One set of concerns has to do with the everyday governance of the community; the other, with the permanent shaping of the character of the people.
The shaping of human character is preeminently — overwhelmingly — the task of parents, schools, religious institutions and civic groups.
But Ms. Clayburgh's shaping of the character was utterly and unmistakably her own, just as surely as its impact on female movie audiences was universal.
A local paper dubs them "The Swiss Family Lester". A tragic ending awaits, though Boyle does little in the shaping of his characters and their story to build toward it.
The etch hole designed to be the shape of character "C" instead of conventional square or wall type etch hole.
It is often set to music and accompanied by context-specific body language, and must aim to fit the shape of characters' mouths as they are speaking.
What it does offer is our recent national past rendered in the shape of characters so expertly drawn they feel like old friends.
Mr. Zhou's team wrangled endlessly: how to cope with the homonyms that are rife in Chinese; how to indicate the four tones of Mandarin; whether to use a Cyrillic, Japanese or Roman alphabet, or to invent a new Chinese alphabet based on the shapes of characters.
Due to the complex shape of characters, the length of line segments from a character is much shorter than the length of chemical bonds (Figure 6(b)).
The drug called Charlie Sheen will be sold in the shapes of characters from "Two and Half Men," like Flintstones chewable vitamins.
Intrinsic factors involve the actual shape of characters and include features such as case, width, weight, stroke modulation, form groups, serifs (projecting features at the end of strokes) and slant.
