Sentence examples for seminal characters from inspiring English sources

Like the novel, its characters were equally cultural milestones, described by a reviewer as "seminal characters" (of American fiction).

That itinerant period gave birth to Hankin's two seminal characters Emmett and Sometimes Jones (the lead character in his Academy-Award-nominated short, Solly's Diner), recurring characters in his many video and film shorts.

Instead, being a novel rather than a treatise, the book attempts to breathe life into a few seminal characters.

She called the new work "Ruined" and gave its seminal character the name Mama Nadi.

His only feature film so far, Vantage Point, was a brave attempt to introduce some unorthodox aesthetics into the modern thriller form, but he seems like a risky choice to relaunch such a seminal character.

But rather than "hagiography in action," as took place in Argentina, Mr. Babej said, the "degree and nature of the adulation of Obama, the iconization, if you will, reflects that this is a seminal character coming together with a seminal event, the first black person becoming president, at a moment in time that everyone recognizes as important".

The seminal role of the supervisor.

Trayvon Martin was a seminal case.

From 2004-08, Spader won three Emmy awards for his seminal role as shameless attorney Alan Shore in "The Practice" and "Boston Legal," making him the only actor to win consecutive Emmys playing the same character on two different series.

In many ways, and as a foil to Frank Semyon, Velcoro is a seminal noir character: Bad guy masquerading as good until an event that lets loose the beast.

Carnap has not much to say about meaning and reference of mathematical expressions in his seminal "The Methodological Character of Theoretical Concepts" (1956) but discusses these issues in his "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" (1950).