But MacLíammóir had noticed that her bereavement had already changed this "dark and buxom character actress, usually bashful and diffident", into a strongly self-reliant personality.
But, reliant on personalities rather than issues (issues don't make very good puppets), it found itself faltering when Thatcher, Tebbit and the hard-faced characters of the 1980s were replaced by John Major, Paddy Ashdown and the less extreme politicians of the early Nineties.
Mr Brown believes the Fed is over reliant on the personality of its chairman while the European Central Bank remains obsessed by data on the money supply.
But I also find him absurd, because he doesn't see that he is criticising the politics of individualism from a platform entirely reliant on the personality cult he himself has zealously constructed.
The chatbot has purposefully been given a rather overfamiliar personality, including being very reliant on the use of emoji and gifs, which Hussey-Yeo says the startup's users absolutely love.
Moreover, we demonstrated that attitudes were less reliant on demographics than they were on personality factors such as openness to experience on a Kansas sample.
In Double Act and Twin Tales she gives each character her customary contemporary, spiky personalities with traits that aren't reliant on being part of a multiple birth family.
Pantani had already achieved vast popularity because of his unique style, wholly reliant upon do-or-die attacks in the mountains, and engaging personality - he used to take a guitar into the bars of Rimini and serenade local girls - as well as the capacity to fight back from a spate of crashes.
The following personality traits are associated with being successful in business: innovative, imaginative, creative, flexible, adaptable, reliable, responsible, self-reliant, and calculated risk-taking (Develi 2011).
Reliant Stadium, Sept. 11, noon.
Such a plan did not please Reliant.
