I thought: 'OK!'" The word fills the room, delivered as it is in the sharp, ringing register of his character, which Kimmy Schmidt fans have grown to love.
"The added register of that character having to hide his true identity under a bold lie — so as to fool a girl — defined not only the genre, but its readers as well," he writes.
If Scibona fails in this – and he does, by a whisker – he can at least console himself that he is in good company: one of Woolf's flaws as a writer was that the internal registers of her characters often remained imperfectly differentiated, subjugated to the broader project of catching how the mind itself moves.
As a documentary filmmaker, I'm involved in this really long-form filmmaking, which requires so many elements and so many different angles in story form, because the stories are always told in a sort of intimate register, through characters and personal experience.
But an equally vivid register of Albrecht's character is his relationship with his squire, played by Johannes Stepanek.
More disappointingly, the patients Simjee encounters seldom register as characters.
In that hour we are cursorily introduced to a number of characters who register as TV-movie typical Americans.
Sometimes the plays register this fact in fundamental encounters of characters and ideas and sometimes in the sheer ordinariness in the dialogue (for example, the reflexive "God b'wi' you" in leave taking).
Elections workers had noticed a variety of inconsistencies, among them that several tried to register fictional characters, notorious criminals and dead celebrities.
Her separation anxiety registers so fully throughout the film that it should be listed in the cast of characters as the credits roll.
Cumming has a masterful command of the language, making it clear and comfortable on the ear as he subtly shifts register from character to character.
