the first time, and reading this character of Donny, and for most of it thinking, 'I don't want to play this part.' " Of the film's shoot, Mr. Goodman said: "It's the most fun I ever had working on a film.
This is argued to be due, in part, to a more mature reading of the character's lines from Sylvia Anderson, who provided Penelope's voice from the first episode of the Thunderbirds television series.
One of the film's stars, Barbara Niven, echoed this sentiment saying that after reading the character of Rebecca she knew she had to play the part.
